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21st Amendment
Repealed Prohibition -
The 3 R's
Relief- money, food, shelter, and temporary charity.
Recovery- Programs aimed at industrial & agricultural recovery jobs
Reform- Lasting changes built-in safeguards. -
MAINE
M- Militarism
A- Alliances
I- Imperilism
N- Nationalism
E- Extreme leader -
Harry Truman
2nd Red Scare. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
An American general and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States. 38th parallel. -
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. -
Richard Nixon
NASSA achieves moon landing -
Trench Warfare
Where opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other. -
Assassination
Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in 1914. -
Central Powers
The central powers were Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire. -
Schlieffen Plan
It was designed to allow Germany to wage a successful two-plan war. -
Lusitania
It had happened in less than a year after World War I had happened. -
Sussex Pledge
Germany had instituted a policy of the unrestricted submarine warfare. -
Zimmerman Telegram
A secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office. -
U-Boat
A German submarine used in World War I to World War II. -
Treaty of Versailles
It was one of the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The treaty that Hitler violated when he rearmed and sent troops to Rhineland. -
Flapper
A young woman in the 1920's who declared her independence from traditional rules and all of their fashion styles. -
Installment Buying
Buying on credit and paying it back over time with interest -
Buying on Margin
The purchasing of stocks by paying only a small percentage which is (10%) of the price and then they would end up borrowing the rest. -
Harlem Renaissance
African American cultured showcased through a bunch of different things like literature, poetry, art, and music. -
Red Scare
The fear of communism in the 1920s. -
Fad
It is something that is very popular for only a short amount of time, and then it would be forgotten. -
Jazz
A style of music that was created by the African Americans that was very popular in the 1920s. -
Red
A radical, anarchist, or communist -
Conservative
Prefer traditions -
Liberal
Challenge traditions -
Teapot Dome Scandal
They leased an oil-rich land and in return they wanted bribery. -
Rural
Country areas with people living there. -
Urbanization
The growth of cities. -
Ku Klux Klan
It was a secret society, and their purpose was to ensure white supremacy over other people. -
Communism
Communism is a group of Americans that do not like change. -
Nativism
The belief that Americans were superior to everyone else. Became the basis for distrust of immigrants coming to America. -
Emergency Quota Act
Limited the number of incoming immigrants to the U.S. -
Palmer Raids
Measures to hunt out political radicals and immigrants who were potential threats to American society. -
Wet vs. Dry
Wet was when they were against prohibition. And dry was when they were in favor of prohibition. -
Bootlegger
Someone who has made alcohol illegally and or smuggled in it for a profit. -
19th Amendment
Gave women the right to vote, and women first voted. -
Immigration
Moving from one place to another. -
Calvin Coolidge
He became president when Warren Harding dies suddenly. -
Warren Harding
A president whose administration was racked with scandal, he died in office. -
Philippines
A territory of the US during 1920s, lots of immigrants to the US. -
F. Scott Fitzgerald
He wrote The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, and Tender to the Night. He had married someone named Zelda. He was also one of the Jazz Age authors. -
Prohibition
A time period when drinking, making, and selling alcohol was illegal. -
Louis Armstrong- Due Ellington- Count Bassie
Great jazz musicians. -
Speakeasies
A place where alcoholic beverages are sold and consumed illegally, during prohibition. -
Scab
A worker who replaces a striking worker, it can be a dangerous position to be in. -
Stirke
To stop working as a collective form of protest against an employer, often to achieve a specific aim. -
Vaudeville
A type of entertainment popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s consisting of a variety of singing, dancing, and comic acts. -
Charles Lindberg
Lindberg's plane, it hangs in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, in Washington DC. -
Ernest Hemingway
He wrote Farwell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises, and Old Man of the Sea, loved hunting, suffered from depression, one of America's greatest authors -
18th Amendment
Amendment that outlaws alcohol. -
Yellow Dog Contract
An agreement between an employer and an employee in which the employee agrees, as a condition of employment, not to be a member of a labor union. In the United States, such contracts were, until the 1930s, widely used by employers to prevent the formation of unions. -
Indian Citizenship
The act that made Indians citizens. -
National Origins Act
A law that severely restricted immigration by establishing a system of national quota's that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe. -
Fidel Castro
A Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as a Prime Minister. -
Amelia Earhart
First women to fly across the Atlantic. -
Long term causes
Long term causes of the Great Depression
Industry, stock market, agriculture, uneven wealth distribution. -
Hoover
They blamed Hoover for the depression because of suffering. Also, Hoovervilles were named after Hoover. -
How Hoover tried to end the Depression.
He tried to help by signing the Hawley-Smoot Tariff, raised protective tariffs, but the efforts did not work. -
The Great Depression
It lasted from 1929-1939. The worst economic downturn in the world. It began after the stock market crash. -
Herbert Hoover
President who unsuccessfully tried to fix the Great Depression through volunteer efforts and hopes. -
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
An act implementing protectionist trade policies. -
Bonus Army
Was when WWI vets marched on Washington D.C. -
Brain Trust
Experts who advise him beyond his cabinets. -
CCC
High unemployment during the Great Depression by putting hundreds of thousands of young men to work. -
NIRA (National Industrial Recovery Act)
A labor law and consumer law passed by the US Congress authorize the President to regulate industry for fair wages and prices. -
AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act)
It was a federal law passed in 1933 as part of U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal -
TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)
A federally owned corporation in the United Sates created by congressional charter to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation and many other things. -
New Deal
A series programs and projects instituted during the Great Depression by Franklin D. Roosevelt that aimed to restore prosperity to Americans. -
SEC
To restore the public's confidence in financial markets after the stock market crash. -
Joachim Peiper
He was a field officer and a personal adjutant to Reichsfuhrer-SS. -
European Theater
It was a huge area of heavy fighting across Europe from Germany's invasion. Name given to the fighting that took place in Europe. -
George Patton
A general of the United States Army who commanded the U.S. Seventh Army in the Mediterranean theatre of World War II. -
Allies World War 2
The allies were Great Britain, France, Soviet Union, and the United States. -
Axis Powers World War II
Germany, Italy, and Japan -
Cash-n-Carry Policy
Purpose to aid the Allies -
Ethiopia
Italy gained control of. -
Austria
Hitler took over. -
Austria
Hitler took over. -
Austria
Hitler took over. -
Austria
Hitler took over. -
Austria
Hitler took over. -
Austria
Hitler took over. -
Austria
Hitler took over. -
Austria
Hitler took over. -
Austria
Hitler took over. -
Austria
Hitler took over. -
Austria
Hitler took over. -
Lebensraum
"Living Space" Hitler wanted more room for the Germans. -
Poland
Germany invaded Poland with Blitzkrieg attack (world war II begins). -
Phony War
Period of no fighting September 1939- April 1940 -
Manchuria
Japan gained control of. -
Rhineland
Hitler put the military in this demilitarized zone. -
Appesement
Giving in to the demands of an aggressor in order to keep the peace. -
Sudetenland
Part of Czechoslovakia that Hitler wanted to control -
Allied Powers
The Allies were Serbia, Russia, France, United Kingdom, Belgium, and the United States. -
Lend-Lease Act
Allowed the U.S. to ship arms and other supplies are manufactured or stored, also the war supplies themselves. -
Pacific Theater
A series of battles during World War II took place. -
Kamikaze
Involving or engaging in the deliberate of crashing of a bomb-filled airplane into a military target -
Rationing
A restriction of people's rights. -
Fascism
A political philosophy that advocates a strong centralized government. -
Attack
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. -
Battle of the Bulge
It was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front. Hitler's last major offensive. -
D-Day
Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normand June 6, 1944. -
The Arms Race
It was a competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States and the Soviet Union. -
The iron curtain
A national barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in Eastern Europe in 1989. -
Truman Doctrine
An American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. -
Marshall Plan
An American initiative passed in 1948 to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over 12 billion dollars. -
Korean War
It was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on June 25, 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. -
Vietnam War
in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was an undeclared war in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. -
Berlin Wall
A wall that separated West Berlin, Germany, from East Germany, which surrounded it until 1989. -
John F. Kennedy
An American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States. -
Ronald Regan
An American politician who served as the 40th president of the United States. -
George Bush Sr.
The Soviet Union collapses.
