Question

Identify the following items by matching them with their descriptions.

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answers are:

1 - Eighteenth Amendment

2 - Ku Klux Klan

3 - Kellogg-Briand Pact

4 - Washington Disarmament Conference

5 - Teapot Dome Scandal

6 - Treaty of Versailles

7 - Peace of vengeance

8 - Lusitania

9 - National Urban League

10 - Progressivism

Explanation:

1)_ The Eighteenth Amendment established the prohibition of intoxicating liquors in the United States, proposed by the Congress in 1917 and later repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment on 1933.

2)_ The Ku Klux Klan were a variety of different organizations led by far-rights politics that promoted the white supremacy, therefore also racism, xenophobia and antisemitism.

3)_ The Kellogg-Briand Pact is an international agreement signed by fifteen nations in Paris in the year of 1928 in which they promised no to use war to resolve conflicts.  

4)_ The Washington Naval Conference was a disarmament conference that took place in Washington during the period since 1921 to 1922.

5)_ The Teapot Dome Scandal was a scandal that involve the administration of the United States' President Warren Harding that took place from 1921 to 1923 and was about the oil reserves at Teapot Dome.

6)_ The Treaty of Versailles was the treaty that ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers so that the World War I could get to an end.

7)_ Peace of vengeance was the european idea that German should pay for starting the war to the countries that won.

8)_ RMS Lusitania was the name of a luxury british boat of passangers that was sunk by a German U-Boat during the World War I and was the detonation to the entrance of the United States in the war.

9)_ The National Urban League is a nonpartisan civil rights organization that advocates on behalf of African Americans rights and against racial discrimination.

10)_ Progressivism is the idelogical term that support the social reform that promote the idea of progress by achieving advancements in science, technologhy and more.