Transcript Jeopardy - Homestead

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WWII
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The waste, corruption, and
selfishness of this era caused
Mark Twain to name it this
Gilded Age
The movement of large
numbers of blacks to Northern
cities from the South due to
economic opportunities
caused by WWI
Great Migration
WWII began with the invasion
of Poland in 1939 by this
nation
Germany
The program that made money
available to US servicemen for
schooling, home loans,
business and farm loans after
WWII was called this
GI Bill
President Lyndon Johnson’s
agenda of programs to wage
“War on Poverty” was called
this
Great Society
He dominated the steel
industry
Carnegie
The Pendleton Act was
passed to reform this
Civil Service
The major issue of the
Spanish-American War was
the independence of this
Cuba
To get the Isthmus to
construct the Panama Canal,
Theodore Roosevelt
supported the rebellion of
Panama against them
Colombia
The New Deal program that
hired young men to work in
National Parks or nature
preserves
CCC
Civilian Conservation Corps
The doctrine of “Separate but
Equal” was put in place by
this court case
Plessy v. Ferguson
The teaching of evolution in
public schools was deemed
illegal in Tennessee in this court
case
The Scopes “Monkey” Trial
American prejudice against
immigrants and radicals was
visible in this 1920s trial
Sacco & Vanzetti
Racial integration in public
schools was mandated by
this court case
Brown v. Board of Education
During the 1950s, they were
found guilty of treason by
passing nuclear secrets to
the Soviet Union and
executed
The Rosenbergs
The assumption that the
Communist Soviet Union
would continually seek to
expand caused the US to
employ this policy
Containment
The Truman Doctrine was first
used to support these states
Greece and Turkey
To help rebuild Europe after
WWII and keep it
democratic, the US
undertook this program
The Marshall Plan
A mutual defense pact
between the US and other
Western European
democracies to counter Soviet
aggression
NATO
Technically, the Korean War was a
struggle between North Korea
and them
The United Nations (UN)
The first place the US struck
at the Germans in WWII was
here
North Africa
The US was able to supply
Great Britain and, later,
Russia, with war materiel
due to this 1941 law passed
by Congress
Lend-Lease Act
The strategy used by the US
against the Japanese in the
Pacific
Island-Hopping
This battle is considered
the turning point for the US
and its Allies in Europe
D-Day
The invasion of Normandy,
France
June 6, 1944
The victory attained by
the US here is
considered the turning
point in the war in the
Pacific
Battle of Midway
1950s &
1960s
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WWI
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The Cuban Revolution of 1959
was led and won by him
Fidel Castro
Bus boycotts, sit-ins, and
freedom rides were all tactics
used to achieve this end
Desegregation
Passed by Congress in 1964,
this allowed President
Johnson to greatly expand
the US presence in Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The first of the destructive
race riots of the 1960s
happened here
Watts
This event caused the US to
doubt its superiority and
begin the space race
The launch of Sputnik
1957
They gained most of
the wealth in gold &
silver mining
Corporations
This allowed the cheap and
efficient mass production of
steel
Bessemer Process
Before 1882, they were
restricted from immigrating
into the US
No one
Beginning in the 1880s,
immigration was mostly from
these two world regions
Southern and Eastern
Europe
These were community
centers established by
idealistic middle-class
women for the purpose of
helping the poor
Settlement Houses
This was the federal
regulatory board established
to regulate railroads at first
Interstate Commerce
Commission (ICC)
He was the most notorious of
the city bosses
Boss Tweed
This established the direct
election of senators
17th Amendment
He was the candidate of the
progressive third party in the
Election of 1912
Theodore Roosevelt
President Harding’s Secretary
of the Interior, Albert Fall, was
implicated in this great
scandal
Teapot Dome
This was the spark that caused
WWI
Assassination of the Archduke
Ferdinand
At the beginning of WWI,
the Allies consisted of
these three states
Britain, France, and Russia
President Wilson wanted to
negotiate the end of WWI
based on his peace plan
known as this
The Fourteen Points
Besides unrestricted
submarine warfare, these
were two other reasons the
US entered the war
Monetary and materiel
support for the Allies
Zimmerman Telegram
He was commander of the
American Expeditionary
Force (AEF) in France during
WWI
General Pershing
His book, The Jungle, exposed
the meat-packing industry
Upton Sinclair
He was the most prominent
black militant during the
Progressive Era
W. E. B. DuBois
Her “Hawaii for the Hawaiians”
movement caused Americans
to overthrow her
Queen Liliuokalani
He commanded the US naval
squadron that defeated the
Spanish at Manila in 1898
Commodore Dewey
She was a leader in the
American birth-control
movement
Margaret Sanger
WWI
People
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The US public was horrified by
the sinking of this passenger liner
by Germany in 1915
The Lusitania
The Great War was financed
in part through the public’s
purchase of these
Liberty & War
bonds
He headed the US
propaganda effort in the
Committee on Public
Information (CPI)
George Creel
He was America’s great hero
in WWI
Alvin York
This was the treaty that
ended WWI
The Treaty of Versailles
These Progressive-Era
journalists exposed
political and social
problems
Muckrakers
He believed that trusts
should be regulated more
than busted up
Theodore Roosevelt
He was the greatest comedian
silent film star
Charlie Chaplin
He led the Universal Negro
Improvement Association and
eventually backed a back-toAfrica movement
Marcus Garvey
He realized that mass
production of automobiles
would make them cheap
enough for the average
consumer
Henry Ford
The influence of the
Knights of Labor dropped
after this event
The Haymarket Riot
The agricultural depression of
the late 1800s caused the
establishment of this
movement
Alliance Movement
New safety laws were
enacted after this workplace
tragedy
Triangle Shirt-Waist
Fire
The Open Door Policy
was established to
protect trade here
China
Warren G. Harding ran on
this idea
Normalcy
He was president when the stock
market collapsed in 1929
Hoover
FDR wanted to protect New
Deal legislation from the
Supreme Court by doing this
Add more justices
His independent candidacy in
the 1992 election caused
disruption and split votes
Ross Perot
President Carter negotiated
peace between Egypt and
Israel in the treaty
Camp David Accords
This was President
Carter’s biggest
economic problem
Stagflation
He organized migrant
workers to get better pay
and working conditions
Cesar Chavez
This was Nixon’s policy
of relaxing tensions with
the Communists
Detente
The Manhattan Project was
established to develop this
The atomic bomb
During WWII, they were interned
in relocation camps
Japanese-Americans
During WWII, young Latino
men and US service men
rioted in Los Angeles
Zoot Suit Riot