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Legacy of World War I (2023)

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  • Q1
    Harlem Renaissance
    A period in the 1920's when African-American achievements in art, music and literature flourished
    30s
  • Q2
    jazz
    A style of dance music popular in the 1920's.
    30s
  • Q3
    speculation
    An involvement in risky business transactions in an effort to make a quick or large profit.
    30s
  • Q4
    popular culture
    Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.
    30s
  • Q5
    Great Depression
    Economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s.
    30s
  • Q6
    mass media
    Forms of communication, such as newspapers and radio, that reach millions of people.
    30s
  • Q7
    public works projects
    Government-funded project to build public resources such as roads and dams.
    30s
  • Q8
    Lost Generation
    Group of writers in 1920's who shared the belief that they were lost in a greedy, materialistic world that lacked moral values and often choose to flee to Europe.
    30s
  • Q9
    laissez faire
    Idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs.
    30s
  • Q10
    Black Tuesday
    October 29, 1929; date of the worst stock-market crash in American history and beginning of the Great Depression.
    30s
  • Q11
    buying on margin
    Paying a small percentage of a stock's price as a down payment and borrowing the rest.
    30s
  • Q12
    Herbert Hoover
    Republican candidate who assumed the presidency in March 1929 promising the American people prosperity and attempted to first deal with the Depression by trying to restore public faith in the community.
    30s
  • Q13
    expatriate
    Someone who chooses to live outside of his or her native country.
    30s
  • Q14
    Crash of 1929
    Terrible plunge in stock market prices that started the Great Depression.
    30s
  • Q15
    Bonus Army
    World War I veterans who marched on Washington demanding their $1,000 bonus pay before the 1945 due date.
    30s

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