WWII | Great Depression | 1920s | Imperialism and WWI | West and Progressivism |
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Pearl Harbor
What surprise attack led to the United States entering the WWII?
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What is
What was the name of the severe drought to hit the Midwest during the 1930s?
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Moonshine
1) What was the name for alcohol made illegally in the U.S.?
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Rough Riders
Teddy Roosevelt led what group of soldiers in Cuba?
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Women's voting rights.
The National American Women Suffrage Association fought for women’s suffrage.
What does this mean they fought for? |
Allowed the British to keep fighting
Explain why Dunkirk was so important
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What is
What law created the FDIC?
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Speakeasy
What was the name of an illegal bar during prohibition?
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Germany
What country invented the Schlieffen Plan in case they had to fight a two front war?
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Meat Inspection Act
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle led to the passage of what law?
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Manhattan Project
What American project created the Atomic Bomb?
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What is
What was the name given to poor drifters during the Dust Bowl?
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Al Capone
What man earned the nickname “scarface” as a bouncer for a gang in New York?
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Lusitania
What cruise ship was sunk without warning, killing over 100 Americans who were on board?
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Social Darwinism
What was the name of the belief that people should be left to fend for themselves and that the strong would survive and become rich and only the weak would stay poor.
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Normandy
What region of France was the site of the D-Day invasion?
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What is
Jobs program for young men during the
New Deal that gave them jobs in the country’s wilderness areas |
Langston Hughes
Who was the most famous poet of the Harlem Renaissance?
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Signed at gunpoint
Why was the Hawaiian Constitution of 1887 called the “Bayonet Constitution”?
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3 candidates, split vote, Wilson wins
What was odd about the election of 1912 and what were the results?
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Giving in to demands in order to avoid war
What was appeasement
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What is
Massive program designed to take
advantage of the resources of the Tennessee River Valley |
Marcus Garvey
What African American activist promoted the “return to African movement”?
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Economic Recession
What was the Panic of 1893?
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Made segregation legal
What did the Supreme Court decide in Plessy v Ferguson
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