Interwar Years

Roaring 20s

100

This worldwide disease winded down to start the 1920s off right!

What is the Spanish Flu?

200

That's enough fun for one decade!  This 1929 stock market crash happened on a day better known as this:

What is Black Tuesday?

300

When you own a tiny part of a company, you own one of these:

What are shares, or stocks?

400

Things not so great in Germany!  Their money was experiencing this, because they were printing too much!

What is hyperinflation?

500

When things are good, like in the 1920s, the economy can be said to be not exploding, not blasting, but... this!

What is booming?

Not so Roaring 30s

100

The 1930s became known as this period, because of the lasting, bad economy.

What is the Great Depression?

200

People headed to the banks in huge numbers to get all their money in the early 1930s, in one of these:

What is a bank run?

300

Middle American Drought in the 1930s led to this natural disaster for North Americans farming:

What is the Dust Bowl?

400

This event ended the economic bad times of the 1930s.

What is World War Two?

500

These were created to protect American businesses in 1930.  They hurt global trade and made things worse.

What are the Smoot-Hawley Tariffs?

Wars After All

100

This country saw Civil War, with a fascist leader taking over, with some help from Europe's other fascist leaders.

What is Spain?

200

Train tracks in this Chinese region got blown up, causing Japan to invade!  It turns out that the Japanese attacked themselves.

What is Manchuria?

300

Whoops!  By September 1st, 1939, it became clear that the League of Nations definitely failed, because this country got invaded, starting WWII.

What is Poland?

400

This African country got invaded, despite being a League of Nations member - when the League of Nations confronted the invader, the invading country quit.

What is Abyssinia, or Ethiopia?

500

This Asian country got invaded early in the Interwar Years - their invader wasn't a League member, though, so the League did nothing.

What is Iran, or Persia?

Road to Round Two

100

The Nazis called this man Fuhrer - it is German for "Leader", and was given to him in return for his promises to make Germany strong again.  He'd start by rebuilding their powerful army and re-taking nearby territory.

Who is Adolf Hitler?

200

This Treaty said what Germany had to do to end WWI.  The Germans felt it treated them very unfairly - it wouldn't take long for them to break it.

What is the Treaty of Versailles?

300

This man marched on Rome in 1922, taking power and starting the rise of the fascists.

Who is Benito Mussolini?

400

Austria and this European country are taken over by Germany - the old Allies respond with a policy of Appeasement.

What is Czechoslovakia?

500

This man had become leader of China by WWII - an early thing he did was ask the League of Nations for help with Japan's invasion of his country.  The League failed.

Who is Chiang Kai-Shek?