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World Wars
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Roaring 20's
Cold, so Cold
100
the federal board that regulated American industry during WWI
What is the War Industries Board?
100
the president who was in office at the beginning of the Great Depression
Who is Herbert Hoover?
100
CCC
What is the Civilian Conservation Corp?
100
national fears about communism and its influence in the USA
What is the Red Scare?
100
policy devised by George F. Kennan to control the spread of communism
What is Containment?
200
the world body proposed by Woodrow Wilson that was a precursor to the modern UN
What is League of Nations?
200
the New Deal act that protected the right of workers to form unions
What is the Wagner Act?
200
NIRA
What is the National Industry Recovery Act?
200
He was president during the Teapot Dome Scandal
Who is Warren G. Harding?
200
NATO
What is North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
300
The acts passed in the 1930's that were intended to keep the USA out of growing tensions in Europe
What are the Neutrality Acts of 1935 & 1939?
300
real estate speculation, buying on margin (credit), rapid demobilization from WWI, uneven division of wealth
What are the causes of the stock market crashes of the the Fall of 1929?
300
TVA
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
300
the quietest Republican of all
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
300
American effort to keep East Berlin supplied after Soviet blockade
What is the Berlin Airlift?
400
December 7, 1941
What is the date of the attack on Pearl Harbor, (as well as several other islands in the Pacific including the Philippines)?
400
"Relief, Recovery & Reform"
What is FDR's platform for both the 1932 Presidential Election and the First New Deal?
400
WPA
What is Works Progress Administration?
400
desire 1920's foreign policy
What is isolationism?
400
$12 billion spent rebuilding Europe post WW2
What is the Marshall Plan?
500
German naval war tactic used during WWI that eventually helped draw US into the war in 1918
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
500
this act created the modern "welfare" state in the USA
What is Social Security Act?
500
FDIC
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
500
this act formed a semi-permenant 2% quota for any existing foreign nationality existing or entering the country
What is National Origins Act of 1924?
500
the conferences that devised the strategy to deal with post WW2 Germany
What are Yalta and Potsdam?