World War I
This type of fighting in WWI involved soldiers living in long ditches facing each other.
What is trenches?
Harding’s promise to return the nation to life before WWI.
What is "Return to Normalcy"?
Another name for the energetic and exciting decade of the 1920s.
What are the Roaring Twenties?
Moving from countryside to cities is known as this.
What is urbanization?
Buying stock with borrowed money was known as buying “on” this.
What is margin?
President during WWI who proposed the “14 Points.”
This scandal involved illegal oil leases on federal land.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Music style that became hugely popular and featured Louis Armstrong.
What is jazz?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
These camps built by homeless Americans were named after the president they blamed.
What are Hoovervilles?
This deadly 1918 disease killed more people than the war itself.
What is the Spanish flu?
A policy of avoiding involvement in foreign affairs.
What is isolationism?
African American cultural movement including writers like Langston Hughes.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The ban on alcohol in the 1920s is known as this.
What is Prohibition?
Huge wind erosion disaster in the Great Plains during the 1930s.
These raids targeted suspected communists and radicals after WWI.
What are the Palmer Raids?
Growing gap between the wealthy and poor during the 1920s can be described by this term.
What is inequality?
Young women who challenged traditional roles with new fashion and behavior.
What are flappers?
Illegal bars that operated during Prohibition.
What are speakeasies?
FDR used these radio talks to reassure Americans.
What are fireside chats?
Fear of communism spreading in the U.S. after WWI was known as this.
What is the red scare?
This 1920s president’s administration was rocked by scandals.
What is Warren G. Harding?
This famous aviator became a national hero for his solo flight across the Atlantic.
What is Charles Lindbergh?
Movement of African Americans from the rural South to northern cities.
What is the Great Migration?
This New Deal program provided jobs for young men working outdoors, including in Minnesota.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?