Unit 5 Intro

World War I broke out in Europe in 1914; before it ended in _______, it involved 32 nations, including the US, and took the lives of over 20 million people.

• 1918

• 1929

• 1917

• 1919

World War I was also known as what?

• The Great War

• The Big War

• The Great Depression

• The Great Migration

Some of the technological advances of the war included ________ and____________.

• submarines

• tanks

• machine guns

• mustard gas

The 1920s with its booming economy, became known as the ____________.

• Great Depression

• Roaring Twenties

• Great Migration

• Prohibition

In 1920, the passage of the __________ finally gave women the right to vote.

• 19th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

• 20th Amendment

The 1920s saw the emergence of the __________, an emancipated young woman who embrace new fashions and urban attitudes of the day.

• flapper

• magazines

• "New Negro"

• Mass media

This period also saw the passage of __________, in which alcohol was made illegal.

• Jazz Age

• Prohibition

• Great Depression

• Objectivism

At the fancy Cotton Club in Harlem, guests rubbed shoulders with celebrities and gangsters as they listened to the great jazz performers who helped give the era its name the ___________.

• Jazz Age

• Great Migration

• Great Depression

• Dust Bowl

During the ___________, so called for its length and severity, many banks failed, businesses floundered, and workers lost their jobs.

• The Wasteland

• Great Depression

• Great Migration

• Dust Bowl

By 1933, the unemployment rate had grown to _____ percent.

• 19

• 25

• 30

• 23