Sink a Ship, Start a War
Would NOT Receive a Dinner Invite
Scandals
Get Down with Your Bad Self
Massacre!
100
Dec. 7, 1941
What is Pearl Harbor? (US entry into WW II)
100
He took advantage of Prohibition, amassing a fortune from bootlegging and other criminal activities in Chicago.
Who is Al Capone?
100
The wives of Jackson's cabinet were so rude to Peggy Eaton that Jackson fired all their husbands in this scandal.
What is the Petticoat Affair (Eaton Affair)?
100
This music form became popular during the 1920's and was the musical backdrop to the Harlem Renaissance.
What is jazz?
100
This armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes, against the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army was an overwhelming victory for the Native Americans.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn (Custer's Last Stand)?
200
To Hell with Spain! Remember the Maine!
What is the Spanish - American War?
200
Part of the Big Three, he killed more of his own people than WW II did.
Who is Josef Stalin?
200
This 1872 scandal involved members of Congress receiving bribes and stock options from the Union Pacific Railroad.
What is the Crédit Mobilier scandal?
200
Rock 'n' roll grew out of the blues and jazz music of the African-American community. During this era, many middle class white parents worried that it would corrupt their children.
What is the 1950's?
200
An armed conflict between this tribe and an alliance of the English colonists of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies. Took more than 350 years for them to regain political and economic power in what is now southeastern Connecticut.
What is the Pequot?
300
Sinking this boat, among others, broke the Sussex Pledge and pulled the US into WW I.
What is the Lusitania?
300
FDR called him "the most dangerous man in America" - his assassination ended his Share the Wealth program.
Who is Huey Long?
300
This 1972 scandal involved a break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in Washington, D.C., and the administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement.
What is Watergate?
300
Allen Ginsberg's poem 'The Howl' and Jack Kerouac's novel "On the Road" are example of literature that grew out of this countercultural movement.
What is the Beatnik (or Beats)?
300
This 1856 reaction to the sacking of Lawrence, KS, by pro-slavery forces, was led by John Brown and is credited with beginning "Bleeding Kansas."
What is Pottawatomie Massacre?
400
Four "ships" were hijacked and "sunk" into the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and a field in PA marking what this President would call a new "war on terror."
Who is George W. Bush?
400
Credited with being the "boss" of Tammany Hall, he played a major role in the politics of Gilded Age NYC.
Who is William M. Tweed
400
This 1950's scandal involved a series of revelations that contestants of several popular television game shows were secretly given assistance by the show's producers to arrange the outcome of a supposedly fair competition.
What is the Quiz Show?
400
This musical festival has come to symbolize the importance and impact of anti-war music during the Vietnam era.
What is Woodstock?
400
This university was the sight of the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis
What is Kent State?
500
The destroyer, USS Maddox, reported being attacked and returning fire in the Gulf of Tonkin. This event served as LBJ's legal justification for deploying troops and beginning open warfare in this conflict.
What is the Vietnam War?
500
Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979 and later named the eternal religious and political leader of Iran.
Who is the Ayatollah Khomeini?
500
Occurring during Reagan's administration, senior officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo, to secure the release of several US hostages. The money was used to fund a rebel group in Nicaragua. Funding of the Contras by the government had been prohibited by Congress.
What is the Iran Contra Affair?
500
Beginning as a subculture in the 1970's at block parties, by the 1980's this music was enjoyed by MTV, DJs, break dancers, and beat boxers nation-wide.
What is hip-hop (rap)?
500
This mass killing of between 347 to 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968 was committed by U.S. Army soldiers. When the story broke, it increased domestic opposition to involvement in the Vietnam War.
What is My Lai Massacre?
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