AC US History Semester One Exam Review

Leader of the AEF in WWI

This was built in 1914 by America so our navy could be on both coasts and international trade

This is the decision to kill all remaining Jews in the Greater German Empire (Europe) in WWII

Work program for millions young men; did environmental projects (planting trees, trails, parks)

This plan called for an invasion of France through Belgium by Germany during WWI

This ship sinks and kills 1,100 people & 128 Americans and challenged our neutrality in WWI

Hoover believed "Just work hard and don't complain and things will be okay" stay strong

German U-boats

This officially ends WWI; punishes Germany severely and eventually is a cause of WWII

President during the Spanish-American War; high tariffs; assassinated at the Pan American Expo

Cultivation of waste land or land formerly under water for woodlands/agricultural production

This allowed for your income to be taxed by the government

Only program set up to help during Great Depression by Herbert Hoover

This ship was sunk by the Japanese and 1,200 men died on that boat at Pearl Harbor

This ship blows up in Havana Harbor and leads to the Yellow Journalism and Spanish-American War

this prohibited the sale, manufacture, or consumption of alcohol

She led women to get the right to vote; protested; arrested; force fed; Iron Jawed Angels

She became the symbol that women could join the war effort by working in WWII

The systematic killing of 12,000,000 people during WWII by Nazi Germany and her collaborators

Set of programs designed to get America out of the Great Depression as promised by FDR

Sacco & Vanzetti

This is what people nicknamed their shacks they lived in during the GD

This is the party in Germany led by Adolf Hitler

This man was president during the Great Depression; had polio; elected 4 times; leader in WWII

Thousands of veterans who went to Wash DC to get money, told no, and were attacked by the Army

The fear of immigrants and the spread of communism in America in the 1920's was called

Greatest amphibious invasion in the history of the world on the beaches of Normandy in WWII

Weekly radio broadcast by FDR to let Americans know what was being done to help them during GD

This was sent from Germany to Mexico trying to get Mexico to attack America during WWI

The arrest and imprisonment of 110,000 Japanese Americans during WWII in America

This gave women the right to vote

While there was gas; tanks; planes; and flame throwers, the main type of warfare in WWI was

To remove an elected official from office is called

Trying to acquire territories as your own for raw materials, trade, economic and political gain

This allowed for the direct election of Senators to office (before picked by state legislators)

We used marines to lock Queen Liliuokalani in her palace and claim the islands as ours

This was a movement in the early 1900's to clean up cities, government, and make life better

selective training and service act

This is the leader of the Soviet Union in WWII

At the height of the Great Depression the number of unemployed workers reached about

American President who promised the "Square Deal" , was a trust buster, cleaned up meat packing

When WWI started, the US was officially ______, and even before we joined the war we _________.

Huge movement of people from the South to the North and West during The Great War

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were what in WWII?

The religious belief that the bible must be strictly followed and taken literally all the time

This was created during the GD to give money to retired persons and disabled persons

These acts limited the number of people who could come into America

This is what people waited in to get food during the Great Depression

This war was fought between 1914-1919

Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Emperor Hirohito were all leaders of the

Albert Fall; Illegal contracts/kickbacks; oil drilling in Wyoming during Harding administration

Leader of the African American community; first PhD from Harvard; NAACP; and edited The Crisis

This is the American General in charge of the D-Day invasion and all European operations

Franklin D Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin were all leaders of the

This is the day (October 29, 1929) the stock market crashed and the Great Depression started

America was attacked here on December 7, 1941 by Japan which will enter us into WWII

Once people could afford cars this became popular in America

Name the Central Powers from WWI

This organization was set up to stop lynchings in America

These are suicide Japanese pilots who flew their planes into US ships

Independent third party who settles a dispute between two others and their decision is final

This got rid of prohibition and allowed alcohol in America again

This was a time of great unemployment and despair in America during the 1930s

This happened in NYC and many women died as door were locked and escapes collapsed

A hate group that resurfaced and gained strength in the 1920's and targeted many more groups

When did the USA enter WWI?

William Randolph Hearst

These were the Allied Powers in WWI

New Deal program to bring dams, electricity, schools, and progress to 7 states during the GD

employing 8.5 million to do public works projects; the construction of public buildings; roads

The Manhattan Project is

Perfected the assembly line for automobiles and made cars affordable for everyone

Leader of Great Britain in WWII; V for victory sign

This allowed the government to enforce prohibition

The awakening of African American culture in the 1920's is called

This protected your money in a bank and gave people the confidence to deposit money again

Famous gangster in Chicago during Prohibition who was finally arrested for income tax evasion

Biology teacher put on trial for teaching theory of evolution

Many economists said the Great Depression was

The 14 Points and the League of Nations was the dream of this US President

War fought in Cuba & the Philippines & won by the United States it greatly increased our power

Theodore Roosevelt used this to show American Naval might to China and Japan

This person flew solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927 from New York to Paris

Middle America that was left without water for two years, dried up, no farming, people left

President who was blamed for Great Depression; attacked the Bonus Army; Rugged Individualism

A film we watched about an American unit trapped in the Argonne Forest during WWI was called

soldiers in Spanish-American war made up of cowboys, Indians, outlaws, and rich guys led by TR

The assassination of this man and his wife by Gavrilo Princep led to the start of WWI

This was the American President in WWI and designer of The 14 Points and League of Nations

A film about boxer James J Braddock during the GD; rich; then poor; fought his way back to top

This is the biggest concentration camp, death camp, and labor camp in WWII