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| 7478381546 | Warren Harding | President of the United States from 1921 to 1923. This Republican man, though good-natured himself, surrounded himself with a few shady characters who tainted his presidency. Believed in a quasi-laissez-faire economic policy. Died of illness in 1923. | 0 | |
| 7478381547 | Calvin Coolidge | President of the United States from 1923 to 1929. Became president when Harding died of pneumonia. This man was known for practicing a rigid economy in money and words, and acquired the name "Silent Cal" for being so soft-spoken. He was a true republican and industrialist. Believed in the government supporting big business. | 1 | |
| 7478381548 | Herbert Hoover | President of the United States from 1929 to 1933. 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. | 2 | |
| 7478381549 | Andrew Mellon | Secretary of the Treasury under Harding | 3 | |
| 7478381550 | TeaPot Dome Scandal | A horrible political scandal involving the private bribery of Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall in exchange for government oileries. Up to that point, it was considered the worst political scandal in American History. | 4 | |
| 7478381551 | Washington Conference | 1921 - president harding invited delegates from europe and japan, and they agreed to limit production of war ships, to not attack each other's possessions, and to respect china's independence | 5 | |
| 7478381552 | Kellogg-Briand Pact | A rather idealistic agreement between the great world powers to never engage in war except for defensive purposes. | 6 | |
| 7478381553 | Dawes Plan | A plan to revive the German economy, the United States loans Germany money which then can pay reparations to England and France, who can then pay back their loans from the U.S | 7 | |
| 7478381554 | Black Tuesday | Name given to the fatal crash of 1929.f | 8 | |
| 7478381555 | Hawley-Smoot Tariff | Raised tariffs to an unprecedented level and worsened the depression by raising prices and discouraging foreign trade. | 9 | |
| 7478381556 | Hoovervilles | Sneering name given to the shantytowns that sprang up during the depression. | 10 | |
| 7478381557 | Bonus Army | Name given to the mass of struggling WWI vets who, in the face of hard economic times, wanted to collect their pay checks early. | 11 | |
| 7478381558 | Reconstruction Financial Corporation (RFC) | designed to make loans to banks, insurance companies and railroads; lent lots of money to people at the top of the system (trickle down) | 12 | |
| 7478381559 | Manchurian Invasion | In 1931 the Japanese stage-managed an attack on the Japanese owned Manchurian railway by "Chinese bandits." To protect their interests the Japanese army took control of the whole region. Both China and Japan appealed to the League of Nations to arbitrate. | 13 |
