Collapse of the Old World Order
The attitudes of paranoia and unrest that immediately followed WWI in the US were called this.
What is the Red Scare?
This business practice offered benefits for workers such as pension and profit sharing, subsidized housing, and paid vacations.
What is Welfare Capitalism?*
This event signaled - but did not necessarily cause - the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is the Great Stock Market Crash or Black Tuesday?
This battle halted the Japanese advance and broke Japanese naval supremacy in the Pacific.
What is Midway?*
In the Wisconsin Dairy Strikes, dairy farmers dumped this all over fields and roads.
What is milk?*
This document encouraged Mexico to attack the US as international conflict escalated.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
This new industry enabled Americans to purchase more products than ever before.
What is consumer credit or installment plans?
The First Lady during the Great Depression who was a passionate and outspoken advocate for the underdog and the disadvantaged.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
The systematic murder of millions of people in World War II.
What is the Holocaust?*
This boom industry took off in the 1920s and, stimulating economic growth and altering the landscape of American history.
What is the Automobile industry?*
This "add on" to the Monroe Doctrine aimed to justify US intervention in Caribbean countries.
What is the "Roosevelt Corollary"?
The Republican Presidents of the 1920s.
Who are Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover?
These WWI veterans marched on Washington to demand early payment of their wartime service certificates.
What is the Bonus Army?
Roosevelt's program to provide direct military aid to US allies near the start of WWII.
What is Lend-Lease?
June 6, 1944
What is D-Day or Operation Overlord?
The 1919-1920 searches and arrests of alleged "subversives" at the direction of the US Attorney General.
What are the Palmer Raids?
The 1920s outpouring of art and literature from African American communities in New York.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This New Deal program that allowed monopoly-style practices in hopes of forcing economic improvement.
What is the National Recovery Administration?
At this conference, a very sick Roosevelt helped establish a plan for Germany after the war.
What is Yalta?*
The sinking of this ship during WWI prompted American anger and encouraged US involvement in the war.
What is the Lusitania?*
During the Wilson Administration, a revolutionary situation led to the US invasion of this country.
What is Nicaragua?
The former presidential candidate who became a leading spokesman against the theory of evolution during the 1920s.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
The insurance program for the elderly enacted during the "Second New Deal"
What is Social Security?
The German military commander tasked with taking North Africa.
Who is Erwin Rommel?
The Nye Committee blamed this/these American industries for US involvement in WWI.
What is finance/banking?