Causes and consequences of The Great Depression
Day the stock market crashed
When was October 29, 1929?
United States foreign policy until 1945
What was neutrality?
This new deal program gave young adults employment to work on various conservation projects.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps/ CCC?
United States military base on Hawaii that was bombed by Japan, bringing the United States into World War II.
What was Pearl Harbor?
Book that exposed the horrible conditons in meat processing plants.
what was The Jungle by Upton Sinclair?
Camps built outside of major cities by people who had lost their homes during the great depression, named after the president at the time.
What were Hoovervilles?
German submarines used in World War I
What were U-Boats?
New Deal program intended to provide jobs
What was The Works Progress Administration/ WPA?
act that allowed America to sell, lend or lease arms or other supplies to nations considered "vital to the defense of the United States."
What was The Lend-Lease Act?
Ruled that seperate but equal was constitutional
Plessy V Ferguson
Economic cycle based on peaks and throughs
What is the boom and bust cycle?
Woodrow Wilson's plan for post-war peace
what were the fourteen points?
Insures money that is deposited into banks.
What is the FDIC?
Battle that marked a turning point in World War II in which the Japanese lost four aircraft carriers.
What was The Battle of Midway?
18th amendment
what was prohibition?
Buying large amounts of stock with loaned money.
What is buying on margin?
A telegram sent by Germany to convince Mexico to attack the U.S.
What was the Zimmerman Telegram?
This new deal program brought electricity to the Tennessee Valley
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority/ TVA?
Code name for the U.S. effort during World War II to create the atomic bomb.
What was The Manhattan Project?
Founder of the NAACP
Who was W.E.B Dubois?
overproduction
What is when a company makes more products (TVs, Cars, Radios, etc) than people are willing to buy?
British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-Boat, and turned American opinion against Germany, helping America move closer towards entering WWI
what was the Lusitania?
Helped establish a minimum wage, set working hour limits, and allowed for unions to bargain collectively. Was later deemed unconstitutional.
What is the NRA?
The two japaneese cities that america hit with nuclear bombs.
What Was Hiroshima, and Nagasaki?
Journalism meant to expose corruption and wrongdoing in established institutions
What is Muckracker Journalism?