Gilded Age
This man & writer created the term Gilded Age
Who is Mark Twain?
The progressive era started to do this
What is to fight against political corruption thru reforms?
This famous photo with a mother & her children during the depression was taken by this woman
Who is Dorothea Lange?
This member of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire had been assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia in June 1914
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
These three men were the leaders of the Axis Powers during World War II
Who are Hitler, Tojo, & Mussolini?
This wealthy businessman was the nation's first billionaire by making his money in the oil business
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
These were the four constitutional amendments that were ratified during the progressive era
What are the 16th, 17th, 18th, & 19th amendments?
The Great Depression started in this year
What is 1929?
These were the name of the two sides during the World War I
What are the Central Powers & Allied Powers?
Japan bombed this naval station in December, 1941 which got the U.S. into the war.
What is Pearl Harbor?
These two things are most associated with the Gilded Age
What is Economic Growth & Political Corruption?
Progressive Reformer Upton Sinclair wrote this book which detailed the unsanitary practices of meat processing plants across the country
What was the Jungle?
This man promised the American public a "New Deal" during the 1932 Presidential Election
Who is FDR?
In 1917 Russia was forced to withdraw from the war because this event was occuring led by Vladimir Lenin who oversaw the birth of the Soviet Union
What is the Russian Revolution?
The mass killing of European Jews during the war was called this
What is the Holocaust?
The Gilded Age started 5 years after this war ended in 1865
What is the Civil War?
The organization was formed in 1909 by W.E.B. Dubois & Ida B. Wells (along with others) to fight for the civil rights of Black Americans
What is NAACP?
This New Deal Program was created to help those Americans who were too old to work by sending them a check every month
What is Social Security?
Daily Double: Germany sent this telegram to Mexico to help keep the U.S. out of the war. The telegram ended up doing the opposite.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
This U.S. General was the Supreme Commander of all Allied forces during the war, helped planned the D-Day invasion, & would later become POTUS in January 1953
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This man ran Tammany Hall & the NYC political machine during the Gilded Age
Who is Boss Tweed?
Teddy Roosevelt ran for President in 1912 under this political party
What is the Progressive Party or Bull Moose Party?
President Franklin D. Roosevelt threaten to do this early in his 2nd term as POTUS to make sure his New Deal Programs were not ruled unconstitutional
What is pack the Supreme Court?
This military campaign was a train wreck for the British when they underemisted the strength of the Ottoman Turks
What is the Gallipoli Campaign?
The U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on these two Japanese cities which officially ended the war
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?