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Industrialization
World War I
G.Depression/New Deal
World War II
Miscellanous
100
leader in the oil industry
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
100
his assassination sparked WWI
Who was Archduke Ferdinand?
100
buying a stock hoping to make money as the stock value increases
What is stock speculation?
100
the President during WWII
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
100
A liberating young women in the 1920’s
What is a Flapper?
200
improved working conditions in the factories
What are unions?
200
the U.S. President during WWI
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
200
October 29, 1929, day the stock market crashed
What is Black Friday?
200
alliance between Italy, Germany, and Japan during WWII
What are the Axis Powers?
200
banned the selling, distribution, and consumption of alcohol
What is prohibition?
300
exclusive control over a product or service
What is a monopoly?
300
alliance of France, Russia, and Britain during WWI
Who was the Triple Entente?
300
FDR’s initial step to help during the Great Depression
What is the Emergency Banking Act?
300
alliance between U.S., Soviet Union and Britain during WWII
What are the Allied Powers?
300
the date of the Pearl Harbor attack.
What is December 7th, 1941?
400
office workers paid a standard salary
Who are white collar workers?
400
alliance of Germany, Italy, and Austria- Hungary
Who was Triple Alliance?
400
New Deal program created to help the elderly and disabled
What is social security?
400
ensured that the U.S. would stay out of WW II.
What are the neutrality acts?
400
exaggerated stories of atrocities in Cuba that appeared in American newspapers
What is Yellow Journalism?
500
created the mail catalog system
Who is Aaron Montgomery Ward?
500
organization created at the end of WWI, that the U.S. refused to join was
What is the League of Nations?
500
the President at the start of the Depression
Who was Herbert Hoover?
500
the two cities where the U.S. dropped atomic bombs
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
500
Cuba gained independence from Spain U.S. gained the Philippines after the Spanish American War
What are the results of the Spanish American War?