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20's and 40's SG
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the nickname of the 1920’s? | Roaring 20's |
| What music predominated in the 1920’s? | Jazz |
| Who was called the Empress of the Blues? | Bessie Smith |
| Who was Duke Ellington? | Created the idea of Big Band Jazz |
| Who was Jelly Roll Morton? | Considered the father of New Orleans Jazz |
| What is a flapper? | young rebellious female of the 20’s, short tight dresses, drank and smoked |
| What did the 18th Amendment do? | Prohibited the sale and transportation of alcohol. |
| What did the Volstead Act do? | Enforced the 18th Amendment |
| What is a speakeasy? | Place where people could go to get illegal alcohol, gamble, and do other illegal activities |
| Name some famous gangster leaders. | Al Capone, Dutch Schultz, “Lucky” Luciano, “Baby Face” Nelson |
| What is buying on the margin? | Paying a small amount to a stockbroker and agreeing to pay the rest at a later time. |
| What was the Scopes Monkey Trial about? | Teaching of evolution |
| Who was the defense attorney in the Monkey Trial? | Clarence Darrow |
| Who was the prosecutor in the Monkey Trial? | William Jennings Bryan |
| What state had the highest number of KKK members in the 1920’s? | Indiana |
| What were the causes of the Great Depression? | Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the Treaty of Versailles |
| What is a margin call? | Stockbroker asked for his money to be paid back so that he had people to borrow. |
| Who was the President at the beginning of the Great Depression? | Herbert Hoover |
| What is a Hooverville? | A derogatory term used for a shanty town built in the Great Depression |
| What was the ecological disaster that happened in the Midwest in the 1920’s? | Dust Bowl |
| Who created the idea of a New Deal? | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| CCC | Civilian Conservation Corps, 18-25 year old young unmarried men to help build and work on National and state parks |
| TVA | Tennessee Valley Authority, created flood protection and hydroelectric power for rural Appalachia |
| NIRA | National Industrial Recovery Act, regulated wages and pieces in an effort to get the economy going |
| WPA | Works Progress Administration, created programs to hire actors,musicians, writers, playwrights to go to rural communities to bring activities |
| FDIC | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, US Government guaranteed a certain amount if a bank failed |
| AAA | Agricultural Adjustment Act, paid farmers not to plant fields and kill off some animals. |
| What was bank holiday? | Government shutdown of all banks until they could be checked out for stability |
| What was a fireside chat? | Roosevelt’s radio addresses to the American public |
| Who created the Share the Wealth program and what was his nickname? | Huey Long "Kingfish" |
| Who proposed the idea of social security for older Americans? | Dr. Francis Townsend |
| Who was the leader of Italy in the 1930’s? | Benito Mussolini |
| Who was the leader of Germany in the 1930’s? | Adolf Hitler |
| Who was the emperor of Japan in the 1930’s? | Hirohito |
| What groups were sent to concentration and extermination camps by the Nazi’s? | Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, physical and mentally handicap |
| What event started WWII? | Invasion of Poland |
| What event brought the US into WWII? | Pearl Harbor |
| Name the architect of Pearl Harbor. | Yamamoto |
| Which part of WWII did the US concentrate most of its forces in? | Europe |
| What did the US do with Japanese-Americans on the West Coast? | Put in internment (concentration) camps |
| Who led the Afrika Korps? | Erwin Rommel |
| Who was the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe? | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| What was Operation Overlord? | D-Day invasion of Normandy |
| What was special about the Battle of the Bulge? | Last German offensive of WWII |
| What is V-E Day? | Day that Germany surrendered to the Allies, Victory in Europe. |
| What was the turning point of the war in the Pacific? | Battle of Midway |
| What is island hopping? | Fighting on only certain islands and leaving others behind. |
| Who was the commander of the Southern Pacific for the US? | Douglas MacArthur |
| Who was the commander of the Central Pacific for the US? | Chester Nimitz |
| What was a kamikaze? | Japanese suicide pilot, "Divine Wind" |
| What was the Manhattan Project? Who was in charge? | US program to create an atomic weapon, Robert Oppenheimer |
| What was the first city to be destroyed by an atomic weapon? | Hiroshima |
| What was the second city to be destroyed by an atomic weapon? | Nagasaki |
| What is V-J Day? | Day that the Japanese government surrendered to the Allies, Victory over Japan |
| What is propaganda? | Information that is used to persuade a population into thinking one way or another |
| Who were the Allies? | US, Great Britain, Soviet Union |
| Who were the Axis Powers? | Germany, Italy, Japan |
| What was the Bonus Army? | Group of former WWI veterans that went to Washington to get money that was promised to them earlier, were tear gassed and had their Hooverville burned by the US Army, killed 2 infants |
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