Ch 23-28 (US History)

Question 1

Model T

Answer 1

Developed by Henry T
aka The Tinlizzie

Question 2

Assembly Line

Answer 2

Created by Henry Ford
Goods rolled past workers on a conveyer belt

Question 3

Auto-touring

Answer 3

Leisure time traveling/seeing friends
aka cruising

Question 4

Al Capone

Answer 4

Gangster of the 20s
Controlled sales of liquor during prohibition

Question 5

Flappers

Answer 5

New woman of the 20s
Smoke, drank, and partied
Defied female norms

Question 6

Prohibition

Answer 6

Cant manufacture, sell, or transport liquor

Question 7

18th amendment (1919)

Answer 7

Begins prohibition

Question 8

21st amendment (1933)

Answer 8

Repealed the 18th amendment
No more prohibition

Question 9

Speakeasies

Answer 9

illegal bars

Question 10

Scopes Trial (1925)

Answer 10

Trial of John Scopes
A science teacher prosecution for teaching the theory of evolution

Question 11

Jazz

Answer 11

Popular music of the 20s
Originated with African Americans

Question 12

Writers of the 1920s

Answer 12

wrote about society’s flaws: lost of morals, horror or death/destruction from WWI

Question 13

Palmer Raids

Answer 13

Anti-communist raids led by A Mitchell Palmer

Question 14

Red Scare

Answer 14

Panic over communist threat

Question 15

Reason for fearing communists in 1920s

Answer 15

Russia was just taken over by Lenin & Bolsheviks
People feared it will spread to the US

Question 16

Black Tuesday (1929)

Answer 16

The day of the stock market crash

Question 17

Causes of the Depression

Answer 17

Living on credit
Paying it back with little money
Bad farming techniques
Poor investing in stock market
Trade barriers
Failures of key industries

Question 18

Effects of the Depression

Answer 18

Hoovervilles
Lack of food–> breadlines/soup kitchens
Dust Bowl
Lack of jobs
Suicide rates increase
Lack of desire to go to school
No marriages or kids

Question 19

Bank Holiday

Answer 19

FDR closed all banks to stop the withdraw of money

Question 20

Hoovervilles

Answer 20

Under President Hoover
Shanty Towns
Homes were being made of cardboard

Question 21

Laissez Fair & Hoover

Answer 21

“hands off” or “less gov intervention”
Hoover (as a republican) thought things would fix itself

Question 22

Bonus Army Marchers

Answer 22

WWI veterans marched to DC wanting to get their bonus pension to feed their families
Turned away by the Hoover Admin

Question 23

Hawley-Smoot Tarrif

Answer 23

Raised US import duties
Goal: protect American farmers from foreign competitors
Caused other countries to retaliate
Reason for global trade decline

Question 24

New Deal

Answer 24

FDR slogan
“Every American will get a chance to succeed”

Question 25

Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)

Answer 25

Provided loans for businesses

Question 26

Dust Bowl

Answer 26

1930s Name given from a severe drought Happened in Great Plains area

Question 27

Black Blizzard

Answer 27

Top soil blown by winds--> caused errosion

Question 28

Correction Efforts of the Soil

Answer 28

Government paid farmers to practice conservation techniques Farmers got proper instruction CCC planted more than 200 million trees

Question 29

Packing the Court

Answer 29

Congress declared some of FDR New Deal details unconstitutional-->FDR tried to add another judge (on his side) to the court

Question 30

Anti-semitism

Answer 30

Hostility and Prejudice toward Jews

Question 31

Adolf Hitler

Answer 31

Killed 6 million Jews in the Holocaust

Question 32

Benito Mussolini

Answer 32

Leader of the Fascist Party Believed military government should be in control

Question 33

Black Shirts

Answer 33

Followers of Mussolini

Question 34

Joseph Stalin

Answer 34

Got rid of anyone in his way in the communist/red party

Question 35

Nazi Party

Answer 35

Led by Hitler who rose to power in the 1930s

Question 36

Brown Shirts

Answer 36

Followers of Hitler

Question 37

Francisco Franco

Answer 37

Spanish General Dictator Ruled Spain from 1939-1975

Question 38

Start and end of WWII

Answer 38

1939-1945

Question 39

Appeasement

Answer 39

To give in/satisfy Allies gave into Hitler to avoid problems

Question 40

why WWII began

Answer 40

Germany invaded Poland

Question 41

Blitzkrieg

Answer 41

"lightning war""' Fast type of air raid used by Germany

Question 42

Axis Powers

Answer 42

Germany, Italy, Japan

Question 43

Allied Powers

Answer 43

Britain, USSR, France, US

Question 44

why Japan wanted an empire in East Asia/Pacific

Answer 44

More resources Reduce dependency on imports

Question 45

Battle of Guadalcanal

Answer 45

Turned the tide of war in the Pacific

Question 46

Doolittle's raid

Answer 46

Moral booster for the US

Question 47

1941

Answer 47

Bombing of Pearl Harbor US enters WWII

Question 48

Atomic bomb dropped on...

Answer 48

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 49

VE Day

Answer 49

"Victory in Europe Day" End of WWII in Europe

Question 50

VJ Day

Answer 50

"Victory in Japan Day" Ending WWII in Pacific/overall

Question 51

Manhattan Project

Answer 51

when US built the nuclear bombs

Question 52

Potsdamn Conference (1949)

Answer 52

Meeting of Henry Truman (US), Winston Churchill (Great Britain), Joseph Stalin (USSR) Divided Germany into four zones of occupation

Question 53

Nuremberg Trials (1945-1949)

Answer 53

Wartime trials held in which allies prosecuted German military leaders

Question 54

Adolf Eichmann

Answer 54

Major organizer of the Holocaust Executed by hanging

Question 55

Hideki Tojo

Answer 55

Army officer Prime Minister of Japan Invaded Manchuria (1937)

Question 56

United Nations

Answer 56

International peace organization between all nations

Question 57

Zionism

Answer 57

Movement to establish a Jewish Nation