us history chap 17 and 18

Who were the Allies in WW1?

US, Russia, France, Britain

incident in which the FBI organized anti-Communist raids in the winter of 1919-1920

The Red Scare

Leader Russia's Bolshevik movement

Vladimir Lenin

legislation that required all men from 21 to 30 to register with local draft boards

Selective Service Act

intercepted German message promising Mexico land from the states of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona in return for helping the Germans in World War I

Zimmerman note

heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary who was shot and killed by a young Serbian terrorist in 1914, beginning World War I

Franz Ferdinand

constitutional amendment that prohibited the sale and distribution of alcohol

18th Amendment

baseball player who became the best-known evangelist from 1900-1935

Billy Sunday

international body called for in the last of Wilson's Fourteen Points

League of Nations

person who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Gavrilo Princip

Federal Bureau of Investigation; took charge of the investigations into Communist activities

FBI

leader of the FBI's investigations into Communist activities during the Red Scare

J. Edgar Hoover

first native southerner elected to the presidency after the Civil War; 28th president of the United States

Woodrow Wilson

President Wilson's list of war aims for world peace following World War I

Fourteen Points

American general sent to capture Pancho Villa in Mexico and would later become the commander of the American Expeditionary Force during World War I

John J. Pershing

day when the armistice was signed to end World War I; also known as Armistice Day and celebrated on November 11

Veterans Day

United States gangster who terrorized Chicago during Prohibition until arrested for tax evasion

Al Capone

warfront that stretched for 600 miles from the English Channel to the Swiss border in World War

Western Front

Who intercepted the Zimmerman note?

British

complete collapse of the New York Stock Exchange/ October 29, 1929

Black Tuesday

thirty-second president of the United States who pledged "a new deal for the American people"; first president to make extensive use of modern means of communication with the American people; president during World War II

Franklin D. Roosevelt

government spending and jobs program began by FDR

New Deal

legislation that established a government fund for unemployment and old-age insurance

social security act

organization that insured all member bank accounts for up to $5,000 per account

FDIC

times when people would lose confidence in a bank and rush to withdraw their money

bank runs

aviator who made the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean and whose son was kidnapped and murdered in 1932

Charles Lindbergh

first woman to pilot an airplane solo across the Atlantic

Amelia Earhart

thirty-first president of the United States whose nickname was the Great Humanitarian; president during the Great Depression

Herbert Hoover

constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote

Nineteenth Amendment

the idea of adding justices to the Supreme Court

court packing