Miscellaneous
The group who persecuted blacks (especially), Jews, Catholics, and other minority groups.
What was the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
At the height of the Depression, this fraction of the population of the U. S. were out of work.
What is 1/4?
FDR's program for recovery, relief, and reform.
What was The New Deal?
What is North Korea?
The term for the money Germany was required to pay after WWI per the Treaty of Versailles.
What are reparations?
The name of the region where there was a significant drought during the Depression.
What is the Dust Bowl?
FDR took the U. S. monetary system off of this.
What is the gold standard?
The name of the first satellite launched by the Russians.
What was Sputnik?
The treaty that was a pledge for nations to abstain from war.
What was the Kellogg-Briand Treaty?
The month, day, and year of the stock market crash.
What was October 29, 1929?
FDR gave diplomatic recognition to this country.
What is the U.S.S.R.?
The couple who were arrested and executed as spies for passing American atomic research information to the Russians.
Who were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
During this decade new laws restricted immigration into this country.
What were the 1920s?
The leading American humorist during the Depression.
Who was Will Rogers?
This plan helped European nations rebuild after WWII.
What was the Marshall Plan?
Whittaker Chambers accused this person, who was in the U.S. government, of being a Communist.
Who was Alger Hiss?
During the 1920s the use of ____________and radios increased.
What are cars?
During the Depression, this form of at-home entertainment was king.
What was radio?
The most powerful body in the UN.
What is the Security Council?
The senator who capitalized on a concern about Communist infiltration into the U.S. government.
Who was Senator Joseph McCarthy?