The 1920s
U.S. foreign policy followed after WW1.
What is isolationism?
Severe economic downturn that occurred worldwide.
What is the Great Depression?
Year that World War 2 began and ended.
What are 1941 and 1945?
Policy with goal of resisting the spread of Communism.
What is containment?
President who strapped cushions to himself and hit people with sticks for fun.
Who was Teddy Roosevelt?
Two major inventions that had major effect on American life in 1920s.
What are the automobile and radio?
Spending more money than is received.
What is deficit spending?
Event that started WW2.
What is Hitler invading Poland?
The two actual wars fought during the Cold War.
What are Korea and Vietnam?
Man who was never elected to the office of president or vice-president, but served as President.
Famous scientist who developed the theory of relativity.
Who is Albert Einstein?
FDR's plan to address the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
WW2 Allies
What are the U.S., Great Britain, Soviet Union, and France?
Supreme court ruling that outlawed segregation of public spaces and schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This is where government gets all its money from to spend on government programs.
What are taxes?
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
President who received most blame for the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
WW2 Axis Powers
What are Germany, Italy and Japan?
What is the Great Society?
Since the Civil War the federal government has continued to ____________.
What is grow?
Best trumpeter of all time.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
Two reasons why some opposed the New Deal.
deficit spending, didn't help poor enough, growth of federal government
Name two dictators who rose to power in Europe in the years leading up to World War 2. (You must also state which country they led)
Stalin(Soviet Union), Hitler(Germany), Mussolini(Italy), Franco(Spain), Tojo(Japan)
Give 2 main components of Reaganomics.
What are cutting taxes and limiting government spending?
Give 2 reasons why it is important to know history.
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