People
the Fascist dictator of Italy from the 1920s through World War II
Who is Benito Mussolini?
It created a program to collect payments from employees and employers to fund monthly payments to retired persons over age 65, unemployed people, and disabled people.
What is Social Security?
Nazis murdered about six million Jews and millions of others during this war.
World War II
Annexed by Congress during the Spanish-American War, it became the fiftieth state in the Union in 1959.
What is Hawaii?
This constitutional amendment guaranteed women the right to vote.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
He perfected a system for manufacturing automobiles using an assembly line in 1914.
Who is Henry Ford?
It guarantees individual bank accounts up to a certain amount. If a bank goes bankrupt, it pays the depositor the money that was in the account.
What is the FDIC?
Cuba gained its independence and the U.S. acquired Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines as a result of this war.
the Spanish-American War
The U.S. completed a canal through this Central American country in 1914 that links the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Also the name of a Van Halen song
Panama
John Scopes was tried and convicted of teaching this to his high school class.
What is evolution?
The U.S. secretary of state responsible for the U.S. purchasing Alaska from Russia in 1867
Who is William Seward?
This government corporation built dams in a poor region of the country to provide inexpensive electricity.
What is the TVA?
Japanese Americans were forced to leave their homes and live in internment camps in the United States during this war.
World War II
The UN is headquartered in this city
What is New York City?
This constitutional amendment repealed Prohibition of alcohol
What is the Twenty-first Amendment?
He wrote a muckraking novel about conditions in the meatpacking industry which led to the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This agency spent billions of dollars between 1935 and 1940 to provide jobs for 3.4 million people. Among other things, this agency built the bridges in City Park.
What is the WPA?
When the American people read the Zimmermann telegram, they wanted to enter this war against Germany.
World War I
Along with Nagasaki, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on this city at the end of World War II.
What is Hiroshima?
He led an insurrection against U.S. control of the Philippines that lasted three years
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo?
This agency regulates the stock market and places strict limits on the kinds of speculative practices that led to the 1929 stock market crash.
What is the SEC?
The Treaty of Versailles, which created the League of Nations, ended this war. The U.S. never ratified the treaty or joined the League of Nations.
World War I
A race riot in this city in 1919 killed forty people and injured five hundred people.
What is Chicago?
This 1913 law substantially lowered tariffs and introduced the first income tax (made possible by ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment).
What was the Underwood Tariff Act?