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U.S. History WWI, Roaring 20s, and Great Depress ...

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  • Why was the United States afraid of the spread of communism after World War I?
    Russian Revolution and the spread of communism in Russia
  • What was the name of the international representative body created after World War I?
    League of Nations
  • What were Hoovervilles?
    communities of unemployed and homeless people living in shacks
  • Why did the Hawley-Smoot Tariff fail?
    stopped international trade and led to the rise in nationalism
  • Name three New Deal programs.
    Farm Bill, NRA, TVA, PWA, Emergency Banking Relief Act
  • What was the name of the artistic movement that celebrated African American culture and art that began in the 1920s?
    Harlem Renaissance
  • What was the League of Nations supposed to do?
    solve international problems with diplomatic negotiations as opposed to war
  • This amendment abolishes slavery
    13th Amendment
  • What happened with the Bonus Army?
    Unemployed WWI veterans wanted their bonuses and marched on Washington to demand them
  • What does the FDIC do?
    Federal insurance on bank deposits
  • Why was Black Tuesday important?
    Stock Market crash and the signaled beginning of the Great Depression
  • What was the name of the program intended to help solve the crisis of bank closures?
    Reconstruction Finance Corporation
  • What event led to the United States entering World War I?
    Zimmerman Telegram
  • Name two men who supported extremist ideas during the Great Depression.
    Francis Townsend, Charles Coughlin, and Huey Long
  • This amendment results in the direct election of senators
    16th Amendment
  • What were the M.A.I.N. causes of World War I?
    militarism, alliance system, imperialism, and nationalism
  • This amendment gives women the right to vote
    19th Amendment
  • Changes inauguration day to January 20th
    20th Amendment
  • Why did nativism rise in the 1920s?
    Increased immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe ("new immigrants" who were seen as unassimilable)
  • Why was the Reconstruction Finance Corporation unsuccessful?
    No regulation on banks and what they had to do with the money they were given
  • Name three underlying causes of the Great Depression
    Overbuying on credit, bank failures, stagnant wages, no small business growth, over production of goods
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