American History Semester 2

  • Central Powers

    Central Powers

    Consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire
  • Allied Powers

    Allied Powers

    Consisted of France, Russia, and the United Kingdom. At the end of the war also consisted of Spain and U.S. They opposed the central powers
  • Eastern Front

    Eastern Front

    Where troops from Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Russia, and the Balkans fought, was larger than the Western Front. Was located in Russia.
  • Causes of WW1

    Causes of WW1

    M- Militarism
    A- Alliances
    I- Imperialism
    N- Nationalism
    E- Extreme Leaders
  • Trench Warfare

    Trench Warfare

    a type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other.
  • The Spark

    The Spark

    The assassination of Franz Ferdinand of Austria Hungary in Sarajevo
  • Western Front

    Western Front

    Stretching 440 miles from the Swiss border to the North Sea, the line of trenches, dug-outs and barbed-wire fences moved very little between 1914-1918.
  • Sinking of the Lusitania

    Sinking of the Lusitania

    The Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat
  • Sinking of the Sussex

  • Great Migration

    Great Migration

    Was the movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West
  • Russian Revolution

    Russian Revolution

    Russia surrendered to Germany and became a communist power. Made Americans more willing to join the Allied powers
  • U.S. joined the war

    Sent a small army and resources to Europe but needed to institute a draft to build a large army.
  • U.S. arriving in Europe

    Helped save Paris from German attack
  • Jazz Age

    Jazz Age

    Largely credited to African Americans employing new musical techniques along with traditional African traditions, jazz soon expanded to America's white middle class.
  • Senate and the League of Nations

    They thought would threaten American independence
  • Prohibition

    Prohibition

    Time period where America was "dry" of alcohol due to the 18th Amendment
  • Red Scare

    Red Scare

    Fears of subversion by communists in the United States after the Russian Revolution
  • Flappers

    Flappers

    A young woman, who shows bold freedom from conventions in conduct and dress
  • Speakeasy

    Speakeasy

    Illegal bar during the prohibition era
  • Return to Normalcy

    Return to Normalcy

    President Harding's slogan to Americans that America needed to return the "normal" way of life before The Great War (World War I).
  • Installment Buying

    Installment Buying

    Buying on credit and paying it back over time with interest
  • Harlem Renaissance

    Harlem Renaissance

    African American culture showcased through literature, poetry, art and music
  • Fundamentalism

    Fundamentalism

    Movement in the 20th century emphasizing the literally interpretation of the Bible as a fundamental to Christian life and teaching
  • wet

    wet

    Against prohibition
  • Dry

    Dry

    In favor of prohibition
  • consumer economy

    consumer economy

    economy driven by consumer spending as a percent of its gross domestic product
  • Teapot Dome Scandal

    Teapot Dome Scandal

    The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921 to 1923.
  • Presidency

    Presidency

    Herbert Hoover won the election of 1928
  • Federal Farm Board

    Federal Farm Board

    farm cooperatives would voluntarily coordinate crop production, and withhold crops from the market
  • Great Depression

    Great Depression

    The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors.
  • Hoovervilles

    Hoovervilles

    A shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s.
  • Business Cycle

    Business Cycle

    A cycle or series of cycles of economic expansion and contraction.
  • Hawley-Smoot tariff act

    Hawley-Smoot tariff act

    Raised protective tariffs to the highest level ever, to protect farmers and manufacturers
  • Hoover Blankets

    Hoover Blankets

    The people living in Hoovervilles used newspaper as blankets to keep them warm and called them Hoover Blankets
  • japan invades Manchuria

    japan invades Manchuria

    Chinese province with minerals
  • Bonus Army

    Bonus Army

    WW1 Veterans marched on Washington D.C. demanding their money
  • election of 1932

    election of 1932

    Hoover lost the election of 1932 in a landslide to FDR
  • Reconstruction Finance Corporation

    Reconstruction Finance Corporation

    Granted $2B in loans to save big businesses, banks, and railroads
  • Hitler annexed Austria

    Hitler annexed Austria

    and demanded the Sudetenland
  • start of WW2

    start of WW2

    the start of world war 2
  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland

    with blitzkrieg attack and starts WW2
  • German resumed Blitzkrieg attacks

    German resumed Blitzkrieg attacks

    Neutral nations fell quickly (Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, and Norway)
  • Allies

    Allies

    GB, France, Soviet Union, U.S.
  • Axis powers

    Axis powers

    Germany, Italy, Japan
  • Hitler double crossed stalin

    Hitler double crossed stalin

    invades Russia through Poland. stalin used scorched earth military tactic
  • Attack of Pearl Harbor

    Attack of Pearl Harbor

    japan bomb pearl harbor in Hawaii