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The acronym for the causes of WWI - MAIN, name the four causes.
What is militarism, nationalism, imperialism, and alliances
Germany’s use of this naval tactic, which sank ships without warning, angered Americans.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
This kind of fighting involved soldiers living in muddy ditches for months.
What is trench warfare?
President Wilson’s plan for peace after World War I was called this.
What are the 14 Points
This new form of communication connected Americans nationwide through music, news, and entertainment.
What is radio?
These young women challenged traditional norms with shorter hair, shorter skirts, and freer behavior.
Who are flappers?
This 1929 event caused panic as billions of dollars in wealth vanished in a few days.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
Although the New Deal helped ease suffering, it did not fully end the Great Depression; this global event finally did.
What is World War II?
Roosevelt tried to add more justices to the Supreme Court to protect his New Deal programs in this controversial plan.
What is court packing?
President Roosevelt’s plan to help America recover from the Depression was called this.
What is the New Deal?
This event in Sarajevo sparked the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This secret German message encouraged Mexico to attack the United States in exchange for lost territory.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
This Tennessee native became a World War I hero after capturing 132 German soldiers.
Who is Alvin C. York
During World War I, many women took on jobs in this sector to support the war effort.
What are factories?
This organization was proposed in Wilson’s peace plan to prevent future wars.
What is the League of Nations?
This movement saw millions of African Americans leave the rural South for Northern and Midwestern cities.
What is the Great Migration?
This baseball player’s home run record made him one of the biggest sports heroes of the 1920s.
Who is Babe Ruth?
The 19th Amendment, passed in 1920, gave women this right.
What is the right to vote?
Many people bought stocks with borrowed money, a risky practice known as this.
What is buying on margin?
This natural disaster turned millions of acres of farmland into dry, dusty wastelands.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Many homeless families built these makeshift communities on the edges of cities.
What are Hoovervilles?
This program hired young men to plant trees, build parks, and improve the environment.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
The U.S. stayed out of the war at first because many Americans believed it was a European problem. What was this policy called?
What is neutrality or isolationist
President Wilson said the U.S. must fight to make the world “safe for” this ideal.
What is democracy?
This general led the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe.
Who is John J. Pershing
This government agency created propaganda to increase public support for the war.
What is the Committee on Public Information?
The U.S. Senate refused to join the League of Nations because many feared it would do this.
What is draw the U.S. into future foreign wars?
African Americans left the South largely to escape this form of discrimination and violence.
What is racial segregation (or Jim Crow)?
This silent film star became one of the first international movie celebrities.
Who is Charlie Chaplin?
This fear of communism and radicals led to arrests and deportations in the 1920s.
What is the First Red Scare?
This economic policy, meaning “hands-off,” led to little government regulation of business before the crash.
What is laissez-faire?
Many Dust Bowl migrants traveled west to this state in search of farm work.
What is California?
During the Great Depression, unemployment in the U.S. rose to about this percentage.
What is 25 percent?
This law protected bank deposits up to a certain amount to restore public confidence.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
This belief that a country’s military should be powerful and ready for war was a major cause of World War I.
What is militarism?
American banks had loaned large sums of money to this group of nations, motivating U.S. involvement.
Who are the Allied Powers?
This African American unit was celebrated for bravery in combat under French command.
Who are the Harlem Hell Fighters
Americans practiced this by conserving food and fuel voluntarily to help the troops.
What is voluntary rationing
After rejecting the League of Nations, the U.S. returned to this traditional foreign policy.
What is isolationism
This major Northern city became a center of Black culture during the Harlem Renaissance.
What is New York City?
This pilot became a national hero after flying solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
This 1925 Tennessee trial debated the teaching of evolution in public schools.
What is the Scopes Trial?
Farmers produced too many crops, and factories made more goods than people could buy, leading to this economic problem.
What is overproduction?
This region of the United States was hit hardest by the Dust Bowl.
What is the Great Plains?
This president believed in “rugged individualism,” or the idea that people should solve their own problems without government help.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This agency built dams and provided electricity to rural areas across seven states, including Tennessee.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
This intense pride and loyalty to one’s nation contributed to tensions among European powers before the war.
What is nationalism?
This 1915 event killed 128 Americans and turned public opinion against Germany.
What is the sinking of the Lusitania?
As head of the U.S. Food Administration, he encouraged voluntary rationing and “Meatless Mondays.”
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This Supreme Court case ruled that freedom of speech could be limited during wartime.
What is Schenck v. United States?
This European treaty officially ended World War I but set harsh penalties on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The Great Migration led to new opportunities in these types of jobs found in Northern factories.
What are industrial jobs?
Radio and movies helped create this, a shared national way of life centered on entertainment and consumerism.
What is popular culture?
These laws limited immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe.
What are the Immigration Quota Acts?
This type of institution failed when too many people withdrew their money at once.
What are banks (or bank failures)?
The Dust Bowl caused many families to abandon their homes and become known by this nickname.
What are “Okies”?
When World War I veterans demanded early payment of their bonuses, Hoover sent the Army to evict them from Washington, D.C., in this event.
What is the Bonus Army March?
This New Deal program provided jobs building roads, bridges, and public buildings, and supported artists and writers.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?