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WWII
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The continued violation of US merchant ships by these German naval vessels was one of the main reasons why the US finally entered the Great War.
What are U-Boats
100
This group added Catholics, Immigrants, and Socialists to their "hate list" during their resurgence in the 1920s.
What is the Ku Klux Klan
100
This was the nickname for the "shanty towns" that were populated by homeless and unemployed people. It was a take-off on the President at the time.
What are "Hoovervilles".
100
One of the first actions taken by FDR was to declare a multi-day "holiday" for these institutions to make sure that no more could fail.
What are banks
100
The defeat of this leading Axis power became the chief goal of the Allies after the US entered WWII in 1941.
What is Germany
200
This was the name for the group in the Senate that was COMPLETELY opposed to the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles by the US.
Who are the "irreconcilables"
200
This was the nickname for the young girls who challenged social norms of the 1920s by cutting their hair short, wearing more "revealing clothes", drinking alcohol, and driving cars.
What are "flappers".
200
This tariff which bears the name of the two Congressmen that sponsored it raised import taxes to a record level and did not produce the intended effect of helping the US during the Great Depression.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff
200
FDR's Secretary of Agriculture who came up with the idea of the Agricultural Adjustment Act which paid government subsidies to farmers to destroy their surplus crops to drive up prices.
Who is Henry Wallace
200
The US decided to pass these laws after to keep Britain armed after it miraculously held out against the German blitzkrieg but was lacking the gold for "cash and carry".
What are the Lend-Lease Acts
300
The creation of this group was the most important point fought for by Wilson at the Versailles Treaty negotiations as well as when the Treaty was being considered by the Senate.
What is the League of Nations
300
This entrepreneur used the assembly line to his advantage and set Americans off "on the roads" faster than they ever had before.
What is Henry Ford
300
In an effort to curb the effects of the depression from spreading worldwide, President Hoover issued a "moratorium" that would give this nation a "year off" from having to pay war reparations to France in the aftermath of WWI.
What is Germany.
300
The decision by the President to cut several New Deal programs in 1937 on the belief that the worst of the Depression was behind America lead to another economic downturn, also nicknamed this.
What is the "Roosevelt Recession."
300
The act gave the President enormous authority to execute World War II in an "efficient manner". It would continue to shape many future Presidencies for decades to come.
What is the War Powers Act.
400
These groups were meant to foster good relations between labor and management during the Great War in order to ensure that few strikes would occur to slow US industrial production.
What are the "war boards".
400
This US President made it clear where his loyalties were when he famously stated "the business of America is business."
Who is Calvin Coolidge
400
Even though FDR gets credit for the public works projects that created thousands of jobs, it was actually started by Hoover in 1930 with a $900 million grant to buildi this now famous landmark on Colorado River.
What is the Hoover Dam.
400
This was a New Deal public work relief program for unemployed, unmarried men from ages 18–25. It provided unskilled manual labor jobs related to the development of natural resources in rural lands owned by federal, state and local governments.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
400
Just like the Committee of Public Information of WWI, the purpose of this WWII department was to "sell" the war to the American public.
What is the Office of War Information (OWI)
500
This case involved the constitutionality of the Espionage and Sedition act in terms of whether a person could distribute leaflets opposing the draft in a time of war. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes compared the action to "shouting fire in a crowded theater and causing panic."
What is Schenck v. US
500
The conviction and execution of these two admitted anarchists based on little to no hard evidence demonstrated the hysteria over Socialism during America's first "Red Scare"
What are Niccolo Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (Sacco & Vanzetti).
500
This corporate practice of providing incentives to workers such as profit sharing and pensions to dissuade them from joining unions was also known as this.
What is "welfare-capitalism"
500
FDR (and future Democratic candidates) built upon the support of union members, big city machines, the white South, and ethnic minorities for his economic policies from 1932-1968 to win numerous Presidential elections. The support group became known as this.
What is the "New Deal Coalition"
500
This 1943 meeting between Churchill and FDR was the genesis for "unconditional surrender" of Germany and Japan.
What is the Casablanca Conference.