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WWI
Roaring 20's
Greatest Depression
New Deal
WWII
Miscellaneous
100
This demographic group was excluded due to immigration quotas in the 1920s
Southern or Eastern Europeans (both)
100
This man inadvertently kicks of WWI by killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Gavrilo Princip
100
This baseball hero of New York was very popular in the 1920s, exciting the nation with his homeruns.
Babe Ruth
100
Years of bad crops and drought led to this in the Midwest.
Dust Bowl
100
FDR planned to start as many New Deal programs at the start of his presidency, wanting to use this amount of days to get legislation passed quickly. Most presidencies after use this time period as a measure of their initial success.
The First 100 Days
100
A Japanese attack on this naval base leads to the US involvement in WWII
Pearl Harbor
100
This boxer defeats Jim Jeffries to become the first black heavyweight champion.
Jack Johnson
200
This cultural movement, with jazz, literature, and art was a result of the Great Migration
Harlem Renaissance
200
Machine guns moved the majority of the fighting of WWI into these defensive positions
Trenches
200
People bought consumer goods like radios, vacuums and ovens using this.
Credit
200
This president did not handle the Great Depression well, things related to homelessness would be named after him, like shanty towns and use newspapers for blankets.
Herbert Hoover
200
Name one of the work programs started under the New Deal
CCC, WPA
200
The US battled Japan in the Pacific with a series of amphibious battles known as
Island Hopping
200
This man becomes president after Warren Harding has a heart attack, he is the only president to be sworn in wearing his pajamas (so far).
Calvin Coolidge
300
This group rose in popularity in the 1920s partly due to a popular film named "Birth of A Nation." At their height of power they would make up 6% of the US population
Ku Klux Klan
300
Woodrow Wilson wins his election in 1916 with this ironic slogan, considering what he did in 1917.
"He kept us out of war"
300
Warren Harding runs for president promising a Return to _____
Normalcy
300
The stock market failed partly because people bought stock on _________, taking out loans to buy stock.
Margin
300
What does the FDIC do for your bank deposits
Insures them up to $250,000 in case of bank failure or robbery.
300
Women working on assembly lines building weapons for WWII became known by this nickname
Rosie The Riveter
300
This animal is a mix of a lion and a tiger, it is called a ___________, it's bred for its skills and magic.
Liger
400
This unpopular treaty set the stage for the second world war.
Treaty of Versailles
400
The Eastern front of WWI closes when this country has a revolution.
Russia
400
Women wore new styles and lived lives that some Americans would consider outrageous. They were know as _____________
Flappers
400
FDR said that the only thing we have to fear is
Fear itself
400
FDR addressed the public weekly through these radio broadcasts
Fireside chats
400
The landing of American and British troops on the beaches of Normandy is known as __________
D-Day
400
The atomic bomb is tested in the US state
New Mexico
500
This amendment to the Constitution was indirectly responsible for NASCAR.
18th Amendment
500
The Central Powers consisted of (3)
Germany, Austro Hungarian Empire, Ottoman Empire
500
The prohibition of alcohol led to a rise in power for this group, the guy below was the most infamous member during the 1920s.
Organized crime, mafia, mob, Al Capone
500
Banks failed when people tried to take all of their money out of their accounts during the Great Depression, these were known as...
bank runs
500
FDR spoke of the Four Freedoms during his state of the union in 1941 name at least 3
Freedom of speech, freedom to worship, freedom from fear, freedom from want
500
The atomic bomb is dropped on these two cities
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
500
This was the bloodiest war of the 19th century, and the bloodiest overall until WWII
Taiping Rebellion (between 20-100 million dead)
600
There were some people who challenged the New Deal and its programs and aims. Name one of them.
Huey Long, Father Coughlin, specific republicans
600
Returning African American soldiers were greeted with KKK led violence in 1919, also known by this colorful seasonal name.
Red Summer
600
This trial was the most popular trial of the 20's, arguing whether it was okay to teach evolution in schools.
Scopes Monkey Trial
600
One of the issues that led to the Great Depression was that this percentage of people lived under the poverty line, making less than $2500 a year.
70%
600
FDR's New Deal agenda was under threat from the Supreme Court, he countered with threats of adding justices, a process known as ______________
Court packing
600
This country's armies make it to Berlin first at the end of the War
Russia (USSR, Soviets)
600
This author, who came out of the 1920's "Lost Generation" with novels like "The Sun Also Rises" and "The Old Man and The Sea" lived in the Florida Keys, where there are cats with thumbs.
Ernest Hemingway
700
This man almost threw it all away over the woman who drove his Jeep.
Dwight Eisenhower
700
The American Expeditionary Force is led by this man, who also led troops in the US-Filipino War.
Pershing
700
The Great Bambino, The Sultan of Swat, traded from the Red Sox to the Yankees, invoking a nearly century long curse, this man was the most popular baseball player of the 1920s.
Babe Ruth
700
Climate migrants escaping the Dust Bowl to work farms in California were called this derisive nickname
Okies
700
The WPA did more than build parks or put on plays. It also paid for photographers to go across the country, documenting American life and sending people out to record the life stories of this dying minority group.
Formerly enslaved African Americans
700
The Allies used the dead body of a homeless man disguised as a British officer to convince the Nazis that the Allies would invade Greece and Sardinia, not Sicily (where the Allies actually invaded). The name of this top secret, actually, truly, for real operation is one of the following...
A)Operation Valkyrie B)Operation Torch C)Operation Mincemeat D)Operation Dandy Fellow E)Operation Dead Homeless Man Who Drank Rat Poison And Ended Up Saving The Lives of Thousands of Soldiers
Operation Mincemeat
700
On the television show, Breaking Bad, Walter White drove this very unpopular American car
Pontiac Aztek