World War I
Roaring 20's
Great Depression
World War II
Cold War
100
What was WWI originally known as?
The Great War
100
What music genre became widely popular in the 1920's?
Jazz
100
What was the unemployment rate in 1933?
25%
100
What day did Germany surrender at the end of World War 2?
May 7, 1945
100
What were the two "superpowers" after WWII?
The Soviet Union and United States of America
200
Who was it that assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria that sparked the beginning of WWI?
Gavrilo Princip
200
Which Amendment was ratified in 1920?
The 19th Amendment
200
On what day did the Great Depression start?
October 29, 1929
200
Who was the supreme commander of allied forces in the ETO during World War II, who later became the U.S's 34th president?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
200
Which U.S. president is considered responsible for ending the Cold War by driving the Soviet Union to collapse?
President Ronald Reagan
300
What four month battle, that occurred during WWI, was the bloodiest battle up to that point in history?
Battle of the Somme
300
Who won the presidential election of 1924?
Calvin Coolidge
300
What was the name and abbreviation for Herbert Hoover's act that gave loans to nearly bankrupt businesses?
RFC; Reconstruction Finance Corporation
300
What Japanese city did the US drop the second atomic bomb on in 1945?
Nagasaki
300
Who was the 8th and final leader of the Soviet Union?
Mikhail Gorbachev
400
What was the aggressive German military strategy to fight the war on two fronts called?
The Schlieffen Plan
400
Who was Al Capone's target during the Valentine's Day Massacre?
"Bugs" Moran
400
What were the 'three Rs' in FDR's New Deal?
Relief, Recovery, and Reform
400
How many Jewish people were killed in the Holocaust?
Approximately 6 million
400
How many days was the Berlin Blockade?
318 days
500
What was the nickname for the disease transmitted primarily by body lice that soldiers were often infected with during trench warfare?
Trench Fever
500
How many months was Herbert Hoover in office before the stock market crash of 1929?
8 months
500
Which part of FDR's New Deal that regulates the stock market is still in act today?
SEC; Securities and Exchange Commission.
500
What was the name of the philosophy Japanese soldiers followed that taught them it was more honorable to die rather than surrender to the enemy?
The Bushido Code
500
When the Soviet Union was dissolved, how many independent states did it break up into?
15
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