| A | B |
|---|
| causes of WWI | militarism, alliances, jingoism, and imperialism |
| reasons for US neutrality | Wilson wanted to lead peace, trade with both sides, US population's support divided, Americans wanted isolationism |
| US response to Lusitania sinking | creation of the Arabic Pledge |
| direct cause of US joining WWI | Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare |
| John J. Pershing | leader of the American Expeditionary Force during WWI |
| Great Migration | African Americans moving North for war industry jobs |
| postwar challenge faced by US | finding jobs for returning soldiers |
| Selective Service | created because the US needed more soldiers to fight in WWI |
| Republican senators | objected to the League of Nations, felt it would drag US into foreign wars |
| Chateau-Thierry | stopped the Germany advance on Paris |
| War Industry Board | setting quotas for war materials production |
| Eugene Debs | arrested for delivering speeches that criticized the US war effort |
| Espionage and Sedition Acts | legislation that outlaw criticism of America's efforts in WWI |
| League of Nations | organization formed to ensure peace and international security |
| Republican administrations of the 1920s | proponents of laissez-faire and isolationism |
| Palmer Raids | response to the Bolshevik Revolution |
| installment plans | resulted in a consumer-based economy |
| Schenck v. United States | stated that speech presents a "clear and present danger" is prohibited |
| nativist sentiment | illustrated by the passage of the National Origins Act |
| Harlem Renaissance | an artistic movement of African Americans in the 1920s |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | trial verdict illustrated Americans' fear of potentially radical immigrants |
| Hawley-Smoot Tariff | hindered Europeans' ability to pay off their war debts |
| Kellogg-Briand Pact | nations agreed not to use war as a threat against each other |
| 19th Amendment | legalized women's suffrage |
| Scopes Trial | illustrated Americans' debate over fundamentalist religion versus modern science |
| Warren G. Harding's administration | associated with the Teapot Dome Scandal |
| Albert Fall | Warren G. Harding's Secretary of the Interior that was found guilty of leasing US navy oil reserves to a private company |
| the Lost Generation | American authors that were disheartened with society after WWI |
| Presidential Election of 1928 | Americans voted against Al Smith, because of many were concerned with his Catholic religion |
| Black Tuesday | many investors raced to sell their stocks |
| Dust Bowl | farming techniques had leeched needed minerals from the topsoil |
| Depression-era African Americans | discriminated against in employment and relief programs |
| Herbert Hoover | supported voluntary business reforms |
| Bonus Army | marched on Washington, D.C. in hopes of receiving their army pension early |
| Reconstruction Finance Corporation | provided credit to failing banks |
| Hoover and FDR | differed in their belief in how the Depression should solved |
| Buying on margin | the use of loan to purchase stock |
| National Recovery Administration | New Deal agency created to set codes for maximum hours and minimum wages |
| Brain Trust | intellectuals that advised FDR on how to pull the US out of the Depression |
| Second New Deal | programs that provided welfare benefits to those suffering through the Great Depression |
| Huey Long | believed that the New Deal did not do enough to solve the Depression |
| John Maynard Keynes | advocated the use of defecit spending to increase demand for goods |
| Black Cabinet | African Americans that occupied high government position in FDR's administration |
| Francis Perkins | first woman in a U.S. government cabinet position |
