Unit 7 The World Stage: WWI, Roaring 20s, & Great Depression

Question 1

Practice of buying an asset where buyer pays only a % of the asset's value and borrows the rest from the bank or broker

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Margin

Question 2

The outlaw in manufacturing, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages.

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Prohibition

Question 3

Dust storms wreaked havoc, choking cattle and pasture lands and driving 60 percent of the population from the region

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Dust Bowl

Question 4

The group of nations led by Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire that opposed the Allies in World War I

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Central Powers

Question 5

The deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world

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Great Depression

Question 6

New laws & agencies to regulate banking & stock market in an effort to stop bank failures & future stock market crashes

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Reform

Question 7

He was the great “trust buster” because he broke up industrial combinations under the Sherman Antitrust Act.

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Theodore Roosevelt

Question 8

America’s 31st president, took office in 1929, the year the U.S. economy plummeted into the Great Depression

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Herbert Hoover

Question 9

Wilson envisioned an organization that was charged with resolving conflicts before it exploded into bloodshed & warfare

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League of Nations

Question 10

Fighting in World War I from system of digging deep in ground rows on the Western Front.

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Trench Warfare

Question 11

A formal political, military or economic agreement between two or more nations.

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Alliances

Question 12

This war resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America.

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Spanish - American War

Question 13

The refusal to take part in a war between other nations is called

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neutrality

Question 14

Term most typically was used to refer to American troops deployed to Europe as part of the American Expeditionary Forces

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Doughboys

Question 15

A message sent in 1917 by the German foreign minister to the German ambassador in Mexico.

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Zimmerman Note

Question 16

Agencies like the SEC and programs like FDIC are examples of

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Reform

Question 17

Upon outbreak of the Spanish-American War in 1898, Roosevelt became Colonel of the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry called

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Rough Riders

Question 18

Law enacted in 1935 to provide aid to retirees, unemployed, people with disabilities, & families with dependent children

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Social Security Administration

Question 19

Agency responsible for providing the unemployed with jobs in construction, garment making, teaching, and the arts.

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Works Project Administration

Question 20

On May 7, 1915, less than a year after World War I (1914-18), a German U-boat torpedoed and sank this passenger liner.

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Lusitania

Question 21

Market which shares of publicly held companies are issued & traded either through exchanges or over the counter markets.

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Stock Market

Question 22

An agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time; a truce (not a treaty that ends a war)

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Armistice

Question 23

Peace proposal, based on idea of peace without victory, called for victorious Allies to set unselfish peace terms

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Fourteen Points

Question 24

The right to vote.

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Suffrage

Question 25

Agency designed to reduce unemployment & increase purchasing power through construction of highways & public buildings.

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Public Works Administration

Question 26

Stock prices began to decline in September and early October 1929, and on October 18 the fall began

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Black Tuesday

Question 27

Refers to the 1920s decade in music and fashion as it happened in Western society and Western culture.

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Roaring 20s

Question 28

Government’s spending of more money than it receives in revenue in an effort to stimulate economic growth

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Deficit Spending

Question 29

Hoover developed a voluntary program using Americans’ compassion & patriotism to support the war effort in (place)

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Homefront

Question 30

When many account holders withdraw all of their funds at the same time because they don't believe the bank is solvent

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Bank Run

Question 31

Agency created in 1933 to insure individuals’ bank accounts, protecting people against losses due to bank failures.

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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Question 32

The use of direct payments like Social Security to bring immediate financial assistance to the suffering

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Relief

Question 33

On April 2, 1917, he asked Congress to declare war on Germany, stating, “The world must be made safe for democracy.”

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Woodrow Wilson

Question 34

A law enacted in 1933 to raise crop prices by paying farmers to leave a certain amount of their land unplanted

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Agricultural Adjustment Act

Question 35

Policy of favoring the interests of native-born people over foreign-born people.

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Nativism

Question 36

Economic doctrine opposing government regulation/interference in commerce beyond the minimum for free-enterprise system

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Laissez-Faire Economics

Question 37

The only American president in history to be elected four times, he died in office in April 1945

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Franklin Roosevelt

Question 38

President Franklin Roosevelt’s program to alleviate the problems of the Great Depression - 3 R's

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The New Deal

Question 39

Agency created under the New Deal, employing men to build roads, parks, planting trees, erosion & flood control projects

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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Question 40

In WWI, this group of nations consisting of Great Britain, France, Russia and later joined by United States, and Italy.

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Allies

Question 41

Lasting roughly from the 1910s through the mid-1930s, the period is considered a golden age in African American culture

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Harlem Renaissance

Question 42

An illicit liquor store or night club during Prohibition

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Speakeasies

Question 43

A form of a religion that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture.

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Fundamentialism

Question 44

This archduke is shot to death along with his wife by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia sparking WWI.

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Franz Ferdinand

Question 45

An agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time; a truce (not a treaty that ends a war)

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Armistice

Question 46

The first significant law restricting immigration into the United States.

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Chinese - Exclusion Act

Unit 7 The World Stage: WWI, Roaring 20s, & Great Depression

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Unit 7 The World Stage: WWI, Roaring 20s, & Great Depression

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