WWI
Germany used this as a type of warfare- it led to the sinking of the Lusitania
What was unrestricted submarine warfare?
Many feared the rise of communism in the US and immigration restrictions increased
What was the Red Scare?
A cause of the Great Depression in which people borrowed money from the bank to purchase stock
What is buying on the margin?
What was the Bank Holiday?
This allowed the president to send aid to the Allies during WWII without the US actually entering the war
What was the Lend Lease policy?
What was the Zimmerman telegram?
this prohibited the buying and selling of alcoholic beverages
What was the 18th Amendment?
The president who refused to help during the Great Depression and thought the government would fix itself
Who was Herbert Hoover?
This gave retired workers a pension under the Second New Deal, and is still in use today
What was the Social Security Act?
This brought the US into WWII on December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy
What was the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Many African Americans moved from the South to the North to escape Jim Crow and to find better jobs
What was the Great Migration?
This allowed for mass production which resulted in more affordable prices. Henry Ford was the first to use it
What was the assembly line?
This was caused by over farming, poor farming techniques, and drought
He was an opponent of FDR and said we should "share the wealth"
Who was Huey Long?
This battle gave back control of the Pacific to the Allies in which part of the Japanese fleet was destroyed
What was the Battle of Midway?
Eugene Debs was arrested for violating this act because he opening spoke out against the war
What was the Sedition Act?
This gave women the right to vote
What was the 19th Amendment?
These were shantytowns in which homeless people used whatever materials they could find to make shelters
What were Hoovervilles?
She was the wife of FDR and changed the role of the first lady by taking an active role in politics, and served as the US representative to the United Nations
Who was Eleanor Roosevelt?
This was the secret plan to develop and use nuclear weapons
What was the Manhattan Project?
President Woodrow Wilson's plan for peace
What was Wilson's 14 Points?
This encouraged Africans Americans to embrace and celebrate their culture
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
Herbert Hoover lost the election of 1932 to him
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
These were the 3 parts to the Neal Deal programs
What was "relief, recovery, reform"?
These camps were used to house Japanese Americans during WWII
What were Japanese Internment camps?