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NC USH Goal 8 + 9
WWI to Great Depression Review by Matt Ingram
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The assassination of this man was the event that started WWI | Archduke Ferdinand |
| This letter was sent to Mexico by Germany encouraging Mexico to attack the US, this was the final reason for the US to enter the war | Zimmerman Note |
| This British liner with American passengers was sunk by a German u-boat | Lusitania |
| This type of fighting in WWI involved men fighting in long ditches that were very unsanitary | Trench warfare |
| Nickname for 1920s women who challenged society's double standard | Flapper |
| After WWI, Americans wanted to go back to a simpler way of life and back to neutrality, this was called "the return to ___________" | Normalcy |
| Area in the battlefield between armies fighting each other | No Man's Land |
| This term describes the US before WWI, when we wanted to stay out of foreign issues and not support either side in the war | Neutrality |
| System of travel where merchant ships were escorted and protected by warships so German u-boats couldn't sink them | Convoy system |
| 1920s African-American who led the Back to Africa movement | Marcus Garvey |
| Court case that ruled the Espionage and Sedition Act was permissable. This act limited free speech during wartime | Schenck v. US |
| Period of time in the 1920s when African-American art, literature and culture flourished | Harlem Renaissance |
| Theory that the government should do little to regulate or control the economy. This was supported by Republican presidents of the 1920s | Laissez faire |
| Agency in WWI that influenced companies to more efficiently produce materials for the war | War Industries Board |
| Woodrow Wilson's plan for world peace after WWI. He listed over a dozen ideas. | Fourteen Points |
| This is the fear that communists are taking over America after WWI. Labor union activity and anarchists and violence across the US spurred this thought | Red Scare |
| Hidden saloons and nightclubs that illegally sold alcohol | Speakeasies |
| Treaty that ended WWI and made the Germans accept blame for the war and forced them to pay the war damages | Treaty of Versailles |
| The name of FDR's overall effort to fight the depression | New Deal |
| Man who heavily criticized FDR's New Deal as it involved deficit spending. He was Huey ____ | Huey Long |
| Henry Cabot Lodge criticized Wilson's Fourteen Points for fear it would limit America's ability to wage war. This part of the government didn't approve Wilson's treaty | Senate |
| Teacher from Tennessee who was put on trial for teaching evolution in school. The trial was called the __________ Monkey Trial | Scopes |
| Movement of African-Americans north in search of jobs during WWI | Great Migration |
| New Deal program that brought electricity and dams to the rural parts of Tennessee | TVA |
| This was a cause of the stock market crash in 1929 where people borrowed money to buy stocks. Known as buying on ___________ | Margin |
| This tariff was the highest in US history and helped bring on the depression | Hawley Smoot |
| Money of food given directly from the government to needy people. Republicans opposed this, FDR supported this | Direct Relief |
| Neighborhood where people lived in shacks, named after the president at the start of the Depression | Hooverville |
| Name for WWI veterans who marched on Washington. Hoover forced them to leave which hurt his image | Bonus Army |
| Area of the midwest made worthless for farming by drought and dust storms | Dust Bowl |
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