Show:
WWI
The Roaring 20s
The Depression
FDR & the New Deal
WWII
100
Woodrow Wilson pledged the US would follow this particular doctrine as the Great War began in 1914. He reneged 3 years later.
What is neutrality
100
This new genre of American music became the soundtrack for the 1920s.
What is Jazz
100
October 29, 1929 became known as "this day" after the NYSE "crashed" when 16 million shares were sold without any buyers.
What is "Black Tuesday"
100
This "time period" at the beginning of Roosevelt's first term marked an unprecedented level of legislation to combat the spreading effects of the Depression
What is The "Hundred Days"
100
In this "last meeting" between Churchill, Stalin, and FDR, the Big Three agreed to allow Stalin to keep all territory in E. Europe as a "buffer" against future German aggression in exchange for his promise to enter the war against Japan.
What is the Yalta Conference
200
This message between Germany and Mexico was intercepted and decoded by the British and passed on to the United States. It revealed Germany's plan to propose an alliance with Mexico to attack the US and keep them from entering the Great War.
What is the Zimmerman Note
200
This law attempted to "clarify" the 18th Amendment but in most cases it created "loopholes" to get around Prohibition.
What is the Volstead Act
200
This type of "market" (led by aggressive buying of stocks) was cited as one of the main reasons why the paper value of US corporations exceeded their real value.
What is a "bull market"
200
This agency created by Roosevelt's Banking Relief Act promised that the US protect any associated public or private bank deposits up to a certain amount of money.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
200
In 1940, during one of his fireside chats, FDR referred to America by this nickname which demonstrated our ideological and military support for our Allies who were fighting against Hitler but did not directly involve us in the war...yet.
What is the "Arsenal of Democracy"
300
George Creel headed this newly-created department that was designed to "sell" the war through propaganda, speeches, and war bonds.
What is Committee of Public Information (CPI)
300
This group of individuals (some of which were President Harding's Cabinet members, some of which were just his close personal friends) conducted some of the most notorious scandals at the executive level in government in US history.
What is the "Ohio Gang"
300
In 1932, 2,000 individuals known by this nickname staged a march on Washington DC to demand a promised $1,000 payment made to them in 1924 after their service in the Great War. They were driven off by US Army troops at gunpoint.
What is the "Bonus Army".
300
This government-funded project in the trans-Mississippi valley set up to provide cheap electric power to many parts of the rural south. It was criticized of the New Deal Coalition's enemies as being "too socialistic".
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority
300
African-Americans, spurred by leaders such as A. Philip Randolph, waged this campaign which led to Executive Order 8802 which banned discrimination in the defense industry and government.
What is the "Double V Campaign"
400
He led the US Food Administration and preached a message of conservation and reduced consumption to prevent the US from having to resort to rationing.
Who is Herbert Hoover
400
During the 1920s, this man's media organization controlled over 26 newspapers in 18 major cities (accounting for 14% of the nation's total newspaper circulation)
Who is William Randolph Hearst
400
Hoover believed that the direct financial assistance to the American people would lead to a demise in this "characteristic" that he had stated about Americans in general concerning their work ethic and ability.
What is "rugged individualism"
400
One of Roosevelt's most vocal critics for "not doing enough" with the New Deal, he campaigned on the "Share Our Wealth" platform which would allow the wealthiest 5% in America to keep a certain amount of what they had earned but distribute the rest to those in need.
Who is Huey Long
400
This Congressional Committee, led by this Congressman, concluded that America's involvement in WWI was nothing short of a deal between arms manufacturers and bankers to increase their profits. It's conclusions led to the passage of several Neutrality Acts and the continued call for American isolationism.
What is the Nye Committee (led by Gerald Nye)
500
In the aftermath of the Great War, this US Attorney General issued orders for the Justice Department's Bureau of Investigation to arrest and search for information connecting IWW members to communism in a series of "raids"
Who is A. Mitchell Palmer
500
This Chicago banker worked alongside Sec. of State Herbert Hoover in the Coolidge Administration to set up a plan for US banks to lend money to Germany, which would help them pay their war reparations to Britain and France, who would then be better able to pay off their war loans back to the US.
Who is Charles Dawes
500
The creation of this agency in 1932 was Hoover's best attempt to curb the effects of the Depression by directing it to make government money available to banks, railroads, and other businesses in an attempt to get them to expand and hire more workers. Few industries, if any, took the money.
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
500
This agency, created in 1933, was designed to legally limit production of consumer goods in order to drive up prices. It was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
What is the National Recovery Administration (NRA)
500
The sinking of this US merchant ship by German U-Boats off the coast of Africa in May 1941 demonstrated that any and all American ships were subject to the same treatment
What is the Robin Moor