WW1
This was the event that sparked the start of World War I.
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This term describes when factories made many identical items quickly, helping produce lots of goods.
Mass production.
The Great Depression was a time when many people lost jobs and money; one sign of economic trouble shown in the test was a sharp drop in these prices in 1929.
Stock prices.
President Roosevelt’s plan to help the country during the Great Depression was called this.
The New Deal.
Read the list: Austria-Hungary, Great Britain, France, Ottoman Empire, Russia, Germany. Name which alliance each belonged.
Austria-Hungary and Germany — Central Powers. (Great Britain, France, Russia, Ottoman Empire — Allied Powers.)
After the assassination, countries joined the war because of these agreements that promised to help each other.
Alliances
People who bought things by paying a little now and the rest later were using this.
Credit.
Farmers used new ______ that helped them grow more, but they ended up with more ______ than they could sell. (two words)
machinery / crops (or technology / products).
This New Deal agency helped provide electricity and control flooding in parts of the South.
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).
After the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, more countries entered the war because of __________. (A: alliances, B: imperialism, C: isolationism, D: scarcity)
A — alliances.
Name one weapon or technology from WWI that made the fighting more deadly
Machine guns / Poison gas / Submarines /etc (accept any one).
Name one famous person from the 1920s that shows new entertainment or heroes
Babe Ruth / Amelia Earhart / F. Scott Fitzgerald / Duke Ellington (accept one).
During Prohibition people who made or sold alcohol illegally were called this.
Bootleggers.
One New Deal program put unemployed people to work building roads, bridges, and airports. Name that program.
Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Fill in the blanks: To reduce the number of casualties during the war, both sides __________. However, this could not protect soldiers from new weapons such as __________. (choose from list: used machine guns, used submarines, dug trenches, flew fighter planes, barbed wire, poison gas, tanks, bayonets)
dug trenches ... poison gas (Accept also: dug trenches ... tanks / dug trenches ... machine guns
context: trenches used; new deadly weapons included poison gas, tanks, machine guns, submarines.)
One reason the United States entered World War I was when a German submarine sank a passenger ship that had Americans aboard. Name that ship.
The Lusitania.
This movement celebrated Black artists, writers, and musicians in the 1920s.
The Harlem Renaissance.
Explain in one sentence how buying on credit made the stock market crash worse.
When people bought on credit and prices began falling, many rushed to sell their stocks to pay debts, making prices fall more.
The government insurance system that helped protect people’s money in banks is called this.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
Complete: New __________ allowed farmers to grow more but left them with more __________ than was needed. (choose from loans, technology, crops, products, machinery, work, supply, demand)
New machinery (or technology) ... crops (or products).
Explain briefly how trenches changed the way soldiers fought in WWI and why trenches could not fully protect them from new weapons.
Trenches gave soldiers protection from small arms fire but could not stop new weapons like poison gas, artillery, and tanks.
Name one way life changed for people in the 1920s
New fashions / Radios / Cars / Increased leisure and entertainment (accept one or two short phrases)
Name one cause of the Dust Bowl and briefly why the soil became weak.
one example: Drought — Because planting wheat in grazing fields removed the grasses that held the soil, so wind blew it away.
Explain in 2–3 sentences how murals or government-funded artworks helped people during the New Deal. Include one reason why the government paid artists.
The government paid artists to create murals and public art to give work to unemployed artists and to boost public morale. These works also taught communities about local history and New Deal projects.
What kind of source would a newspaper with the date: January 19, 1919 belong, Primary or secondary? Why?
Primary source — it is a newspaper headline produced at the time of the event; it provides direct evidence from that time.