Presidents
He worked to protect America’s wilderness and helped establish the National Parks system.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This event, on December 7, 1941, instigated the US into joining WWII.
What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
Part of the New Deal, meant to create jobs and finish construction and road projects throughout the country.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
He invented the lightbulb and the phonograph (and was NOT a president).
Who was Thomas Edison
When someone avoids the question or inserts something irrelevant.
What is a red herring?
He was a World War II general and was elected as the 34th president.
Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This country tried to remain neutral in the Great War and did so until Germany tried to form a secret alliance with Mexico.
What is the USA?
The first African-American baseball player to make it to the pros.
Who was Jackie Robinson?
This copper gift from France stands 305 feet tall.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
Changing or exaggerating an opponent’s position to make it easier to refute.
What is a Straw Man?
This president was impeached and resigned after the Watergate Scandal.
Who is Richard Nixon?
Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, the US, and China. Hint: WWII
Who are the Allied Powers?
This volcano erupted in 1980 and sent ash and smoke all across the country.
What is Mount St. Helens?
The first man to walk on the moon on July 20, 1969.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
When someone asks two questions, but one is hidden behind the other.
What is a loaded question?
He was president when the attack on the World Trade Center happened on September 11, 2001, and declared war on terrorism.
Who is George W. Bush?
This dictator led Germany in WWII and tortured the Jewish people in concentration camps.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
This woman refused to ride in the back of the bus and prompted the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.
Who was Rosa Parks?
He fought for Civil Rights for African-Americans and led the million man march in Washington D.C.
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?
When someone asserts that we must choose between two things, when in fact we have more than two alternatives.
What is Either-Or?
He was the only president to serve three terms and and implemented the New Deal.
Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
The peace treaty that would have led to further stability in Europe and Asia, had it ever been signed.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Who is John Philip Sousa?
She was an activist for equality, a First Lady, and served as a delegate in the United Nations.
Who was Eleanor Roosevelt?
Getting us to move our good or bad feelings about one thing to another unrelated thing.
What is transfer?