The Great War
Wilson's plan for a just & lasting peace
Fourteen Points
A production system in which the item being built moves along a conveyor belt to various work stations; created by Henry Ford
Assembly line
Young women in the 1920s that lived a life of independence & freedom
Flappers
Nickname given to the collapse of the stock market
Black Tuesday
Government-funded building projects that provided jobs to those suffering during the Great Depression
Public Works
Form of combat where soldiers dig ditches to seek protection & defend their position
Trench Warfare
Widespread fear of communism
Red Scare
The unofficial capital of African American culture in the 1920s
Harlem
Buying stocks with loans from bankers
Buying on Margin
32nd President; led America through the Great Depression
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Which Nations comprised the Central Powers?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, & the Ottoman Empire
Soldiers returning from WW1 brought back what disease, causing an epidemic in 1918?
influenza
First woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean
Amelia Earhart
Makeshift shantytowns that sprung up during the Great Depression
Hoovervilles
A system of providing pensions for many Americans age 65+
Social Security
Heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, whose assassination sparked the beginning of the Great War
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Payments designed to make up for war damages, usually paid for by the losing side
Reparations
The major relocation of Southern African Americans to Northern cities from 1910-1920s, looking for a better life
The Great Migration
People who hopped trains to look for work
Hoboes
Conversational radio addresses by President Roosevelt to ease Americans concerns
Fireside Chats
Policy where a nation avoids entanglement in foreign wars
Isolationism
Everyone sharing equally in society's wealth is a basic principle of what type of what political theory?
Communism
Illegal bars where alcohol was served during the Prohibition era
Speakeasy
Along with agricultural practices, what did the Great Plains drought of the 1930s help create?
The Dust Bowl
What were the three main goals of the New Deal?
relief, recovery, & reform