Great War
Acronym used to remember the causes of the Great War.
What is M-A-I-N
What is the Red Scare?
On Black Tuesday, the stock market crashed. What is a market called in which stocks are losing value?
What is a Bear Market?
Name for FDR's radio speeches
What is a Fireside Chat?
What two changes did Congress make to the Neutrality Acts between 1939 - 1941?
What is Cash and Carry / Lend and Lease?
What is the Great Migration?
Period of Black cultural expression; Jazz, poetry, literature and art
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Homeless citizens moved into makeshift communities of shacks/shelters known as...
What is a shantytown? (Hooverville)
New Deal agency that employed young males in outdoor projects, sent wages home to families
What is the CCC? (Civilian Conservation Corps)
What Native American tribal language was the basis of a secret code that helped with the war in the Pacific
What is the Navajo language?
Citizens paid 3/4 of the war bill by buying these
What is War Bonds?
This form of payment provided convenience to consumers but also led to hight rates of debt
What is the Installment Plan?
Name of Great War veterans that marched on Washington in 1932; President Hoover used force to remove them.
What is the Bonus Army?
New Deal agency that built and manages 49 dams on the Tennessee River watershed
What is the TVA? (Tennesee Valley Authority)
List a breakthrough development by scientists during the war other than the atomic bomb
What is sonar, radar, penicillin, pesticides?
Woodrow Wilson's 14th Point; an internation peace keeping organization the U.S. would never join
What is League of Nations?
The 18th Amendment outlawed alcohol but made society more dangerous because of the rise of what
What is organized crime? (mafia, gangsters, Al Capone)
This action by President Hoover helped provide jobs and continues to provide hydro-electric power to people in the region.
What is the Hoover Dam?
New Deal agency that provides monthly retirement payment to citizens who have paid into the system during their working career
What is the SSA? (Social Security Administration)
N.O.W. is to women as the ________ was to Native Americans.
What is A.I.M.? (American Indian Movement)
Who was acting POTUS while President Wilson was recovering from his stroke?
What is his wife (Edith Wilson)?
Biggest silent movie star of the 1920s OR the decades greatest hero for flying solo across the Atlantic
What is Charlie Chaplin or Charles Lindbergh?
The top economic advisor to FDR that encouraged the government to spend their way out of the Great Depression.
What is John Maynard Keynes?
1930s boxer who fought in the final scene of the movie Cinderella Man
What is Jimmy Braddock and Max Baer?
Name of the guest worker program arranged between America and Mexico
What is the Bracero Program?