Roaring 20s
Slang term for women who broke from tradition in the 20s
Who are flappers?
The term for the day the US stock market crashed
What is Black Tuesday?
The German policy of attacking any and all ships using U-Boats
What is Unrestricted Submarine Warfare?
Meaning "Divine Wind", the Japanese practice of suicide bombing using planes
What is kamikaze?
Churchill's name for the political/ideological divide between communist and capitalist countries in Europe
What is the iron curtain?
The amendment which banned alcohol in the US
What is the 18th Amendment?
An environment created by Americans over farming the Great Plains in the 1930s
What is the Dust Bowl?
The archduke whose assassination triggered WWI
Who is Franz Ferdinand?
The last major German offensive of the war
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
The Supreme Court case that officially overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and its "separate but equal" doctrine
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The term for disillusioned American writers who felt scarred by WWI
Who are the Lost Generation?
The building built during the Great Depression that created jobs and gave Americans hope
What is the Empire State Building?
Wilson's plan for a just and lasting peace after WWI
What are the 14 points?
Both cities destroyed by atomic bombs
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
The USSR's version of NATO, a mutual defense agreement group made up of communist countries
What is the Warsaw Pact?
How the Kellogg-Briand Pact failed
It lacked enforcement mechanisms
Name one change from the 1st to 2nd New Deal
1) more social welfare benefits
2) stricter controls over business
3) stronger support for unions
4) higher taxes on the rich
The date of the armistice ending WWI
What is November 11, 1918?
Name one way that Stalin changed the USSR's economy
What are industrialization and/or state takeovers of farmland?
The American plan to rebuild Europe after WW2
What is the Marshall Plan?
The name of the Supreme Court case which upheld the Espionage Act (using the analogy of shouting “fire!” in a crowded theater)
What is Schenck v. US?
FDR's strategy for combating a hostile Supreme Court by adding more justices
What is court packing?
Name all five points of MANIA
What are Militarism, Alliances, Nationalism, Imperialism, Assassination?
Name all 5 D-Day beaches, as well as which nation was responsible for each
Utah, Omaha - US
Gold, Sword - UK
Juno - Canada
Name all four Yalta Conference provisions
Allies split Berlin
Allies split Germany
USSR joins war against Japan within 3 months
USSR guarantees self-determination for captured countries