The Great War
The Roaring 20's
The Great Depression
World War II
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100
Woodrow Wilson's plans for peace, included a League of Nations, the removal of economic barriers, and the elimination of secret treaties.
What are The 14 Points?
100
Consumers bought things, such as automobiles, on this.
What is credit?
or What are buying plans?
100
The first one-hundred days refer to this.
What is the first day of FDR's presidency?
100
This act set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed "vital to the defense of the United States."
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
100
At the mere age of 10, she helped her mother transform their home into a boarding house after her father was laid off due to the depression in 1932.
Who is Kit Kittredge?
200
The US declared war on Germany after Great Britain intercepted this wire from Germany
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
200
Borrowing large sums of money to invest in the stock market
What is buying stock on margin?
200
A reform that issued old age pensions and disability insurance.
What is Social Security?
200
The movement during the second world war that called out the hypocrisy of African Americans fighting for democracy abroad when they were still treated as second-class citizens at home.
What is the Double-V Campaign?
200
The illustration depicts a central theme of the early 19th century.
What are Women's Rights?
300
These acts passed during the Great War limited American citizens' freedom of speech in times of war.
What are the Espionage and the Sedition Acts?
300
A plan to restore the German economy, where the US lends money to Germany which then can pay reparations to the Allies, who then can pay back their loans from the US
What is the Dawes Plan?
300
The US Supreme Court believed FDR was overstepping his executive powers with this series of programs.
What is the New Deal?
300
An allied offensive in the Pacific destroyed four Japanese carriers.
What is the Battle of Midway?
300
Molly McIntire, a prominent figure during World War II, aided in the war effort by having this.
What is a victory garden?
400
The buying of war bonds, rationing food, and enlisting in the military are ways Americans did this.
What is supporting the war effort?
400
The economic policy practiced under President Harding.
What is laissez-faire?
400
His “share the wealth” movement involved raising taxes on the rich and giving every family $5,000.
Who is Huey Long?
400
Brought Mexican migrants to fill shortages of labor caused by the draft.
What is the Bracero Program?
400
This attack changed the life of Nanea Mitchell, who (at 9 years old) witnesses her home under martial law and watches countless of her Japanese neighbors being arrested
What is Pearl Harbor?
500
This individual opposed the Treaty of Versailles (especially the League of Nations) because he thought it would force America into foreign affairs.
Who is Henry Cabot Lodge?
500
The trial highlighted the tension between fundamental values and scientific discoveries.
What is the Scopes Trial?
500
It reduced the flow of goods into the U.S. and ultimately worsened the depression.
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
500
The executive order authorized the forced relocation of thousands of Japanese Americans to internment camps.
What is 9066?
500
In 1922, this significant young girl of American History was inspired by the Harlem Renaissance, the movement of black culture and pride, but feared she did not have her own gift to share.
Who is Claudie Wells?