Webquest

Unit 4 Webquest Words


1. Henry Ford- American automobile manufacturer who developed a gasoline-powered automobile.
2. Assembly Line- An arrangement of workers, machines, and equipment in which the product is being assembled passes consecutively from operation to operation until completed.
3.Installment buying- a system for paying for goods.
4. Teapot Dome Scandal- a government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming.
5. Calvin Coolidge-
6. Kellog-Briand Pact- renouncing war as an instrument of national policy and urging peaceful.
7. Dawes Plan- a plan to ensure payments of reparations by Germany after World War I.
8. Scopes Trial-
9. Prohibition- when the Eighteenth Amendment was in force and alcoholic beverages could not legally be manufactured, transported, or sold in the U.S.
10. Charlie Chaplin-
11. Charles Lindberg-
12. Marcus Garvey-
13. Harlem Renaissance- An African-American cultural movement of the 1920s and 1930s, centered in Harlem.
14. Black Tuesday- October 29th, 1929 when the DJIA fell 12%.
15. Hawley-Smoot Tariff-
16. Hooverville- a collection of huts and shacks.
17. Dust Bowl- the region in the S central U.S. that suffered from dust storms in the 1930s.
18. Repatriation- to send back to one's own country.
19. FDIC-
20. TVA- tax on value added: a sales tax imposed by member nations of the Common Market on imports from the U.S. and other countries.
21. Huey Long-
22. Social Security Act- a law passed in 1935 providing old-age retirement insurance, a federal-state program of unemployment compensation.
23. Joseph Stalin- 1879-1953 Soviet political leader.
24. Benito Mussolini- An Italian dictator of the twentieth century.
25. Adolph Hitler- A German political leaderof the twentieth century, born in Australia.
26. Appeasement-
27. Munich Pact-
28. Blitzkrieg-
29. Winston Churchill-
30. Lend-Lease Act-
31. Douglas McArthur-
32. Dwight Eisenhower-
33. George S Patton -
34. Battle of Midway-
35. Internment-
36. Battle of the Bulge-
37. Harry Truman-
38. Manhattan Project-
39. Nuremburg Laws-
40. Kristallnacht-