Gilded Age
What did they use to travel West?
What is the Transcontinental Railroads
What caused the great depression
what is overspeculation
what is smoot-hawley tariffs
what is bank failures
Name a dictator
Who is Joseph Stalin
Who is Adolf Hitler
Who is Benito Mussolini
Why did the Korean War start?
What is to stop communism
Banned Chinese workers from immigrating to the US
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
What happened on October 29th, 1929?
What is stock market crash
What happened on December 7, 1941
What is Pearl Harbor
To avoid conflict and get supplies to West Berlin they launched
What is Berlin Airlift
Who feared that immigrants would take jobs from native born Americans
What is Nativists
caused by drought and poor farming practices, resulted in millions moving from the Great Plains to find economic opportunity in California
what is the Dust Bowl
Helped the US government raise funds for the war
War bonds
convicted Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for selling national secrets to the Soviets for which they were executed
What is Rosenberg Trials
Some lawmakers took what to pass laws that benefitted big businesses.
What is Bribes
Families continued to lose their homes and moved to
what is Hoovervilles
Communicated to citizens how they could support the war
What is the Office of war Info
the U.S. offered military aid to foreign countries to prevent the threat of communism
What is Truman Doctrine
•the federal government could break up monopolies
What is Sherman Antitrust Act
What does FDIC stand for
What is Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
was issued and placed Japanese Americans in internment camps that often were overcrowded and had poor conditions
What is Executive Order 9066
Jonas Salk created a vaccine for
What is Polio