This is the name of the fiction novel by Upton Sinclair that exposed labor abuse and unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry.
What is The Jungle?
100
The assassination of this person sparked WWI.
Who was the Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
100
The Immigration Act of 1924 barred this group from entering the United States?
Who are Asians?
100
This was the name of the British Prime Minister who is remembered for his policy of appeasing Hitler.
Who was Neville Chamberlain?
100
This is the name of the physical and ideological barrier that separated the East from the West after WWII ended.
What was the Iron Curtain?
200
This is what people like Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, and Lincoln Steffen were called when they exposed social problems through journalism.
Who were the muckrackers?
200
This is the name of the communication between Germany and its ambassador in Mexico offering Mexico land in return for support in Germany's war aims.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
200
This trial, about barring the teaching of evolution in schools, captured the focus of the national media.
What was the Scopes Trial?
200
This was the event that caused the outbreak of WWII.
What was Hitler's invasion of Poland?
200
This is the name of the country that fell to Communism in 1949 and later experienced the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.
What is China?
300
This president was an avid outdoorsman who started preserving land as national parks. He is also remembered for trust-busting.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
300
This is the name of the ship that was sunk by a German U-boat. Most Americans feel the sinking triggered the war, but America did not enter the war until two years later.
What was the RMS Lusitania?
300
This is the name of FDR's plan that included things like a federal takeover of the T.V.A., job creation through the W.P.A., and creation of the Social Security Administration.
What was the New Deal?
300
This is the name of the event that brought the United States into World War II.
What was the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
300
This is the name of the response to Stalin's blockade of West Berlin.
What was the Berlin Airlift?
400
This amendment to the Constitution made the sale of alcohol illegal. It was later overturned by the 21st Amendment.
What is the 18th Amendment?
400
This is the name of the man who led the Marxist revolution in Russia in 1917.
Who was Vladimir Lenin?
400
This is the event that was caused by farmers not employing dryland farming techniques in the Midwest.
What was the Dust Bowl?
400
This is the common name used for the massive Allied landing on the beaches of Normandy, France in June 1944.
What is D-Day?
400
This was the name of the event that developed after U.S. intelligence discovered missiles on Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
500
This man authored Ways of White Folks, was the first African-American to graduate from Harvard, and co-founded the NAACP.
Who was W.E.B. DuBois?
500
This is the name of the policy that warned Europeans not to interfere or colonize the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
500
This was the tariff that was meant to protect the American economy from European imports, but resulted in a tariff war that destroyed international trade.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff?
500
This is the name of the event that resulted in the extermination of 1/3 of the Jewish population.
What is the Holocaust?
500
This is the border that separates North Korea and South Korea.