The largest African American community lived in this region of New York City.
What is Harlem?
100
It was clear that FDR’s New Deal programs would revolve around these three notions/steps. (think the alphabet)
What are the Three R’s (relief, recovery, reform)?
100
These policies were put into place to ensure that U.S would not involve itself if war broke it in Europe. These laws were signed by Roosevelt.
What are the Neutrality Acts?
100
Allied representatives proposed this international peacekeeping organization after WWII.
What is United Nations?
200
These laws were passed by Congress to severely limit immigration based on nationality.
What is quota laws?
200
This was one cause of several that led to the stock market crash in 1929. Consumers and business relied on the idea that the economic boom would last forever. People would be over buying and borrowing.
What is excessive use of credit?
200
This provided that a belligerent could buy U.S arms of it used its own ships and paid cash. Technically this was neutral, but it strongly favored Britain.
What is “cash and carry”?
200
These people struggled in the agricultural industry as poor farming practices coupled with high winds blew away millions of tons of dried topsoil.
What are Dust Bowl Farmers?
300
This case revolved around fundamentalism regarding religion and the teaching of evolution in schools.
What is the Scopes Trial?
300
FDR spoke to the public over the radio to asure them that banks would be safe after they reopened.
What is Fireside Chats?
300
The landing operations on June 6, 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during WWII.
What is D-Day?
300
This new system created by Henry Ford allowed for increased productivity. In the 1920s, most major industries adopted this.
What is the assembly line?
400
The most extreme expression of nativism in the 1920s was the resurgence of this group. They targeted “un-American” looking people.
What is the resurgence of the KKK?
400
This created a federal insurance program based upon the automatic collection of payments for, employees and employers throughout the people’s working careers. This trust fund would then be used to make monthly payments to retired persons over the age of 65.
What is the Social Security Act?
400
This attack on the US ultimately led to the declaration of war on December 8, 1941.
What is the Pear Harbor?
400
This happened as a result of the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 and the Wagner Act of 1935 that legalized this. Membership increased from less than 3 million to over 10 million.
What is the rise of labor unions?
500
Established a cycle of payments between the US and Germany and the Allies. The US would lend large sums of money to Germany to rebuild their economy and pay reparations to Britain and France.
What is the Dawes Plan?
500
This organization allotted money to state and local governments for building roads, bridges, dams, and other public works. Such construction projects were a source of thousands of jobs.
What is the Public Works Administration (PWA)?
500
This strategy allowed commanders to bypass strongly held Japanese posts and isolated the, with naval and air power. The Allied forces were able to move steadily towards Japan.
What is island-hopping?
500
Roosevelt’s policy promised good relations towards other nations of the Western Hemisphere. It was implemented through the Pan-American Confrence, nullification of the Platt Amendment, and negotiations with Mexico regarding the seizing of US oil.