| A | B |
|---|
| Isolationism | non-involvement in world affairs |
| Flappers | young women intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior |
| Hooovervilles | homeless people built shacks or shantytowns named after president for bitter feelings |
| Neutrality | state of not supporting of helping either side |
| Dust Bowl | Great Plains during 1930s when they experienced black blizzards |
| Propaganda | information used to mislead, promote, publicize, or criticize a certain point of view |
| Dictator | ruler who uses fear and force to control |
| Fascism | extreme nationalism |
| Communism | government owns and controls all; everyone equal |
| Prohibition | not allowed to make, sell, or transport alcohol |
| Great Depression | worst and largest economic collapse in history of modern world |
| Black Thursday | October 24, 1929 - stock market started declining |
| Black Tuesday | October 29, 1929 - stock market crashed and bank system collapsed |
| What caused US to enter WWI | German u-boats attack US ships, Zimmerman Telegraph, and to protect democracy |
| New Weapons of WWI | Machine gun, gas, tanks, airplanes, u-boats, zeppelin, long-range cannons |
| Trench Warfare | areas dug to protect soldiers from gunfire, no-man's land, snipers, trench foot, rats, lice, unsanitary conditions |
| Effects of WWI | Treaty of Versailles, Russia becomes Soviet Union, millions killed and wounded, wartime effects on innocents, Lost Generation |
| Causes of Great Depression | income gap, bought on credit, farmers lose money, international problems, inflated prices, belief that everyone could be rich |
| Effects of Great Depression | decline in production/sell of goods, unemployment, businesses and banks closed, people lost property and money, and depended on charity to survive |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | paralyzed by polio, governor of NY, became president in 1932, passed new programs to deal with money problems |
| New Deal / Alphabet Agencies | new programs to fix financial problems from Great Depression |
| The Hundred Days | first three months of FDR's presidency, incredible productive time in government |
| Hitler | Germany's dictator - Nazi Party |
| Mussolini | Italy's dictator / Fascist Party |
| Stalin | Soviet Union's dictator / Communist Party |
| Churchill | Britain's Prime Minister |
| Allied Powers | US, Britain, France, Canada, Soviet Union |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, and Japan |
| Who won WWII? | Allied Powers |
| America Pre-World War II | Neutrality, Lend-Lease Act, shoot on sight order, Atlantic Charter, freezes Japan's assets, stops trade with Japan, peace talks with Japan |
| December 7, 1941 | Japan attacked Pearl Harbor |
| June 6, 1944 | D-Day / Allied invasion of France |
| October 29, 1929 | Black Tuesday / stock market crashed and banks closed |
| August 6, 1945 | US dropped atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan |
| August 9, 1945 | US dropped atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan |
| Attack on Pearl Harbor | Hawaii, surprise attack, planned 3 waves only used 2, spies, successful, caused US to declare war on Japan and Germany |
| D-Day | Allied invasion of France, 5 beaches, amphibious assault, used paratroopers night before |
| What 3 countries invaded France on D-Day? | US, Britain, and Canada |
| Japanese Internment Camps | 110,000 relocated and imprisoned during WWII because of fear and suspicion |
| Holocaust | Nazi genocide of the Jews |
| War off NC Coast | 1942, Outer Banks, German U-boats attack US ships, Torpedo Junction |
| Effects of War on NC citizens | adapt to hearing explosions, black out curtains at night, no spreading info, no swimming, feared war in US |
| 18th Amendment | can not make, sell, or transport alcohol |
| 21st Amendment | alcohol is legal in US / repealed 18th Amendment |
| Bootlegging | illegally selling alcohol |
| Consequences of Prohibition | crime increased, jobs decreased, economy down, government lost money, bootlegging and speakeasies, gangsters |
| Culture of 1920's | Jazz, new dances (Charleston, Fox Trot) Flappers, moral decline in US |
| Why was US such a superpower during WWII? | mass production / didn't know strength of country until that war |
| What action weakened Germany during WWII? | Germany attacked Soviet Union and had to fight on 2 fronts |
| What happened to Russia during WWI? | became Soviet Union |
