| A | B |
|---|
| League of Nations | First organization of main countries of the World |
| US role in League of Nations | President Wilson proposed it; U.S. didn't join |
| Prohibition | 1919-32 when manufacture, sale and distribution of alcohol was illegal |
| Supporters of Prohibition | churches, bosses, families |
| Issue in Scopes Monkey Trial | Ability to teach evolution in schools |
| Results of Scopes Monkey Trial | John Scopes originally guilty but later reversed; few states pass similar laws |
| Causes of Great Depression | over-investment in risky stock market |
| Results of stock market crash | poverty, businesses go bankrupt, loss of jobs, bank closures, loss of housing |
| President Hoover's Response to Depression | Passing Hawley-Smoot Tariff |
| Tariff | A tax on goods imported (bought from) another country |
| Risks of tariffs | trade wars with other countries |
| President Franklin Roosevelt's (F.D.R.) response to Depression | Implemented New Deal |
| Programs of New Deal | Tennessee Valley Authority, WPA (Works Progress Administration), Bank Holiday, National Labor Relations Act, Social Security Act, Fair Labor Standards Act |
| FDR using Public Relations during Depression | Fireside chats on the radio; photographers showing suffering |
| Holocaust | Germany's effort to exterminate the Jews |
| Results of Holocaust | death of 6 million Jews; creation of country Israel |
| Eugenics | Attempt to improve human population through selective breeding |
| Positive eugenics | encouraging people with certain desired characteristics to reproduce |
| Negative eugenics | preventing people with certain undesirable characteristics to reproduce through sterilization, killing, etc. |
| Countries with large empires (before WWII) | England and France controlled 1/3 of world |
