WW1
Who were the two "sides" of WW1?
Cental Powers and Allied Powers
The "date which will live in infamy"
What is December 7, 1941 (Pearl Harbor attack)?
What do each of these things have in common: bread line, Hoovervilles, tenant farming, Okies
What are economic hardships of the Great Depression?
Effect the end of the war had on women
What is factory workers forced to return back to homes, clerical workers remained employed, loss of independence, preparing the next generation of women to want more, or pushed for greater civil rights?
Homeless people built towns of shacks made from tar paper, cardboard, and scrap metal. These towns were called _______ as a criticism to the president whom many blamed for the Great Depression
What are Hoovervilles?
Final reason the US entered WWI?
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
Laws created during the 1930s keeping the United States from engaging in European conflicts?
What are the Neutrality Acts?
October 29,1929
What is Black Tuesday, Stock Market crash?
Female icon of during WWII illustrating "yes we can"
Who is "Rosie the Riveter?"
The set of programs adopted under the Roosevelt Administration to combat the Great Depression
What is the New Deal?
President Wilson's policy toward the war?
What is neutrality or isolationism?
Codename for the 1940s secret development of US nuclear technology
What is the Manhattan Project?
Forbade the manufacturing. distribution, and sale of alcohol in the US
What is the 18th Amendment (Prohibition Act)?
4 ways Americans showed support for war efforts
What are buying bonds, enlisting in the military, creating victory gardens, women filling vacant jobs, rationing, donating scrap metal, and displaying patriotic symbols?
Congress passed the Banking Act of 1933 which established this guarantee of individual bank deposits up to $2,500
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Situation in which neither side can take action or win
Military corp allowing women to serve clerical, nursing and transportation roles in the Army
Who were the Women's Army Corps?
Increased production of African American arts and culture
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
LA race riots between US navy sailors and the police against Hispanics that spread across the US
What are the Zoot Suit Riots?
What is the Social Security Act?
Offered a protective defense from emerging military technology
What are trenches?
Military codename for the D-Day invasions of Normandy Beach
What was Operation Overlord?
1925 Supreme Court case prohibiting teachers from teaching evolution
What is the Scopes Trial?
The WWII agency making arrangements for Jewish refugee to stay at centers in Italy, North Africa, and Fort Dixon, NY
What is the War Refugee Board?
Term for the central and southern Great Plains when the region suffered from drought & dust storms
What is the Dust Bowl?