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The secret message sent from Germany asking Mexico to join World War I and attack the United States in exchange for lost territory.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
The era associated with the 18th Amendment, speakeasies, bootleggers, and the rise of organized gangsterism.
What is Prohibition?
The U.S. President who was widely blamed for the economic crisis and whose name was given to cardboard shantytowns.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
The popular New Deal program that hired young men for direct government jobs focused on environmental conservation and forestry.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
The December 7, 1941 surprise military attack that President Roosevelt declared would "live in infamy."
What is Pearl Harbor?
The movement during and after World War I where thousands of African Americans left the rural South for factory jobs in the American North.
What is the Great Migration?
The manufacturing process perfected by Henry Ford that dramatically drove down production costs and made automobiles affordable.
What is the Assembly Line?
Financial panics where desperate bank customers rushed to withdraw all their money, causing thousands of banks to fail.
What are Bank Runs?
The landmark 1935 law that created old-age pensions, aid for disabled citizens, and unemployment insurance.
What is the Social Security Act?
The famous cultural icon used in U.S. government posters to recruit and persuade women to enter defense industry factory jobs.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
President Woodrow Wilson's peace proposal that included freedom of the seas, reduction of military weapons, and an end to secret alliances.
What are the Fourteen Points?
The economic trend of the 1920s driven by modern advertising, mass media, motion pictures, and home appliances.
What is Consumerism?
The severe environmental calamity on the Great Plains that forced over two million people ("Okies") to migrate westward to California.
What is the Dust Bowl?
The pre-WWII foreign trade policy that allowed the U.S. to supply war materiel to Allied nations if they paid cash and transported the goods themselves.
What is Cash and Carry?
The military strategy utilized by Allied commanders in the Pacific Theater to bypass heavily fortified islands and advance closer to Japan.
What is Island Hopping?
The period of fear and paranoia following World War I sparked by the Bolshevik Revolution, labor unrest, and rising anti-immigrant sentiment.
What is the Red Scare?
The 1920s cultural movement that brought African-American literature, music, art, and identity into the national spotlight.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
A primary cause of the Great Depression where farm and industrial production outpaced consumer demand following World War I.
What is Overproduction?
In FDR's First Inaugural Address on March 3, 1933, he declared that the nation's "greatest primary task is to put people to work." To do so, this New Deal Program was created.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
The presidential order signed by FDR in 1942 that led to the forced relocation and internment of Japanese Americans.
What is Executive Order 9066?
The official foreign policy maintained by the United States before entering World War I, which was repeatedly challenged by German submarine activity.
What is Neutrality? (Isolationism)
The specific 1935 New Deal agency logo you would expect to see posted on the door or window of a financial institution to reassure depositors.
What is the FDIC?
The landslide presidential race that demonstrated how deeply the Great Depression made voters eager to change national leadership.
What is the Election of 1932?
he federal agency established under FDR to protect individual bank savings accounts up to a legally protected amount.
What is the FDIC?
The June 1942 naval battle that crippled Japanese naval strength and turned the tide of fighting in the Pacific Theatre.
What is the Battle of Midway?