World War I
Often cited as the starting event of WWI
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This amendment repealed Prohibition
What is the 21st Amendment?
True or False: Effects of the Great Depression only affected American citizens
What is False?
Japanese fighter planes used this tactic when attacking Pearl Harbor
What is divebombing?
An unknown man wearing William and Mary garb sits atop this divisive structure in a photo we looked at.
Name of the enemy group in WWI
What are the Central Powers?
The Harlem Renaissance was an explosion of African American culture in this city
What is New York?
This economic structure crashing was one of the major factors of the Great Depression
What is the stock market?
Creator of fascism
Who is Benito Mussolini?
The concept that claimed if one country fell to communism, others around it would fall as a result
What is Domino Theory?
Nation that dropped out of WWI due to facing their own revolution
What is Russia?
Hidden bars that people could drink at illegally
What are speakeasies?
Natural disaster that made much farmland unusable
What is the Dust Bowl
These two cities were devastated by atomic bombs
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Name of the first satellite that made it into orbit
What is Sputnik I
Name of the cruise ship sunk by German U-Boats
What is the Lusitania?
Book written by F. Scott Fitzgerald about the lifestyles of the 1920s
What is The Great Gatsby?
Author of the Grapes of Wrath
Who is John Steinbeck?
Document between Germany and the USSR that kept them from fighting at the start of WWII
What is a non-aggression pact?
This aspect of the Vietnam War made the reaction at home much different than it had been in the past (think technology)
What is it being the first televised war?
President Woodrow Wilson's plan for restoring peace after WWI
What are the Fourteen Points?
Instances of racism in the north/midwest
What are the Chicago Race Riots?
When the value of money becomes less than what it was previously
What is inflation?
Roughly this many Jews died in the Holocaust
What is 6 million?
The Soviet Union had missiles in Cuba. The United States had missiles in this country
What is Turkey?