World War I
This policy kept the United States out of World War I until 1917.
What is neutrality?
The movement of African Americans from the rural South to northern cities.
What is the Great Migration?
This international organization was created by the Treaty of Versailles but never joined by the United States.
League of Nations
This risky practice involved buying stocks with borrowed money.
What is buying on Margin?
This 1941 attack led directly to the United States entering World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
Germany's policy of attacking ships without warning.
What is Unrestricted Submarine Warfare?
This act of racial terror was used throughout the Jim Crow era to intimidate African Americans and enforce white supremacy, often without legal consequences for the perpetrators.
What is lynching?
This policy kept the United States out of European conflicts after World War I.
What is isolationism?
This occurs when many people simultaneously withdraw their money from banks, causing banks to collapse due to lack of cash on hand.
What is a bank run?
This symbol represented women working in factories during World War II.
Who is Rosie the Riverter?
This telegram proposed a German-Mexican alliance against the United States.
Zimmerman Note
This 1921 event began after allegations involving a Black teenager and a white woman and resulted in one of the deadliest episodes of racial violence in U.S. history.
What is the Tulsa Race Massacre?
This set of laws banned the United States from selling weapons or lending money to nations at war.
What is neutrality acts?
This program hired young men to work on conservation projects.
What is the CCC?
This 1942 executive order led to the forced relocation and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.
What is Executive Order 9066?
This British passenger ship was sunk by a German U-boat in 1915.
What is the Lusitania?
This Navy mess attendant became one of the first American heroes of Pearl Harbor after manning an anti-aircraft gun during the attack.
Who is Dori Miller?
This 1941 agreement allowed the United States to supply Allied nations with war materials before entering WWII.
What is the lend-lease act?
This theory explains how periods of economic growth are followed by decline, contributing to events like the Great Depression when spending and investment sharply contracted.
What is the business cycle?
The general who was in charge of the fake invasion that was created by Hollywood to fool Hitler at the Pas de Calais?
Who is General George S Patton?
Wilson proposed this plan to create a lasting peace after World War I.
This African American soldier became one of the most celebrated American heroes of World War I after fighting off a German raiding party in France.
Who is Henry Johnson?
The four provisions in the treaty of Versailles that Germany had to agree to
What is
1. Accept Total blame for WWI
2. Surrender extensive territories (including colonies)
3. Pay billions in war reparations
4. Severely disarm the military ?
This behavior fueled artificial growth in the stock market before the crash.
Stock speculation
This is the percentage of internees in the Japanese internment camp who were American citizens
What is 2/3rds?