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Trench warfare
Opposing trrops fighting in trenches -
MAINE
M: Military
A: Allies
I: Industrialization
N: Nationalism
E: Extreme Leader -
The Assassination Of Franz Ferdinand
Archduke of Austria. Assassinated which sparked the war. -
Eastern Front
Was a theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland -
Western Front
The main theatre of war during the First World War. -
U-boat
A German submarine used in WW1. -
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Submarines sink Vessels without warning. -
Sussex Pledge
No attacking ships without warning. -
Zimmerman Note
Secret note to Mexico that purposed an alliance between Germany & Mexico. -
Bolsheviks
A faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903. -
The Treaty Of Versailles
Germany and the Allies signed a peace treaty at the end of World War I. -
Buying On Margin
Borrowing money from a broker to purchase stock. -
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). -
Stock
Shares (ownership) in a larger company, Hopes to "share" in company profits. -
Installment Buying
Buying on credit and paying it back over time with interest -
18th Amendment
banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol -
Prohibition
Time period where America was "dry" of alcohol due to the 18th Amendment -
Bootlegger
a person who made and smuggled alcohol in the 1920s -
Speakeasy
illegal bar that served liquor during Prohibition -
Flapper
Women who cut their hair and wore makeup to rebel -
Great Migration
Large numbers of African Americans leaving the South for the hopes/dreams/jobs of the North -
19th Amendment
Women earned the right to vote after suffrage leaders held conventions, parades, silent protest, and/or hunger strikes -
Harlem Resistance
African American culture showcased through literature, poetry, art and music -
Red Scare
Deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government in 1919 and 1920 -
League Of Nations
The League of Nations was an international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes. -
Scopes Trail
Known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, -
Joseph Stalin
Led the Soviet Union from the mid–1920s until 1953 as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Premier. -
Soviet Union
Existed from 1922 to 1991. Its government and economy were highly centralized. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Harding accepted his friends into the government and one of them accepted a bribe and got caught. -
Huey Long
Nicknamed "The Kingfish", was an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932. Assassinated. -
Herbert Hoover
was an American engineer, businessman, and politician who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 -
Stock Market Crash
Faced with financial ruin, some investors actually committed suicide, believing that they would never be able to escape from their debts. This quick decline in stocks' value in October 1929 became known as the Stock Market Crash of 1929. This event signaled the beginning of the Great Depression. -
Black Tuesday
Black Tuesday refers to October 29, 1929, when panicked sellers traded nearly 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell -12%. Black Tuesday is often cited as the beginning of the Great Depression. -
Bank Holiday
a day on which banks are officially closed, observed as a public holiday. -
Hoover Blanket
Old newspapers used as blankets/ -
Hoovervilles
a shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s. -
Charles Coughlin
A critic of FDR -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd president of the United States. -
General McAuliffe
General Anthony Clement "Nuts" McAuliffe was a senior United States Army officer who earned fame as the acting commander of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division troops defending Bastogne, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. -
D-Day
the day (June 6, 1944) in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. -
Attack At Pearl Harbor
The Attacks on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' formal entry into World War II the next day. -
Doolittle Raid
The Doolittle Raid, also known as the Tokyo Raid, on Saturday, April 18, 1942, was an air raid by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on the island of Honshu during World War II, the first air operation to strike the Japanese Home Islands. -
George S. Patten
George Smith Patton Jr. was a General of the United States Army who commanded the U.S. Seventh Army in the Mediterranean theater of World War II, and the U.S. Third Army in France and Germany following the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. -
Joachim Peiper
A full colonel in the SS Panzer group -
The Battle Of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Counteroffensive, took place from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945, and was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. -
Island Hopping
Leapfrogging, also known as island hopping, was a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers during World War II. -
Pacific Theatre
The Pacific Ocean theater, during World War II, was a major theater of the war between the Allies and the Empire of Japan. -
WW2
September 1, 1939, to September 2, 1945.
Allies-Great Britain, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, the Soviet Union, and France.
Axis- Germany, Italy, and Japan. -
Truman Doctrine
was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Ike" 36th president. -
cold war
a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare. -
Imperialism
a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. -
Cold war #2
Between U.S. & Soviet Union -
Capitalism
An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. -
Communists
a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. -
Containment
To keep the communism from spreading. -
Benito Mussolini
Founded Italy's Fascist party -
Appeasement
an international context is a diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an aggressive power in order to avoid conflict.
