Unit 8 : Turbulent Decades Vocabulary

A period of low economic activity and widespread unemployment.

• Speakeasy

• Stock Exchange

• Buying on Margin

• Depression

A young women of the 1920s who defied conventions in her behavior and dress.

• Flapper

• Nisei

• Bootlegging

• Speakeasy

Making, selling, and transportation of illegal alcohol.

• Speakeasy

• Appeasement

• Prohibition

• Bootlegging

An illegal bar selling alcohol during the Prohibition period.

• Stock Exchange

• Speakeasy

• Bootlegging

• Prohibition

US World War II strategy that called for attacking and capturing certain key islands and using these islands and key bases to leapfrog to others.

• Appeasement

• Buying on Margin

• Island Hopping

• Depression

A person born in the United States whose parents were immigrants from Japan.

• Nisei

• Flapper

• Speakeasy

• Bootlegging

A total ban on the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor throughout the United States.

• Depression

• Appeasement

• Prohibition

• Stock Exchange

Investors paid only a fraction of the stock price and borrowed the rest on credit.

• Depression

• Buying On Margin

• Stock Exchange

• Flapper

An organized system for buying and selling shares or blocks of investments in corporations.

• Nisei

• Depression

• Stock Exchange

• Speakeasy

Accepting demands in order to avoid conflict

• Buying on Margin

• Appeasement

• Depression

• Prohibition