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What is the Lusitania?
This sinking of this passenger ship helped push the US into the war
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Who are Sacco & Vanzetti?
Tried and convicted for robbery and murder (or being Italian Anarchists?)
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What is the New Deal?
FDRs plan for fixing the nation
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What is rationing?
During the war the government instituted a policy that restricted the public use of items that were deemed essential to the military like sugar, gasoline, coffee, etc.
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Who is Rosie the Riveter?
Women who began working in traditionally male jobs during WWII were known by this name
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What are the 14 points?
Wilson's plan for peace after WWI
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What is Nativism?
Prejudice against foreign-born people that swept the nation in the 1920s
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What is Black Tuesday?
The day the market crashed
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What is D-Day?
The largest amphibious invasion in history on June 6, 1944
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What is the Dust Bowl?
Due to over-farming and a prolonged drought a large portion of the mid-west could not grow crops
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What is Schenck v. the US?
Supreme Court case that restricted freedom as speech (as shouting "FIRE" in a crowded theater)
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Who is Henry Ford?
Didn't invent the automobile, but revolutionized the production to make them affordable for everyone
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What the Bonus Army?
20,000 Veterans of WWI sought their due compensation by marching on the capital
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What are the Neutrality Acts?
In an attempt to limit involvement in the European war, the US Congress passed a law limiting trade with countries at war
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What is Social Security?
This New Deal reform included payments to elderly, unemployed, and disabled people.
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What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Established the League of Nations, but also harshly punished Germany
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What is the Scopes Trial?
The tension between modern science and traditional values faced off in the court room in this famous case about evolution in the classroom
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What is Civilian Conservation Corps?
Sought to provide jobs in the wilderness for young men
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What is the Arsenal of Democracy?
By creating Cash-and-carry and the Lend-Lease Act Roosevelt was attempting to make America into what he called the ___
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What is 4?
The number of times Franklin Roosevelt was elected president
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Who is Henry Cabot Lodge?
His criticism of the League of Nations kept the US from joining the international organization (and caused Wilson to die of a broken heart).
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What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The renewal of African American cultural expression and creativity centered in New York City
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What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
Established to reassure the public that money deposited in banks will be protected from loss
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What is the Manhattan Project?
The secret project to develop a nuclear bomb
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What is The Great Migration?
The movement of hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the rural South to cities in the North
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