Roring 20's

Question 1

Flapper

Answer 1

(in the 1920s) a fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior.

Question 2

Prohibition

Answer 2

the action of forbidding something, especially by law.

Question 3

Speakeasies

Answer 3

(during Prohibition) an illicit liquor store or nightclub.

Question 4

Maginot Line

Answer 4

a line of defensive fortifications built before World War II to protect the eastern border of France but easily outflanked by German invaders.

Question 5

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Answer 5

A 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve “disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them.”

Question 6

Disarmament

Answer 6

the reduction or withdrawal of military forces and weapons.

Question 7

General strike

Answer 7

A strike of workers in all or most industries.

Question 8

Overproduction

Answer 8

production of more of a product, commodity, or substance than is wanted or needed.

Question 9

Finance

Answer 9

the management of large amounts of money, especially by governments or large companies.

Question 10

Federal Reserve

Answer 10

Created in 1913 to provide the nation with a safe, flexible and stable monetary and financial system.

Question 11

Great Depression

Answer 11

the financial and industrial slump of 1929 and subsequent years.

Question 12

New deal

Answer 12

A group of government programs and policies established under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s; the New Deal was designed to improve conditions for persons suffering in the Great Depression.

Question 13

FDR

Answer 13

32nd President of the United States; elected four times; instituted New Deal to counter the Great Depression and led country during World War II (1882-1945)