WWI
What major issue led the U.S. to join WWI?
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
What economic trend, marked by the increased purchasing of material goods, defined the 1920s?
Consumerism
Shantytowns during the Great Depression were called what?
Hoovervilles
Who created the New Deal?
FDR
What event brought the U.S. into WWII?
Who was the president during WWI?
Woodrow Wilson
Illegal bars during Prohibition were called?
Speakeasies
The overproduction of consumer goods caused high unemployment rates which led to the ________________ of consumer goods.
underconsumption
What act created retirement income?
Social Security Act
What act allowed the U.S. to supply Britain with weapons during WWII, while still remaining neutral?
Lend Lease Act
The U.S. helped form this organization, but did not join it.
The League of Nations
What new technology helped to create a common national identity in the 1920s?
Radio
What world event brought about the end of the Great Depression?
WWII
What program insured bank deposits?
FDIC
Why did Truman decide to use the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
To avoid a costly ground invasion
The rejection of the League of Nations by the Senate showed that Americans wanted to return to this policy.
Isolationism
Who is the famous poet associated with the Harlem Renaissance?
Langston Hughes
What made buying big items easier in the 1920s?
Buying on credit or "installment plans"
The CCC undertook projects building
Parks and camps
What battle was the turning point in the Pacific theater?
What major ethnic group migrated to the American north during and post-WWI?
African Americans
Which terrorist group used violence and intimidation to "preserve traditional American values" in the 1920s?
Name the five main causes of the Great Depression.
Overproduction, Underconsumption, Stock Market Crash, Wealth Disparity, and Banking Crisis/Panic
What New Deal program regulated the Stock Market?
SEC
Where did the D-Day invasion take place?
Normandy, France