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1920s
The Great Depression
The New Deal
Rise of the Dictators
WWII
100
This trial focused on the law that made it unlawful to teach evolution in any state-funded school.
What is Scopes Monkey Trial?
100
borrowing money from a broker to purchase stock
What is buying stock on margin and speculation?
100
Securities and Exchange commission Federal deposit insurance corporation social security act National Labor Relations Act Fair Labor Standards Act
What are New Deal Programs
100
Acts that were passed because of the growth in isolationism and non-interventionism in the US following its costly involvement in World War I, and sought to ensure that the US would not become entangled again in foreign conflicts.
What is Neutrality Acts?
100
The most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II.
What is battle of Midway?
200
The unlawful consumption and selling of alcohol.
What is Prohibition?
200
Sudden decline of stock prices in 1929.
What is Stock Market Crash?
200
a series of thirty evening radio addresses given by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944
What is Fireside chats?
200
Germany, Italy and Japan
What is Axis Powers?
200
The Normandy landings were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, France during World War II.
What is D-Day?
300
The promotion of fear with the rise of communism and leftist ideas in the US.
What is Red Scare?
300
President who believed that the government should stay out of the Great Depression.
Who is Hoover?
300
“Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself” FDR
What is FDR's Inaugural Address?
300
Allowed for the selling of military weapons and supplies to allied powers as long as they would transport the supplies themselves.
What is Cash and Carry and Lend Lease?
300
The United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization
What is conferences at Yalta and Potsdam?
400
These women represented freedom, liberation and women's rights in the 1920s.
Who are Flappers?
400
A period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands in the 1930s
What is Dust bowl?
400
Influenced the passing and acceptance of the New Deal across the nation. She was the eyes and ears of her husband.
Who is Elanor Roosevelt?
400
The date of Pearl Harbor.
What is 12/4/41
400
This was dropped in order to stop the fighting on the Pacific with Japan.
What is the a-bomb?
500
Two Italian immigrants who were accused and sentenced to death for murder. They were suspected anarchists.
Who are Socco and Vanzetti?
500
Veterans who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand immediate cash-payment redemption of their service certificates.
What is Bonus Army?
500
The act was an attempt to limit what were seen as dangers in the modern American life, including old age, poverty, unemployment, and the burdens of widows and fatherless children.
What is social security Act?
500
A series of nation-wide centralized economic plans in the Soviet Union
What is Stalin's 5 year plan
500
Debt securities issued by a government for the purpose of financing military operations during times of war
What is war bonds?