Causes of World War One
What is the name of the Serbian terrorist group whose violent actions in the summer of 1914 would provide the spark that started the war?
What was the Black Hand?
The sinking of this great British passenger ship by a German u-boat nearly led the US to declare war on Germany, and was a factor in the later US decision to enter the war on the side of the Allies.
What is the Lusitania?
This famous 1925 trial in Dayton, Tennessee centered around a high-school biology teacher who deliberately broke a state law forbidding the teaching of evolution in public schools.
What is the Scopes (Monkey) Trial?
It has been called "the Great American Novel", and is today regarded as the greatest novel of the Roaring Twenties, and a classic story of the emptiness of modern American culture.
What is the The Great Gatsby?
This African-American neighborhood in New York City saw the arts and literature flourish in the Twenties.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The rise to great economic and military power of this central European nation in the early 20th Century led to fears from its neighbors that it would dominate Europe.
What is Germany?
This future US President became famous by leading the Food Administration Agency in World War One and successfully feeding not only American troops in Europe, but our Allies as well.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
This murder case centered around two Italian immigrants and anarchists who were convicted and executed for killing a paymaster, despite worldwide protests that they were innocent of the crime.
Who were Sacco and Vanzetti?
This 1927 musical was the first film with sound - a "talkie." It was also racist, as it featured a white actor playing the lead character, a black singer.
What is The Jazz Singer?
These young women were celebrated - and criticized - in the Roaring Twenties for being "liberated" from traditional feminine lives and careers. They were usually urban, single, and career-oriented.
Who are the flappers?
What is Nationalism?
This infamous telegram was named after the German foreign minister who foolishly sent it to the Mexican government in hopes of persuading Mexico to declare war on the United States.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
This great political scandal led to one member of President Harding's cabinet going to prison, ruined his historical reputation, and may have led to his impeachment and removal from office had he lived.
What is the Teapot Dome scandal?
This novel by Sinclair Lewis critiqued the conformity, narrow-mindedness, and banality of small-town life in the Midwest in the early 20th Century. The novel's heroine was the town librarian.
What is Main Street?
This famous African-American writer, poet, and playwright was a major symbol of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s.
Who is Langston Hughes?
Which nation dropped out of the war in the fall of 1917, thus giving a major advantage to the Germans for a time?
What is Russia?
President Wilson provided this list of proposals which, if followed by every nation, would end war and prevent any future conflicts such as World War One. It was very controversial among our Allies.
What are the Fourteen Points?
This type of paternal business model was practiced by some 20s businessmen such as Henry Ford. He gave his workers certain benefits, such as sick and vacation leave, and retirement pensions, and in return his workers were expected to not join or support labor unions.
What is welfare capitalism?
These 2 great African-American jazz musicians could often be found playing at nightclubs in big cities in the Northeast and Midwest (like the Cotton Club) in the Roaring Twenties.
Who were Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong?
This Jamaican immigrant founded the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), which supported the philosophy of Black Nationalism. He was eventually convicted by the US government of business fraud and deported back to Jamaica.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
The assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne and his wife in June 1914 was the spark that started the war. What was his title, and both of their names?
Who were the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie?
The US and British navies developed this highly effective system to protect merchant ships from German u-boat attacks while sailing across the Atlantic. It was used again in World War Two.
What is the convoy system?
Perhaps the most famous architect of the 20th Century, he called his style of buildings "functionalism."
Who is Frank Lloyd Wright?
His stage plays were among the first to use standard American English and everyday idioms in the dialogue, and often featured characters who were on the fringes of society, or outcasts.
Who is Eugene O'Neill?
This law passed by Congress in 1924 cut immigration from 3% to just 2% of each national immigrant group, and used the 1890 Census instead of the 1910 Census for immigration purposes.
What is the National Origins Act?