Historical Events
October 29, 1929
What is the day the stock market crashed?
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand initiated this event.
What started World War I?
Over-production, underconsumption and stock market speculation led to this
What are the causes of the stock market crash?
This caused Japan to surrender.
What was the effect of the atomic bombs on Japan during the war?
This is the massive internal migration of Black Americans from the South to urban centers in the North, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970.
What is The Great Migration
This is when people lose their jobs as businesses closed and production slow down, leading to a massive increase of people without jobs.
What is unemployment?
The two groups fought against each other in World War I
Who are the Allied Powers and the Central Powers?
An environmental disaster that devastated farming communities in the Great Plains. As drought conditions and poor farming practices led to massive soil erosion,
thousands of farmers and their families
What is the Dust Bowl?
He was the president at the beginning of WWII, but died unexpectedly. He is known for his fireside chats, the New Deal Program and the statement "Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
By working in the industries/factories during World War I, many American women helped gain support this movement.
What was Women's Suffrage movement?
This is President FDR'S program aimed to promote economic recovery through federal activism, such as creating new agencies and public works programs to put Americans back to work.
What is the New Deal?
France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, and, later, the United States.
Who are the Allied Powers?
The reason the people called "Okies" migrated further west to California during the Great Depression.
What is an effect of the Dust Bowl in the Great Plains region?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What are the two cities in Japan that U.S. dropped the atomic bombs?
A founding member of the Socialist party who was imprisoned for violating the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918 which made it illegal to obstruct military recruitment, incite insubordination, or criticize the government where he spoke out against American involvement in the war.
Who is Eugene Debs?
December 7, 1941
What is the day that Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japan?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire
Who are the Central Powers?
He was the United States' President during the early years of the Great Depression and felt that laissez faire or to let things take its course was best when addressing the Great Depression.
Who was Herbert Hoover
A top-secret, U.S. government-led research and development undertaking during World War II which focused on developing the first atomic bomb. Located in Washington, New Mexico and Tennessee.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This is the process of a nation preparing its military and overall resources for a state of war or national emergency. This includes assembling military personnel, organizing and deploying supplies, and potentially reorganizing the national economy to support the war effort
What is war mobilization?
1914
What year did World War II begin?
Germany sent this message encouraging Mexico to enter the war by attacking U.S. and promise they would regain the land lost in the Mexican-American War. This caused U.S. to engage in the war.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
He won the Presidential Election by promising a New Deal Program as a solution to the issues that stemmed from the Great Depression.
Who was Franklin Roosevelt (FDR)?
He was the President is known for the phrase "The buck stops here" and ordered the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan's two cities which ended WWII and began the Cold War.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
This is an allegorical cultural icon in the United States who represents the women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies
Who is Rosie the Riveter?