The nickname given to hidden bars where people went to drink durring prohibition.
What is a speakeasy
100
Colorful name given to October, 29th 1929.... the day the stock market crashed.
Yes I know this technically happened in the 20's but it ushered in the 30's. :-)
What was Black Tuesday
100
Known in Germany as Der Fuhrer, he promised to bring that country out of chaos.
Who was Adolf Hitler
100
This is the Korean country that is still under communism.
What is North Korea
100
The father of the civil rights movement
Who is Martin Luther King
200
When the Eighteenth Amendment went into affect it launched this era. HINT: The time when it was illigal to buy or sell alcohol.
What is Prohibition
200
This is the nickname given to the period from 1929 to 1940 in which the economy plummeted and unemployment skyrocketed.
What is The Great Depression
200
One of the most important political leaders of all time, he was the Prime Minister of Britain during most of WWII.
Who was Winston Churchill
200
This US Senator led the HUAC on a communist wich hunt and ruined many people's lives with unfounded acusations.
Who was Senator Joseph McCarthy
200
This crisis ended off the coast of Cuba when Soviet Ships carrying nuclear missle parts turned around and sailed back to Russia
What is The Cuban Missle Crisis
300
This trial was a fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools.
What was the Scopes Monkey Trial
300
Name given to the Great Plains area of the US that was plagued with droughts and wind storms.
What was The Dust Bowl
300
This was Hitler's "Final Solution to the Jewish question."
What was The Holocaust
300
In the 50's many people moved from uban settings to this area where cheap houses were being built.
What is the suburbs
300
This 1980's US President was known as The Great Communicator.
Who was Ronald Reagan
400
Nickname given to a 20's woman that cut her hair short, wore knee-length dresses, long strands of beads, and danced The Charleston.
What is a flapper
400
Name given to Franklin Roosevelt's program which was designed to alleviate the problems of the Great Depression.
What was The New Deal
400
The date that the Allied Forces began the invasion of France June 6th, 1944 (67 years ago this week) is known to history by this other name.
What is D-Day
400
Name given to the years following WWII due to an unprecedented population explosion.
What is The Baby Boom
400
These two guys invented the personal computer. Name one or both of them.
Who are Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
500
Centered in a neighborhood in New York, this was the name given to the literary and artistic movement that celebrated African American culture in the 1920's
What was The Harlem Renaissance
500
Name of Orson Welles famous radio program that sent people across the country paniking and fearing an alien invasion.
What is The War of The Worlds
500
These are the nicknames given to the bombs that were droped on Hirshima and Nagasaki, ending WWII.
What are Little Boy and Fat Man.
500
This guy is widely considered the King of Rock and Roll