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Imperialism
100
This paid farmers for not planting crops in order to reduce surpluses, increase demand for seven major farm commodities, and raise prices.
What is AAA
100
This caused the total surrender of Japan.
What is the result of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
100
Slums and Shantytowns in big cities that was named after a President.
What is Hoovervilles
100
A form of art used to convey a message to Americans during wartime.
What is propaganda
100
Signed in law by Pres. Woodrow Wilson in 1917, which managed to bring 3 million people into the Armed Forces for the next two years of World War I.
What is the Selective Service Act
200
To restore confidence in banks and encourage savings, Congress created this to insure bank customers against the loss of up to $5,000 their deposits if their bank should fail. Created by the Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act of 1933, It is still in existence
What is FDIC
200
German Word for "lighting Warfare"
What is blitzkrieg?
200
Unemployed WWI veterans that marched to the U.S. capital
What is Bonus Army?
200
In 1901, this Amendment was added to the Cuban constitution by which the US was allowed certain concessions including the right indefinitely maintain Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba.
Platt Amendment
200
The U.S. believed this was a good place to put a naval base in the Pacific, so they took it. (Hint; what is it called and the name of the islands?)
What is U.S annex Hawaii?
300
Intended both for industrial recovery and unemployment relief. Eventually over $4 billion was spent on 34,000 construction projects including public buildings, highways, bridges (e.g., San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge), and dams for water and power.
What is PWA
300
Leaders who control their nation by force
What is Dictators
300
Three main causes of the Dust Bowl? (Daily Double)
What is overproduction, drought, and high winds?
300
These were the most decorated African Americans pilots in WWII
What is The Tuskegee Airmen
300
A country or nation taking over another territory or country.
What is annexation
400
Was created in 1934 to serve as a federal "watchdog" administrative agency to protect public and private investors from stock market fraud, deception and insider manipulation on Wall Street.
What is SEC
400
Allowed America to sell, lend and/or lease arms or other war supplies to any nation considered vital to the defense of the U.S.
What is Lend-Lease Act
400
An arrangement in which consumers agreed to buy and pay later for a purchase.
What is Credit
400
Pres. Theodore Roosevelt assertive approach to Latin America and the Caribbean has often been characterized as the "big stick" and his policy became known as Roosevelt's "Monroe doctrine". He said you must, "Speak softly and carry a big stick and you will go far."
What is Roosevelt Corollary
400
December 10, 1898 Treaty of Paris signed to annexed Puerto Rico one and a Philippines to the United States.
What is the results of the Spanish–American War?
500
A national pension fund for retired persons, an unemployment insurance system, and public assistance programs for dependent mothers, children, and the physically disabled. (Daily Double)
What is SSA
500
Crowded and uncomfortable camps that the U.S. put American Japanese in, located mostly in deserts areas.
What is Internment Camps
500
Paying a small percentage of a stock's price as a down payment and borrowing the rest.
What is Buying on the Margin
500
The movement for women's right to vote.
What is women's suffrage?
500
It's the sinking of a U.S. Naval ship in the Havana Harbor Cuba was blamed on the Spain and help precipitate the start of the Spanish-American war
What is U.S.S. Maine