Definitions
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism
What is M.A.I.N?
Sunk by German U-boat in 1915.
What is the sinking of the Lusitania?
Created the New Deal Plan
Who is FDR?
Banned anyone from the “Asiatic Barred Zone” from entering the U.S.
What is the 1917 Immigration Act?
This movement was to dismiss the traditional American standards of writing and discover and utilize their own style of writing to signify their cultural identity.
What is literature?
A young woman enjoying herself and flouting standards of behavior.
What is a flapper?
Help lead the final Allied offensives in Summer 1918.
What is America enters the war?
A biology teacher in Tennessee was taken to court and fined for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution.
Who is John Scopes?
Signed into law by President Warren G. Hardin. The U.S. would pressure San Francisco to end segregated schools.
What is the Quota Act of 1921?
Forces Russia to leave the war.
What is a revolution?
The movement of 6 million blacks from the south to the north from 1916-1970.
What is the Great Migration?
A social explosion in Harlem, New York, spanning in the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Rennisance?
Created a plan for long-lasting peace
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
The Treaty that forced Germany to accept full responsibility for the war.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Long, deadly battle throughout 1916.
What is the battle, Verdun?
A secret message from Germany to Mexico that proposed an alliance against the U.S.
What is the Zimmerman Telegraph?
Occurred on October 29, 1929, and on this day the Stock Market crashed. This started the Great Depression.
What is Black Tuesday?
Led the communist Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
Woodrow Wilsons' plan for long-lasting peace, that caused conflicts with Europe and Germany.
What are 14 points?
A dominant art form for Harlem Renaissance artists who worked for the WPA.
What is a mural?
Promotion of the fear of communism in a state?
What is the Red Scare?
In 1925, a Biology teacher in Tennessee was taken to court and fined for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution.
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
Performers who helped develop the "Jazz Age"
Who is Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, and Cab Calloway?
Increased the tax paid by new immigrants upon arrival to the United States.
What is the 1924 Immigration Act?
Great Britain and France divided up the Middle East.
What is the Mandate System?