World War One
What event sparked World War I in 1914?
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinan
What does ACLU stand for?
What is the American Civil Liberties Union?
What year did the stock market crash, marking the start of the Great Depression?
What is 1929?
What event brought the U.S. into World War II?
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Who was president during the Great Depression and WWII?
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
What U.S. policy kept America out of the war until 1917?
What is neutrality?
What controversial 1925 trial did the ACLU defend in Tennessee?
What is the Scopes “Monkey” Trial?
What was the name for the shantytowns that sprang up during the Depression?
What are Hoovervilles?
What countries made up the Axis Powers?
What are Germany, Italy, and Japan?
What was the name of FDR’s radio speeches to the American people?
What are fireside chats?
What intercepted message pushed the U.S. closer to war with Germany?
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
What group re-emerged in the 1920s promoting white supremacy and nativism?
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
What natural disaster hurt farmers during the 1930s?
What is the Dust Bowl?
What was the U.S. program to supply allies with war goods before joining the war?
What is Lend-Lease?
Who became president after FDR died in 1945?
Who is Harry S. Truman?
What was the name of President Wilson’s peace plan after WWI?
What is the Fourteen Points?
Name one group that the ACLU defended during the 1920s.
What are immigrants, labor unions, or people arrested under the Sedition Act?
What was FDR’s series of programs to help recover from the Depression?
What is the New Deal?
What was D-Day and when did it happen?
What is the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on June 6, 1944?
What policy promised U.S. help to any country fighting communism after WWII?
What is the Truman Doctrine?
What treaty officially ended WWI and punished Germany harshly?
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
What act allowed the government to arrest people for anti-war speech during WWI and the Red Scare?
What is the Espionage or Sedition Act?
Name two New Deal programs and what they did.
What are CCC (jobs for young men), WPA (public works jobs), or Social Security (retirement income)?
What two Japanese cities were bombed by the U.S. to end the war?
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
What program helped rebuild Europe after WWII and stop the spread of communism?
What is the Marshall Plan?