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Themes of The Twenties
The Second World War
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The president who governed when the Great Depression struck.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
100
The Prime Minister of Britain during World War II.
Who is Winston Churchill?
100
The name for the foreign policy strategy in which America attempted to remain apart from conflicts in Europe during the 1930's.
What is isolationism?
100
This era was informally known as this because of open warfare between competing gangs, criminals, and law enforcement.
What is the "gangster era"?
100
The event on December 7, 1941 that marked America's entrance into World War II.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
200
The series of reforms implemented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in order to combat the depression.
What is the New Deal?
200
The man who broke the law passed in Tennessee in 1925 that forbidded teachers to teach the theory of evolution.
Who is John Thomas Scopes?
200
The embargo on this Japanese resource that Roosevelt imposed immediately after Japan entered into an alliance with Italy and Germany in 1940.
What is the fuel embargo?
200
This law increased the amount of organized crime in producing and selling liquor.
What is Prohibition?
200
Two examples of improved weaponry during World War II.
What is the radar and the atomic bomb?
300
This group called for the nationalization of business in America.
What is the Socialist Group?
300
The two prominent attorneys that argued the Scopes trial.
Who are Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan?
300
This was passed to allow the United States to lend weapons to England, as long as they returned them after the war ended.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
300
These women went against tradition by drinking, partying, smoking, and wearing makeup.
Who were Flappers?
300
The names of the two atomic bombs that the United States dropped on Japan.
What are Fat Man and Little Boy?
400
This trade status made countries eligible for the lowest tariff rate set by the United States, it also remains a foreign policy today.
What is the most-favored-nation trade status (MFN)?
400
The Secretary of War during Roosevelt's presidency that advised him to wait for a Japanese attack in order to guarantee popular support for the war at home.
Who is Henry Stimson?
400
This bill allowed the president to reduce tariffs if he felt doing so would achieve foreign policy goals.
What is the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act?
400
This administration created more than 8 million jobs and also employed writers, photographers, and other artists.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
400
The main areas in which the allies fought the Germans during World War II.
What are Russia and the Mediterranean?
500
Roosevelt pursued isolationist goals through these acts.
What are the neutrality acts?
500
This senator lead a commission in 1936 that revealed unwholesome activities by American Arms Manufacturers, such as lobbying to enter World War I, bribing foreign officials, and supplying fascist governments with weapons.
Who is Senator Gerald Nye?
500
The meeting at which Roosevelt and Churchill discussed war aims such as disarmament, self-determination, freedom of the seas, and guarantees of each nation's security.
What is the Atlantic Charter Conference?
500
This followed automobiles and quickly became a very popular form of entertainment. Ten million families owned one.
What is the radio?
500
Two purposes of Hollywood's propaganda films during World War II.
What is to encourage support on the home front and to boost the morale of troops overseas?