CATEGORY 1: ROARING 20S
This 1921 law restricted immigration based on national origins
What is the Emergency Immigration Act?
This 1929 event was caused by excessive buying on margin and speculation
What is the Stock Market Crash?
This December 7, 1941, event led America to enter WWII
What is the Pearl Harbor attack?
This leader's totalitarian control affected all aspects of Soviet life.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
This 1949 military alliance was formed against communism
What is NATO?
This cultural movement celebrated Black arts and literature in New York
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This environmental disaster devastated farmers during the Great Depression
What is the Dust Bowl?
This policy shifted to active global involvement after Pearl Harbor
What is U.S. isolationism?
This event eliminated Stalin's perceived enemies through widespread persecution
What is the Great Purge?
This senator led anti-communist investigations in the 1950s
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
These three things became central to American entertainment and consumer culture in the 1920s
What are radio, cinema, and automobiles?
This president relied mainly on voluntary private sector action during the Depression
Who is Herbert Hoover?
These two European events preceded U.S. involvement in WWII
What are the fall of France and the Battle of Britain?
These economic plans aimed at the rapid industrialization of the Soviet Union
What are the Five-Year Plans?
This 1948-1949 event demonstrated the U.S. commitment to containing communism
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This author of the Harlem Renaissance explored themes of identity and social justice
Who is Langston Hughes?
This New Deal program provided jobs and infrastructure improvements
What is the Works Progress Administration?
This process began after Pearl Harbor to prepare the nation for war.
What is military mobilization/draft?
This agricultural policy led to widespread famine under Stalin
What is collectivization?
This law provided veterans with education and housing benefits after WWII
What is the GI Bill?
This economic condition, along with unemployment, accompanied the post-WWI consumer spending
What is high inflation?
These two programs, established by the New Deal, still provide a social safety net today.
What are Social Security and unemployment insurance?
This secret project developed the first nuclear weapons
What is the Manhattan Project?
This tool was used by Stalin to promote a strong Soviet state image
What is propaganda?
These preparations reflected Americans' fear of nuclear war
What are civil defense drills and bomb shelters?