His assassination was the "spark" that started World War I.
Who is Archduke Ferdinand?
100
When a bank takes over your house or farm because you can not repay the loan.
What is foreclosure?
100
The event that got the United States involved in World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
100
To refuse to buy a product or service.
What is boycott?
100
Schools kids practiced this because of the threat of a nuclear attack.
What is duck and cover drills?
200
This new type of warfare left soldiers in the mud, rats, infested with lice and disease and little food or clean water.
What are trenches?
200
The nickname given to shantytowns.
What is a Hooverville?
200
The HUGE invasion of France by the Allied powers to conquer the Germans. The beginning of the end of the war in Europe.
What is D-Day or Operation Overload?
200
The main person involved in getting farm workers rights by fasting, marching and organizing boycotts.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
200
The three main countries invovled in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What are Cuba, United States and Soviet Union?
300
Germany's proposal to Mexico to help in the war was sent in this. If Mexico helped, they would reclaim the parts of the U.S. they lost.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
300
The name given to the area that experienced lots of black blizzards due to drought and poor farming procedures.
What is the Dust Bowl?
300
The Allied strategy of moving closer and closer to Japan in the Pacific Ocean. Going from one to the next, only if they would benefit the Allies.
What is island hopping?
300
The group of people that tested the segregation laws by riding around on Greyhound busses.
Who are the Freedom Riders?
300
The chemical used to clear the jungle but also affected citizens. (Remember the famous picture we looked at)
What is napalm?
400
The president that asked Congress to declare war on Germany.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
400
The New Deal agengy that put a lot of young men to work planting trees, building roads, creating parks such as some in MN like Itasca and Gooseberry Falls.
What is Civilian Conservation Corp or CCC?
400
One of the largest and most infamous concentration camps. We saw Oprah interview survivor Elie Wiesel there.
What is Auschwitz?
400
The organization that Dennis Banks started to unify Native Americans fight for their rights.
What is American Indian Movment or AIM?
400
The fear that one country would fall to communism, then another, then another....
What is the domino theory?
500
The treaty that ended WWI that was harsh on Germany and the cause for WWII.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
500
The very well known photographer that documented family living during the Great Depression including the photo "Migrant Mother".
Who is Dorthea Lange?
500
The MN company that made clothing for the military. (They also made underwear.)
What is Munsingwear?
500
The goal of the takeover of Alcatraz.
What is education and treaty rights (land)?
500
The line of latitude where North and South Korea is divided.