World War I
Interwar Period
Interwar Period Part 2
The New Deal
Misc
100

A serious condition that results from your feet being wet for too long. A reality of trench warfare.

Trench foot

100

The name given to the drought-stricken Southern Plains region of the United States, which suffered severe dust storms during a dry period in the 1930s. As high winds and choking dust swept the region from Texas to Nebraska, people and livestock were killed and crops failed across the entire region.

What is the Dust Bowl?

100
Nickname given to the day the stock market crashed in 1929.

What is Black Tuesday?

100

Name given to the method FDR employed to communicate the goals of the New Deal with the American people.

What is the Fireside Chats?

100

Granted women's suffrage

What is the 19th Amendment?

200

Name of the "passenger" ship that was sunk by German U-boats. This action became a key motivator for the United States joining the war.

Lusitania

200

This treaty set the stage for what the interwar period would be like. Signed after the Paris Peace Conference, a few decisions include German reparations and reduced army and self determination.

What is the Treaty of Versailles?


200

This group made a reappearance in response to the growing nativist attitudes in the early 1900s. Their primary targets shifted from African Americans, to immigrants, Catholics, and Jews.

What is the KKK or Ku Klux Klan?

200

New Deal goals can be summarized with these three R's

What is Recovery, reform, and relief?

200

FLOTUS who changed the position of the First Lady and traveled around the country writing My Day

Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?

300

Intercepted message from Germany to Mexico proposing Mexican involvement in the case the United States becomes involved in the war. A cause for US involvement.

The Zimmerman Telegram


300

Name of the trial that tested the cultural differences between urban and rural communities. On trial was a high school biology teacher who broke the law by teaching about the theory of evolution in his classroom.

What is the Scopes Trial?
300

Scandal during Harding's presidency in which Sec of Interior, Albert Fall, leased out oil reserves to private oilmen for bribes.

What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?

300

Insures bank deposits

What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or FDIC?

300

First female to hold a cabinet position

Who is Frances Perkins? (Sec of Labor)

400

German offensive plan to sweep around the north of Paris by going through Belgium. Development began in 1905, executed in August 1914.

The Schlieffen Plan

400

This coalition of nations proved to be ineffective. Proposed by President Wilson, the United States never actually joined due to Congress losing authority to declare war.

What is the League of Nations?

400

Fear that communist and socialist immigrants from East Europe would spread communism.

What is the Red Scare?

400

This act created a pension system for retirees and unemployment insurance for workers who lost their jobs. This is why all American citizens have a 9 digit number assigned to them.

What is the Social Security Act?

400

Restored tribal control over American Indian lands- stopped further land division.

What is the Indian Restoration Act of 1934?


500

Government entity formed during World War I. With its formation, the government could decide what farmers grow, what products are produced by industries, and how supplies moved around the nation.

What is the War Industries Board?

500

Flu epidemic beginning in 1918. 1/3 of the world's population was infected and claimed 675,000 American lives.

What is the Spanish flu?

500

Legislation that said the number of immigrants of a given nationality could not exceed 2% of the number of people of that nationality living in the US in 1890.

What is the National Origins Act?
500

Name of the government agency that employed citizens for conservation efforts of other public works projects.

What is the Civil Conservation Corps or Works Progress Administration?
500

"The most important and far-reaching legislation ever enacted by the American Congress." This established a federal minimum wage and minimum prices for goods to be sold (and more)

What is the National Recovery Administration?