WW1
The assassination of this person lead to the start WWI
Who is Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand?
Constitutional amendment that made it illegal to produce, sell, or consume alcohol
What is the 18th Amendment?
Became president after winning the election of 1932 by a landslide. Introduced New Deal Programs to try and get America out of the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The name given to various programs created under the FDR administration to provide relief, recovery, and reform to the economy during the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
Executive Order 9066 violated the rights of this group of people
Who are Japanese Americans?
Movement of African Americans from the South to the North for jobs.
What is the Great Migration?
This president during WWI wanted the U.S. to remain neutral
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Nation-wide panic that arose from suspicion that communists would take over the U.S, following Bolshevik Revolution in Russia starting in 1919-1920s
What is the First Red Scare?
A condition in which production of goods exceeds the demand for them (surplus); underlying cause of Great Depression
What is overproduction?
This person was known as FDR's "eyes and ears" during his administration.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
Tragedy that took place on December 7, 1941, leading to US involvement in WWII
What is the Attach on Pearl Harbor?
Treaty that ended WWI. It blamed Germany for WWI and handed down harsh punishment.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
A policy that the Germans announced on January 1917 which stated that their submarines would sink any ship in the British waters.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
These visual aids convinced individuals that they needed new products and did not just want them during the 1920s, increasing consumerism.
What are advertisements?
Winner is the 1928 Presidential Election who is also blamed from the Great Depression
Who is Herbert Hoover?
New Deal program/law that provided for old-age pensions, unemployment insurance, and aid to the disabled.
What is the Social Security Act (SSA)?
The code name for the secret United States project set up in 1942 to develop atomic bombs for use in World War II.
What is the Manhattan Project?
An extended drought that affected much of the country, the use of unsustainable farming practices AND, poor understanding of the Great Plains ecosystem among farmers are the causes of...
What is the Dust Bowl?
This British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-Boat on May 7, 1915. Many American passengers died, pushing the US closer to involvement in WW1
What is the Lusitania?
Great Industrialist who developed the Assembly Line and Mass Production
Who is Henry Ford?
Depression shantytowns made up of a communities of cardboard box homes.
What are Hoovervilles?
New Deal program that was meant to get Americans to trust the banking system in the US by providing insurance on individual bank accounts with deposits up to $5000.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb
Who is Harry Truman?
War mobilization increased the country's...
What is the Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?
Sent by Germany to Mexico that encouraged Mexico to help Germany fight against the US if they entered war and in return Germany would help Mexico get their land back from the US.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
This person repeatedly ran for president as a socialist, he was imprisoned after he gave a speech protesting WWI in violation of the Espionage & Sedition Acts
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
A nickname for the Great Plains regions hit by drought and dust storms for almost a decade in the 1930's
What is the Dust Bowl?
This person fought for a better education system in the US because educated people make stronger citizens
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
A propaganda character designed to increase production of female workers in the factories. It became a rallying symbol for women to do their part.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
The difference between the Treaty of Versailles and Woodrow Wilson's 14 Point Plan
What is Germany having to pay reperations?
The government borrowing money from American people to finance WWI is called...
What are Liberty Bonds?
This person was the first true jazz superstar and he developed the jazz forms known as swing and scat
Who is Louis Armstrong?
The day the stock market crashed
What is Black Tuesday (October 29, 1929)?
Main critic of FDR who thought his NEW DEAL program did not do enough to help society.
Who is Huey P. Long?
Under President Harry Truman, the US dropped atomic bombs on these two Japanese cities. These bombings lead to Japan surrender.
What is Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This method used during the Pacific Theater in WWII conserved resources by targeting less-fortified locations that allowed US forces to strike Japan
What is Island Hopping?