What U.S. President broke diplomatic relations with Germany when Germany announced that it would wage unrestricted submarine warfare in the Atlantic?
Who is WILSON
100
In what year did the stock market fall in an event called Black Tuesday?
What is 1929
100
Who led Germany during WW II?
Who is A. HITLER
100
FDR's "Good Neighbor" policy was toward what region?
What is LATIN AMERICA
100
What U.S. Battleship was sunk during the Spanish-American War do to an accidental internal explosion on the ship?
What is the U.S.S. MAINE
200
Name 1 of the 2 battles of World War I in which United States forces engaged?
What is St. Mihiel or the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.
200
Businesses people used what event to break the backs of fledgling unions?
What is the RED SCARE
200
What biology teacher was found guilty of teaching evolution and fined?
Who is JOHN SCOPES
200
What country did Mussolini invade in 1935?
What is ETHIOPIA
200
The two immigrant ethnic groups who were most harshly treated in the mid to late nineteenth century were the
What is Irish and Chinese.
300
The Zimmermann note involved a proposed secret agreement between what TWO countries?
What is GERMANY & MEXICO
300
What top gangster was finally convicted and sent to prison for the crime of income tax evasion?
Who is AL CAPONE
300
To secure passage of the Underwood Tariff Bill what U.S. President personally presenting his case to Congress and arousing public opinion?
Who is WOODROW WILSON
300
Who led the Nationalist takeover of Spain in the 1930s?
Who was FRANCO
300
America's first billion-dollar corporation was
What is United States Steel.
400
The fundamental strategic decision of World War II made by President Roosevelt and the British at the very beginning of the war was to concentrate against what enemy?
What is GERMANY
400
What group virtually collapsed in the late 1920s when the organization was publicly exposed as a corrupt and cynical racket.
What is KU KLUX KLAN
400
The Philippine nationalist who led the insurrection against both Spanish rule and the later United States occupation was
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo.
400
What FDR critic developed the slogan "$200 a month for everyone over 60?"
Who is Francis Townsend
400
Passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act was inspired by the publication of what book?
What is THE JUNGLE
500
The first naval battle in history in which all the fighting was done by carrier-based aircraft was the Battle of
What is CORAL SEA
500
What act. passed in 1924, discriminated directly against southern and eastern Europeans and Japanese?
What is THE IMMIGRATION ACT OF 1924
500
The most tenacious pursuer of radical elements during the red scare of the early 1920s was
What is A. MITCHELL PALMER
500
What was the only European nation to pay off its World War I debts to the United States, but was then invaded by the Soviet Union in 1939-1940?
What is FINLAND
500
The most effective and most enduring labor union of the post-Civil War period was the