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WW1
The 20s
The Great Depression
WW2
Cold War
100
An intense feeling of patriotism
What is nationalism?
100
This Amendment outlawed the sale and use of alcohol
What is Prohibition?
100
Caused by poor agricultural practices and drought
What is the Dust Bowl?
100
Lightning fast warfare practiced by Germany
What is blitzkrieg?
100
Divided Berlin from 1961-1989
What is the Berlin Wall?
200
The sinking of this ship killed 128 Americans and Roosevelt called it "murder on the high seas"
What is the Lusitania?
200
Radios, cars, refrigerators and other large goods were easier to purchase
What is increased use of credit
200
Huge withdrawals by customers and failure by businesses, farmers and others to pay back loans
What were Bank Failures?
200
The form of government in Germany, Italy and Spain starting in the 1930's
What is facism?
200
This was the goal of the US in regard to stopping the spread of Communism
What is containment?
300
The Ottoman Empire, Austro-Hungary and Germany
What were the Central Powers in WW1?
300
A symbol of the additional freedoms women were afforded in the 1920's
What are flappers?
300
Stocks lost 40% of their value, $14 Billion disappeared and the previous year's gains were all lost
What is "Black Tuesday"/Stock Market crash?
300
An official ban on trade with specific countries
What is an embargo?
300
Winston Churchill made this term about the splitting of Europe between Communism and Democracy
What is the Iron Curtain
400
The communication between Germany and Mexico asking Mexico to attack the US
What is the Zimmerman Note?
400
This "trial of the century" involved the teaching of evolution in a school in Tennessee
What is the Scopes Trial?
400
This caused production to decline and the workforce was diminished
What is a drop in consumer spending?
400
This program allowed sale, lease, transfer or exchange of arms and supplies to friends of USA
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
400
The US Economic program that helped rebuild Europe after the end of WW2
What is the Marshall Plan?
500
Payments made by a defeated country to pay for the damage they created
What is reparations?
500
The industry greatly affected after WW1 by loss of markets and having too much product to sell
What is agriculture?
500
Increase costs on goods imported but pissed off our trading partners
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff?
500
As Germany gained more countries -Europe, Britain and France kept saying it was okay.
What is appeasement?
500
US should support free people who were resisting takeovers by armed minorities
What is the Truman Doctrine?