WWI Biz
WWII Biz
Post WWII
Rights
Various
100
The outbreak of World War I in 1914 was triggered by this.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
100
This man succeeded President Roosevelt in the White House after his death.
Who is Harry Truman?
100
Federal employees were investigated, people were blacklisted, and homosexuals were harassed because of a scare this political ideology posed in the U.S.
What is Communism?
100

This decision overturned the Plessy vs. Ferguson's "separate but equal"

What is Brown vs. Board of Education?

100
This was the physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
What is the Iron Curtain?
200
T/F President Wilson responded to the initial outbreak of WWI with neutrality.
What is True?
200
The Allied assault against the German army on the beaches of Normandy is known as this.
What is D Day?
200
The Allies divided this country in 1946 because they could not agree on the country’s future.
What is Germany?
200

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) chose this man as it's leader.

Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?

200
This is an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology and to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
What is the Treaty for the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons?
300
This promised Mexico its lost provinces in the United States if it would declare war on its northern neighbor.
What is the Zimmerman Telegraph?
300
This technological development ultimately led Hitler to withdraw his U-boats from the North Atlantic
What is Radar Detection?
300
This was an intense rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States by 1947.
What is the Cold War?
300

This woman created the National Women's Party and pushed for women's right to vote to become a Constitutional amendment.

Who is Alice Paul?

300
This was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base stationed in Hawaii.
What is Pearl Harbor?
400
Which of Wilson’s Fourteen Points was honored in the Versailles Treaty?
What is the Fourteenth Point?
400
President Roosevelt authorized the roundup and internment of this group in 1942 because they were believed to be a potential sources of espionage and subversion.
Who are Japanese Americans?
400
There was a feeling of inferiority about U.S. scientific and technological developments with the successful launch of this.
What is Sputnik?
400

T/F The civil rights movement of the 1950s and early 1960s differed from previous efforts to end racial segregation and discrimination in the United States because it used passive resistance.

What is True?

400
The United States dropped atomic bombs on these Japanese cities in August 1945
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
500
Russia sided with this side during WWI.
Who are the allied powers?
500
Germany's invasion of this country sparked the beginning of WWII.
What is Poland?
500
This objective of this attack was to overthrow the Cuban nationalist, Fidel Castro’s, socialist government.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
500

What state court case essentially mirrored and also preceded the Supreme Court case of Brown vs. Board of Education?

What is Mendez vs. Westminster?

500
This is the name given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1971 and took decisive form when President Richard M. Nixon visited the secretary-general of the Soviet Communist party, Leonid I. Brezhnev, in Moscow, May 1972.
What is Detente?
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