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Chapters 6-11
World War I
The Roaring Twenties
The Great Depression
World War II and The Constitution
100
This amendment to the constitution abolished (got rid of) slavery.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment
100
What important event occured between 1914-1918?
What is World War I
100
This term is used to describe a young women who was rebellious, energetic, fun-loving, and bold. These women symbolized a revolution of manners and morals in the 1920s.
What is a flapper
100
What is the significance of the date 1929?
What is the Great Stock Market Crash
100
What is the significance of the date December 7, 1941?
What is the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
200
What significant year in American History did the U.S. become a world power and the Spanish American War occur in?
What is the year 1898
200
How did the U.S. finance World War I? (3 answers)
What is Liberty Bonds, rationing, daylight savings time
200
Eliminate drunkennes and the resulting abuse of family members and others, get rid of saloons where vice thrived (such as prostitution and gambling), and to prevent absenteeism and on the job accidents stemming from drukenness were all ________________?
What is causes of Prohibition
200
Who won the presidential election of 1932?
What is Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
200
June 6, 1944 Allied troops invaded Normandy coast in France and attacked the Germans. This event led the Allies to retake control of Western Europe.
What is D-Day
300
Yellow fever and mismangment were some of the obstacles people faced while building this.
What is the Panama Canal
300
Finding the Zimmerman Note, the Russian Revolution and fear of communism, and when Germany violated the Sussex Pledge were all reasons for?
What is U.S. involvment in World War I
300
Bootleggers, speakeasies, and organized crime are all ____________?
What is effects of Prohibition
300
An unstable economy, overspeculation, and government policies were all ________________?
What is causes of the Great Depression
300
During the war, the goal of this was to fairly distribute scarce items. The economic effects were shortages, and it kept prices and inflation down.
What is rationing
400
During this era in American History a thin but glittering layer of prosperity (wealth) covered the poverty and corruption that plagued most of society.
What is the Gilded Age
400
The war nearly stopped the flow of immigrants from Europe. The armed forces had taken many young men out of the labor pool and businesses suddenly needed workers. African Americans began leaving the South to find work in factories in the north. What was this known as?
What is The Great Migration
400
Under Vladimir Lenin, the Bolsheviks took control of Russia in 1920 and renamed it the USSR, or Soviet Union. Many Americans feared Vladimir Lenin and his followers because they were communist. This intense fear of communism and other politically radical ideas in America was known as____________?
What is the Red Scare
400
What was the name of the 20,000 jobless World War I veterans who encamped in Washington D.C. during president Hoover's term and demanded immediate payment of a pension bonus that had been promised for 1945?
What is The Bonus Army
400
This battle was fought entirely from air. The U.S. sunk four Japanese carriers and the loss of 250 planes and skilled pilots was a devasting blow to Japan. After the battle, Japan was unable to launch any more offensive operations in the Pacific.
What is the Battle of Midway
500
In the late 1800s the invention of the ___________ and ____________ made it faster and more efficient to communicate with others.
What is the telegraph and telephone
500
President Wilson's program for keeping the peace.
What is the Fourteen Points
500
An African American literary awakening in the 1920s. (Langston Hughes was a well known writer during this time.)
What is the Harlem Renaissance
500
This was the highest import tax in history. It backfired and Europeans raised their own tariffs, slowing international trade.
What is The Haley-Smoot Tariff
500
The right to petition, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of press are guaranteed under this amendement to the constitution.
What is the First Amendment