WW1
WW2
Great Depression
Spanish-American War
Progressive Era
100
In Wilson 14-points, what specific organization was designed to create international peace?
What is the League of Nations?
100
Who is this?
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
100
This landmark piece of New Deal legislation created a federal safety net by providing old-age pensions unemployment insurance, and aid for dependent children.
What is Social Security Act?
100
Who was the president during the Spanish-American war?
Who is William McKinley?
100
Who is he, & What does this man reform for?
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Reformed for: Environment, Food safety, and railroad regulations.
200
Who was involved in WW1 & what groups were they in?
What is
Allies: France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, U.S, Japan
Central Powers: Germany, Austria, Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria
200
What was the operation called that brought together forces from the allied army's in what became known as the largest seaborne invasion in history.
What is D-Day?
200
This October 29 1929 event saw the dramatic drop of shares of stock effectively marking the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is Black Tuesday?
200
This style of writing exaggerated headlines about the Spanish to increase American war fever.
What is Yellow Journalism?
200
Upton Sinclair wrote this 1906 novel to expose the unsanitary conditions of the meatpacking industry.
What is " The Jungle "?
300
What was the spark that combined drew the United States into WW1?
What is Germany's use of unrestricted Submarine Warfare & The Zimmerman Telegram?
300
What secret operation by the U.S government created the first atomic bomb?
What was the Manhattan Project?
300
This environmental crisis caused by severe drought and over-farming.
What is the Dust Bowl?
300
This mysterious explosion of this American battleship in 1898, served as the ultimate trigger for the U.S Declaration of War against Spain.
What is the USS Maine?
300
This act made by Woodrow Wilson in 1913, decentralized the national bank to regulate the U.S money supply and credit system.
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
400
These two laws passed during WW1 made it a crime to " Utter, print, write or publish" anything criticizing the government.
What is Espionage and Sedition Acts?
400
Which act allowed the sales or loans of War materials to any country whose defense precedent deemed necessary to the defense of the U.S?
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
400
This fierce opposer of FDR and New Deal legislation gained massive following with his " share our wealth " society.
Who is Huey Long?
400
This treaty officially ended the Spanish-American war resulting in the U.S gaining Guam, Puerto Rico, and purchase of the Philippines.
What is the Treaty of Paris 1898?
400
She was a pioneering muckraker whose investigative journalism led to the breakup of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
500
This powerful federal agency held control over American industrial factories to increase production of military weapons.
What is the War Industries Board?
500
What executive order authorized the internment of Japanese Americans during WW2?
What is Executive Order 9066?
500
At this final conference in July 1945 the allied leaders issued an ultimatum demanding the Japanese to surrender and finalized the post-war division of Germany.
What is the Potsdam Conference?
500
This 1898 congressional amendment directly renounced any U.S. intentions to annex Cuba, promising to leave governance to its people once peace was restored.
What is Teller Amendment?
500
This book by Jacob Riis used photography to expose the harsh living conditions in New York tenements.
What is " How the Other Half Lives "?