WW 1
Nationalism, Imperialism, and Militarism are three of these major forces that led to WWI.
What are the main causes of World War I?
This act instituted the draft in the U.S. during WWI.
What was the Selective Service Act?
This musical and cultural movement flourished in Harlem during the 1920s.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
This day in October 1929 marked the beginning of the stock market crash.
What was Black Tuesday?
Hoover’s 1932 government loan program to banks and businesses.
What was the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)?
FDR’s radio broadcasts aimed at calming the public were called these.
What were Fireside Chats?
This heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne was assassinated, triggering WWI.
Who was Archduke Ferdinand?
This U.S. board coordinated industrial production during the war.
What was the War Industries Board?
This illegal industry expanded as a result of Prohibition.
What was organized crime?
These three economic problems helped trigger the Great Depression.
What are overproduction, wage stagnation, and credit dependence?
This tariff act worsened global trade during the Depression.
What was the Smoot-Hawley Tariff?
This New Deal agency built dams and modernized the South.
What was the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)?
This alliance included Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria.
What were the Central Powers?
This wartime movement saw African Americans migrate from the South to Northern cities.
What was the Great Migration?
This generation of disillusioned writers included Hemingway and Fitzgerald.
Who were the Lost Generation?
These institutions collapsed as people defaulted on loans.
What were banks?
This nickname was given to shantytowns that symbolized Hoover’s inaction.
What were Hoovervilles?
This New Deal act provided pensions and unemployment insurance.
What was the Social Security Act?
This 1915 event, in which 128 Americans died, helped push the U.S. toward war.
What was the sinking of the Lusitania?
These weapons transformed the nature of WWI battles.
What are machine guns, poison gas, tanks, and trench warfare?
New technology like radios and cars contributed to this postwar condition.
What was the economic boom?
This environmental disaster led to massive migration from the Plains states.
What was the Dust Bowl?
Hoover believed in this approach over direct federal aid.
What is volunteerism?
This program provided jobs for young people in conservation projects.
What was the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)?
In this intercepted message, Germany encouraged Mexico to attack the U.S.
What was the Zimmerman Telegram?
This postwar agreement blamed Germany and forced reparations.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
Mass media and pop culture in the 1920s especially influenced this group.
Who were the youth?
By the early 1930s, this percentage of Americans were unemployed.
What is 25%?
During the Depression, these two groups were especially marginalized and excluded.
Who were African Americans and women?
This group of critics included Huey Long, Dr. Townsend, and Father Coughlin.
Who were opponents of the New Deal seeking more radical reforms?