Causes of WW1
This policy meant the U.S. stayed out of the war at first.
What is U.S. neutrality?
U.S. troops sent to Europe were called this.
What is the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)?
Buying something now and paying for it over time.
What is installment buying?
Women in the 1920s who challenged traditional behavior.
What is a flapper?
Law that banned alcohol in the U.S.
What is Prohibition (18th Amendment)?
German submarines used to attack ships.
What are U-boats?
Plan created by Woodrow Wilson to prevent future wars.
What are the Fourteen Points?
Method where workers repeat one small task in a factory.
What is an assembly line?
First movie with sound.
What is "The Jazz Singer"?
Trial about teaching evolution in schools.
What is the Scopes Trial?
German message asking Mexico to attack the U.S.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
Organization created to keep the peace after WWI.
What is the League of Nations?
Buying stocks with borrowed money.
What is buying on margin?
Famous writer who wrote about wealth and excess in the 1920s.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
Law that enforced Prohibition.
What is the Volstead Act?
German policy of attacking all ships, even civilian ones.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
Payments Germany had to make after the war.
What are reparations?
Time when stock prices were rising.
What is a bull market?
First person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
Illegal bars during Prohibition.
What are speakeasies?
Region fought over by France and Germany that caused tension.
What is Alsace-Lorraine?
Senators who refused to join the League of Nations no matter what.
Who are the Irreconcilables?
U.S. plan that loaned money to Germany to stabilize its economy.
What is the Dawes Plan?
African American cultural movement centered in New York City.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
System that limited immigration from certain countries.
What is the quota system?