US History II Midterm

Economic

Money

Political

Government

Social

Culture

Zimmermann Note

Message from Germany to Mexico asking them if they want to join World War II

Propaganda

Information used to influence from the government

Trench Warfare

Fighting that took place in muddy holes

When and why did the Lusitania sink?

On May 7th it was sunk by a German U-Boat

Great Migration

African-Americans were escaping the south and moving up to northern cities due to the new oppurtunities

League of Nations

Woodrow Wilson created a group of all the countries to have world peace

The roaring 20s

The 1920s

18th Amendment

Prohibition

Where did people drink during prohibition?

speak easies

19th amendment

Women’s Suffrage

Harlem Renaissance

African-Americans embracing art while living in Harlem

When did the stock market crash?

Black Tuesday, October 29th 1929

Bank Run

People running to the bank to take their money out of stocks

Dust Bowl Location

Great Plains

What happened in the Dust Bowl

Dust and Sand tornadoes

Hooverville

Homeless town

New Deal

Programs that FDR made

FDR

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Who was social security for

Retired people, family of dead people, and dependents

Bonus Army

WWI veterans who marched on the capital

Where did the “Okies” go?

California

FDIC

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

SEC

Securities and Exchange Commission

FSA

Farm Security Administration

SSA

Social Security Administration

US Neutrality

The US did not want to join WWII

St. Louis ship

Jewish immigrants denied entry to Cuba and sent back to Germany

Pearl Harbor

Japanese bombed a US military site

“Day that will go down in infamy”

December 7th, 1941

WWII homefront for women

They began to work

Double “V” campaign

Got African-Americans involved in the war

Japanese Internment Camps

Camps where Japanese-Americans were being held during WWII

Where was the first atomic bomb dropped

Hiroshima

Where was the second atomic bomb dropped

Nagasaki

Date of Hiroshima

August 6th 1945

Date of Nagasaki

August 9th 1945

GI Bill

Gave veterans benefits

Suburbanization

Rural areas being turned into towns

Levittown

Town of many different houses made by the Levitt company

Mass Consumption

People buying everything that others around them had

Redlining

People from primarily non-white neighborhoods not being able to buy a house in a suburb

Women after the war

Forced to back to being housewives and getting their jobs taken away