Show:
Questions
Responses
Print
Jazz Age/HR
Roaring Twenties
Great Depression
New Deal
World War II
100
African American artists like Duke Ellington and Langston Hughes emerged during this period
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
100
The major result of this was an increase in organized crime.
What is Prohibition?
100
This was the IMMEDIATE cause of the Great Depression
What is the stock market crash?
100
FDR hoped to provide this R to people in need of food and shelter.
What is relief?
100
This President was elected to an unprecedented 3rd term in office because of the impending World War II
Who is FDR?
200
This was the BIRTHPLACE of Jazz
What is New Orleans?
200
This was Henry Ford's contribution to industrialization. It made car manufacturing faster.
What is the assembly line?
200
Hoovervilles and Hoover Blankets showed that President Hoover was unwilling to help these people
Who are the homeless?
200
FDR wanted this R for the economy
What is recovery?
200
This is where many women worked during WWII?
What are factories?
300
This is where the revival of African American culture flourished.
What is Harlem?
300
Overproduction helped keep these people from participating in the prosperity of the 1920s
What are the farmers?
300
This is what caused the Dust Bowl
What is drought/overfarming?
300
This program was set up to correct abuses in the stock market
What is the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission)
300
The US had difficulty fighting WWII because they were fighting on...
What are two fronts?
400
This was a major effect of the Jazz Age, meaning that blacks and whites mingled together
What is integration?
400
This woman was the face of working women during WWII
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
400
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. The beginning of this marked the end of the Great Depression.
What is World War II?
400
FDR wanted this R to help prevent future depressions and to make lasting change.
What is Reform?
400
With the Lend-Lease Act, the US lent weapons to these countries when they could not afford them.
Who are the British and French (the Allies)?
500
This was the biggest and best Jazz club in Harlem
What is the Cotton Club?
500
This was formed after WWII to provide collective security in Europe against aggression
What is NATO?
500
This is when many African Americans from the South moved up North to work in factories.
What is the Great Migration?
500
This was FDR's group of advisers that helped him plan New Deal programs
What is the Brain Trust?
500
This is the reason why Truman dropped the atomic bomb on Japan (bombs actually)
What is to save lives (or to end the war quickly, thereby saving lives)