Events
What was the main flaw that led to the Hindenburg Disaster?
The Hindenburg was filled with Hydrogen instead of Helium making it extremely flammable.
What do the 5 letters in M.A.N.I.A stand for?
Militarism, Alliances, Nationalism, Imperialism, Assassination
Who was assassinated to launch the world into WW1?
Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand
What is prohibition?
Prohibition is the banning of manufacturing, selling, and transportation of Alcohol.
Who was the President who created the League of Nations?
Woodrow Wilson
What was the Dust Bowl?
The Dust Bowl was an area in the Midwest that suffered from drought during the 1930’s and the Great Depression.
What major countries made up the Central powers?
What major countries made up the Allied powers?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire
Russia, France, England, Later USA, Italy
Who was a known Temperance Movement Supporter and would destroy the contents in bars with a hatchet.
Carrie A. Nations
Why were the 1920’s nicknamed the Roaring Twenties?
The 1920’s were nicknamed the Roaring Twenties because of the United States victory in WW1, The booming economy, and the ability to mass produce goods.
What president introduced the New Deal?
President FDR
Who was president during the 1929 Stock Market crash?
President Herbert Hoover
What's was the Telegram sent from Germany to Mexico that got America to join WW1? What did it say?
The Telegram was the Zimmerman Note and it tried to get Mexico to go to war with the USA.
Where did Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand come from, Who assassinated him, and where was the assassin group from?
Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand came from Austria Hungary. He was assassinated by the Black Hand from Serbia.
How did the assembly line change car manufacturing?
It cut the average time of building a car from 12 hours to 2 1/2 hours and drastically cut the price.
Who was Miriam "Ma" Ferguson?
Miriam "Ma" Ferguson was the first female governor of Texas who pardoned civilians for violating prohibition and held a firm stance against the KKK.
Why did 43,000 people march to Washington DC in 1932? What did the want?
The 43,000 people were WW1 veterans and their families demanding their service bonus checks they were owed for being underpaid during WW1.
What's the name of the ship that was sunk by a German U-boat and had 1200 people including 128 Americans on board?
The Lusitania.
Where were these people from?
King George the 5th
Georges Clemenceau
Tsar Nicholas the 2nd
Woodrow Wilson
England
France
Russia
USA
Who famously was convicted of Tax Evasion and died in Alcatraz in the 1920's?
Al Capone
Tell me 3 programs passed in FDR's first 100 days in office.
The Civilian Conservation Corp
Banking Reform (Bank Holiday)
Repealing Prohibition
Stock Market Securities Act
Emergency Relief
What is the president that was famously "killed by his wife" and his staff was responsible for the Teapot dome scandal. What was the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Warren G Harding and the Tea Pot Dome Scandal was the US secretary of the interior took the Navy oil reserves and sold them to oil companies for bribe money.
The landscape of the world changed after WW1, name 3 countries that disappeared, 3 that changed, and 3 that were created.
Disappeared- Ottoman Empire, Serbia, Austria-Hungary
Changed- Germany, France, Russia
Created- Czechoslovakia, Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
Who is Grigori Rasputin & how did he gain favor with the Russian Tsar and his family?
Grigori Rasputin was a Russian mystic who gained favor with the tsar and his family because he convinced them he could heal his youngest son who had a condition where you sweat blood.
How did Prohibition lead to the rise of organized crime?
Loopholes in Prohibition legislation allowed Mafia to continue to make and "sell" liquor untaxed.
Tell me 4 ways the Treaty of Versailles economically devastated Germany after WW1.
limited military to 100,000 men
Had to pay Reparations for the war
Lost the Rhineland and industrial zones
Took away Germanys Air force
Took away Germanys major ports