1920s
The price of the this car fell from $850 in 1908 to $290 in 1924 (almost 1/3 of its cost making it more affordable for the working class)
What is the Model T?
THIS group marched on Washington in hopes of getting an early bonus that was promised to them for THIS
Who are Veterans? What is for their service in WWI?
"A Day which will live in infamy" MATCHES THIS Date (Month, Day, Year) AND THIS Location
What is December 7, 1941 AND What is Pearl Harbor?
singed executive order 9066; interning american citizens and immigrants due to fears of a 5th column that never came to fruition.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
This was the name of a series of arrests (without warrants) and deportations of radicals (Italians/ Eastern Europeans) and was led by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer
Thousands were arrested and hundreds were deported
What are the Palmer Raids?
Also remember the Sacco and Vanzetti trial of Italian anarchists accused of robbery and murder
THIS President used THESE weekly addresses to the nation to communicate about the Great Depression. His first one was 1 week after his inauguration.
Who is President Franklin D. Roosevelt? What are Fireside Chats?
This is the amount of days in between dropping atomic bomb #1 and atomic bomb #2 on Japan
What is 3 days?
Believed in volunteerism over assistance from the federal government.
Who is Herbert Hoover
This trial was known for representing the divide between traditionalist and modernists in regards to whether evolution should be able to be taught in the classroom.
What is the Scopes Trial?
This is how high unemployment reached by 1932.
What is 25% unemployment?
"Double V" Campaign was started by THIS group AND stood for THIS
What is the "Double V" Campaign started by the NAACP AND stood for "victory in the war/abroad AND victory at home with racism"?
First female appointed to a cabinet position as the Secretary of Labor
Who is Frances Perkins?
This Amendment made the production, transportation, and sale of alcohol illegal
What is the 18th Amendment?
This is the political party that came into power in 1932 after a wide shift from this political party.
What is Democrats? (1932)
What is Republicans? (1920s)
THIS is the Name given to the creation of the atomic bombs that were dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What is the Manhattan Project?
challenged the New Deal as not going far enough with his Every Man a King ideas
Who is Huey Long?
This was the name of the time period when Black artists, writers, and musicians celebrated Black identity and culture.
What is the Harlem Reniassance?
THIS is the Name of the Event that completed the recovery of the nation from The Great Depression
What is World War II?
THIS is the name of the Supreme Court decision that said Japanese internment during WWII was in fact constitutional because it was during a time of war
What is the Supreme Court decision known as Korematsu v. US?
Appointed commander of the general European Theater of the the war.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower
This philosophy claimed that productivity would increase if jobs were optimized and simplified. It also proposed matching a worker to a particular job that suited the person's skill level and then training the worker to do that job in a specific way.
What is Scientific Management? Later showed up as the Assembly Line by Henry Ford
These are the THREE Goals of the New Deal
What are the 3Rs - Relief for unemployed, Recovery for business, & Reform of economic institutions?
THESE lasted a week as military men attacked/ beat Mexican Americans with clubs in Los Angeles. Police stood by and allowed the attacks BUT arrested Mexican Americans who were trying to protect themselves. No one was killed but more than 150 people had been injured, and the police had arrested more than 500 Mexican American civilians on charges ranging from "rioting" to "vagrancy".
What were the ZOOT SUIT RIOTS?
Led to massive increases in war production before Pearl Harbor
What was the Lend Lease Act of 1941
This group mocked traditional female subordination by relegating boys, nicknamed “flippers,” to the position of “male auxiliaries” (helpers) to them.
This same group submitted pictures of themselves in male attire to show lack of subordination
What are Flappers (aka Flapper Flocks)?
THIS is what the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) accomplished.
What is the FDIC guaranteed people's bank deposits up to $2500 recreating a trust in the banks?
This conference warned Japan to surrender unconditionally or be destroyed?
What is the Postdam Conference? (BEFORE dropping atomic bombs)
The new way the Federal government collected taxes during WWII
tax-withholding system
The Teapot Dome Scandal was under THIS President and was about THIS
Who is President Harding and What is the accepting bribes for the illegal sale of government land to oil companies? (Harding did not do this but his Secretary of Interior - Fall did)
This program created a safety-net for Americans allowing them to save for the future via money taken out of paychecks.
What is Social Security Act
Use an unknown language making it tough for messages to be decoded by the enemy.
Navajo Code Talkers
Created a cookbook called Your Share, to help with creative solutions to rationing.
Betty Crocker