1920s
This is the nickname given to the women of the 1920s
Flappers
This domestic terrorist organization experienced revival after WWI and increased their hatred to immigrants, Catholics, Jews, liberals, and progressives
KKK
The nickname given to the Stock Market Crash of 1929
Black Tuesday
This is the US strategy in the Pacific Theater of War
Island Hopping
Name one reason the US decided to drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan
Save US lives, Japanese wouldn't surrender, Scare USSR, etc
Part of the Roaring 20s lifestyle was Buying ________- borrowing money from broker to purchase stocks-->loan from brokerage. This allows you to buy more stock that you’d be able to normally
On Margin
The ________ was the hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S that developed after WWI
Red Scare
Nickname given to the Shantytowns that popped up outside of Urban areas during the Great Depression. (Named after an American President)
Hoovervilles
Name for the largest Amphibious Invasion in the European Theater on June 6, 1944
D-Day
This piece of legislation was created by FDR during the New Deal to provide Old Age and Disability insurance to most Americans.
Social Security
The _______ Amendment outlawed the manufacturing, sale, and distribution of alcohol. The _______ repealed it.
18th; 21st
The __________ refers to the group of writers, artists, musicians, and intellectuals that came of age during the First World War and the “Roaring Twenties.”
The Lost Generation
The nickname given to the Great Plains region of the US that experienced an awful drought during the Great Depression
The Dust Bowl
Term used by Hitler and the Nazis to eliminate all Jews during the Holocaust
The Final Solution
This is the french word that dominated politics in the 1920s. Translates to "hands-off"
Laissez-Faire
This is the nickname for the famous Evolution trial of the 1920s which pitted fundamentalism vs. modernity
Scopes Monkey Trial
To “preserve the ideal of American homogeneity”, the Emergency Immigration Act of 1921 introduced numerical limits on European immigration for the first time in US history by establishing national origin _____
Quotas
The 3 R's Associated with FDR's New Deal
Relief, Recovery, Reform
This is the official name for the GI Bill which provided education and home loans for returning veterans
Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944
Name 2 of the Alphabet Agencies created during the New Deal
TVA, AAA, CCC, WPA, etc
The __________ was an American women's political organization formed in 1916 to fight for women's suffrage. After achieving this goal with the 1920 adoption of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, the _____ advocated for other issues including the Equal Rights Amendment
National Women's Party
_________ and __________ were Italian immigrants who were also Anarchists and suspected Communists falsely accused of murder after WWI
Sacco and Vanzetti
Term used to describe President Hoover's response to the Great Depression--> his belief in minimal government interference in the economy, as well as a conviction that direct public relief to individuals would weaken individual character, turn people away from the work-ethic, and lead them to develop a dependency on government handouts
Rugged Individualism
The term for forcing Japanese Americans into concentration camps during WWII
Japanese Internment
Name 3 artists, musicians, writers, etc of the Harlem Renaissance
Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, Countee Cullen, Josephine Baker, etc