American History 2, bench 3 Flashcards
women who wore outlandish dresses and cut their short and sassy were called
flappers
List three aspect of African American life during the 1920s.
Black Nationalism of Marcus Garvey
African American movement during the Great Migration
The excitement of Jazz and Soul music of the Harlem Renaissance
List three feelings of the 1920s caused in part by the large number of Eastern European immigrants coming to America.
Nativist anti-immigrant and anti-catholic feelings
Anarchist fears
Red Scare of Communism
The economic policy of Calvin Coolidge
Laissez-faire Economics
Who invents the new affordable car during the 1920s?
Henry Ford
The _____ had many causes including a decline in Automobile sales and all items that contributed to its manufacture.
Great Depression
Wall Street’s failure is sometimes called the _____
stock market crash
Many people needed free food during the Great Depression and obtained it at ____.
soup kitchens
Many people left the Midwest and moved to cities and/or California during a period called the ____.
Dust Bowl
During the 1920s, to remain a great people the United States embraced _______
Laissez-Faire Economics
During the 1930s, the United States pursued a foreign policy called _____.
Isolationism
Who pledged never to surrender to Hitler’s aggression?
Winston Churchill
List three facts about the Holocaust.
It was called Hitler’s Final Solution to the Jewish question.
SS St. Louis unsuccessfully attempted to rescue many Jewish refugees.
Auschwitz was a Nazi death camp.
She was the image of a woman war industry worker.
Rosie
Women joined the military in the ___.
Women’s Army Corps
He was the image of a male soldier
G.I.
This group of African American flyers performed superbly defending Allied Aircraft over Europe during World War II
Tuskegee Airmen
The _______ was the effort to produce an atomic weapon by the United States during World War II.
Manhattan Project
He led that the Black Nationalism movement in the United States during the 1920s.
Marcus Garvey
the ______ was when huge numbers of African Americans left the south in the early early 1900s to obtain industrial war work in the north.
The Great Migration
He flew in the Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic Ocean.
Charles Lindbergh
The idea of less government is the best government embraces ______.
Laissez-faire Economics
During the 1920s, which portion of society experienced a decline in prosperity?
Farmers
