1920s 1930s 1940s

Quota System

Limit on US immigration

Teapot Dome Scandal

Bribery scandal involving Harding's cabinet and oil companies

Silent Cal

Nickname for Calvin Coolidge, seen as silent and averted depression

Fundamentalism

Strict belief in literal interpretation of religious scripture

Second Wave of the KKK

Anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic movement

Speakeasies

Illegal hidden bars during Prohibition

Sacco and Vanzetti

Anarchists executed for murder charges

Great Depression

Stock market crash affecting millions in the 1930s

Bonus Army March

WWI veterans protesting for promised money

FDR

President during the Great Depression, introduced New Deal

Fireside Chats

FDR's radio broadcasts to the nation

Works Progress Administration

New Deal agency employing millions for public projects

Adolf Hitler

Dictator of Nazi Germany during WWII

Blitzkrieg

Lightning war strategy used by Germany in WWII

Invasion of Poland

Joint attack by Germany and the Soviet Union, start of WWII

Battle of Midway

Major naval battle in the Pacific during WWII

Dwight D

Supreme Commander of Allied forces in Europe during WWII

Omaha Beach

Normandy landing site with high casualties during WWII

Battle of Berlin

Final battle leading to the fall of Berlin in WWII