World War I
The Roaring Twenties
The Great Depression
World War II
The Cold War
100
Countries including Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, and Russia.
What are the Allied Powers?
100
A new kind of music who's artists included Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and many others.
What is jazz?
100
Market where stocks are bought and sold.
What is the stock market?
100
A famous leader with complete authority over the country.
Who is dictator Adolf Hitler?
100
Programs by Harry S. Truman that increased minimum wage, created housing for the less fortunate, provided money for housing and education for Veterans, and ended segregation in 1948.
What is the "Fair Deal"?
200
New submarines that sunk the "Lusitainia" and many other ships which pushed the United States to join the war.
What are German U-boats?
200
Made the first solo nonstop airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 33 hours and 29 minutes.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
200
Included the stock market crash, high unemployment rates, and banks closing.
What is the Great Depression?
200
The two different powers in World War II.
What are the Axis and Allies? Axis: Germany, Japan, and Italy. Allies: Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States.
200
A war fought with words, ideas, money, and sometimes force between the two most powerful countries, the United States and the Soviet Union.
What is the Cold War?
300
Three new forms of weaponry used in World War I.
What are machine guns, tanks, and poison gas?
300
New technology in the 1920's.
What are automobiles, radios, "talkies", newspapers, and magazines?
300
Main states affected by the Dust Bowl.
What are Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma?
300
Japanese bombing on December 7, 1941 that brought the United States into the war.
What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
300
The imaginary line separating Europe's communist countries from the noncommunist countries.
What is the "Iron Curtain"?
400
Large numbers of African Americans traveling to the Northeast and Middle West to escape poverty and discrimination.
What is The Great Migration?
400
Passed on August 26, 1920 and gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
400
Roosevelt's program of change to help rebuild the country after the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.
What is the New Deal?
400
Massive invasion on December 6th at Normandy, France.
What is D-Day?
400
The war in Asia that began when communist North Korea invaded noncommunist South Korea to unite the countries under a communist rule.
What is the Korean War?
500
Occurring after Germany's surrender on November 11, 1918, this took away Germany's colonies, redrew it's national borders, and demanded they pay fines to the Allied powers.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
500
The proper sequence of these events: the first commercial radio station, the appearance of motels, Lindbergh's Atlantic flight, the 19th Amendment.
What is the 19th Amendment, the first commercial radio station, the appearance of motels, Lindbergh's Atlantic flight?
500
Programs created by Roosevelt that earned his government to be known as the "Alphabet Administration".
What is the WPA: Works Progress Administration, CCC: Civilian Conservation Corps, TVA: Tennessee Valley Authority?
500
Germany's attempt to destroy the Jewish people through the use of concentration camps and work camps.
What is the Holocaust?
500
The competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to build the world's most powerful weapons, including nuclear weapons that could potentially end all life on Earth.
What is the arms race?
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