US Hist

Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim across the ________________ in 1926, at the age of 19.

The first movies with sound were released in _______________.

George Gershwin was a musical composer.

After World War I Germany was in chaos, its new government the _________________, signed the Treaty of Versailles.

The Harlem Renaissance started in __________________________'s Harlem neighborhood.

When the US entered _________________, many men had to leave their jobs.

Women were held to a stricter set of standards for behaviors than ________, in the 1920's.

Professional ______________ became popular during the 1920's, because people could listen to games on the radio.

Stalin took over after the death of Vladimir ________________________.

The __________________ dominated baseball with greats such as Babe Ruth,, Lou Gehrig, and Joe DiMaggio.

__________________, were secret clubs that served alcohol during Prohibition.

The US entered the Great _________________ in the 1930's.

Americans were listening, watching, reading, & buying the same things, resulting in a time of ___________.

The USS ______________ suffered a bomb through its decks causing it to sink in minutes with 1300 sailors on board.

In 1919, Mussolini organized the _____________ Party in Italy.

From 1914-1926, the number of children enrolled in high school rose from 1 million to ___________________.

Jazz began in the early 1900's in ___________________________.

The movement of African Americans to the North from the South is known as the Great _________________.

The Grapes of Wrath detailed the difficult lives of Oklahomans leaving for California during the ________________.

___________________'s Nazi political party, rose to power in Germany in 1933.

On December 7, 1941 __________________ attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Baseball became America's favorite pastime in the _______________.

The crash of the Hindenburg, a Japanese airship, in New Jersey was broadcast as it occured.

___________________ women usually stayed home,while their husbands worked in a job outside the home.

Ernest Hemingway was wounded in World War 1 and he wrote novels criticized the glorification of war.

African Americans voicing pride in their heritage and embracing their culture is known as the _____________ Renaissance.

_________________ danced in jazz clubs and engaged in behaviors associated with men.

Movies, sports and radio remained popular forms of entertainment during the Civil War.

New _______________________ made household chores less time consuming.

_____________________'s, KDKA was the first commercial radio station in the US, and it went on air in 1920.

The Roaring 20's came to halt when the stock market crashed on ______________.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt held ___________________ to speak directly to the American people to keep them informed.

________________'s roles in the United States before 1920 were very traditional.

Every adult held in a ___________________ internment camp was required to answer a loyality questionnaire.

Teenagers in the 1920's had more freedom than previous generations because they were able to ___________________.

Russia was transformed into the ________________ after the revolution in 1917.

In the 1920's people went to dance marathons and danced to _____________ music for hours.

Joseph Stalin was a part of the _______________ Revolution in Russia.

_______________________ became America's favorite pastime.

_________________ were important to Americans, because they could listen to current events and news.

Women who did work outside the home often held jobs in "women's professions" such as _________________ or domestic work.

Some of the ________________ work programs supported artists and many were paid to create public murals and teach art.

Hundreds of thousands of African Americans moved from the South to the North to escape _______________ laws.

____________________ was the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean from New York to Paris in 1927.

Harlem became the world's largest black community in the 1920's.

F. Scott Fitgerald wrote ___________, which portrayed the negative side of 1920's extravagant living.

With the economic boom of the 1920's, ___________ no longer needed to have jobs.

Women began to assert their independence & called for the same freedoms as men, resulting in the "______" of the 1920's.

The ____ Amendment, ratified in 1920, gave women the right to vote.

Helen Wells dominated women's __________ by winning Wimbledon eight times.