1920s
Who was President during much of the 1920s and helped build a dam on San Carlos?
Calvin Coolidge
What was the name of the British Prime Minister who declared he had achieved Peace with Hitler in 1938?
Neville Chamberlain
Who led Germany during WWII until his suicide in 1945?
Adolf Hitler
What was the name of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, appointed by President Eisenhower, whose landmark decisions fueled the Civil Rights Movement?
Earl Warren
Who were the two Presidential candidates that had the first televised debate?
Kennedy and Nixon
What was the name of the criminal known as scarface?
Al Capone
What was the name of the radio addresses made by FDR during his presidency?
Fireside Chats
What was the largest battle of WWII?
The Battle of Stalingrad
Who led the CIA during the Eisenhower years?
Allen Dulles
What was the name of the CIA orchestrated invasion of Cuba?
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
What substance was made illegal by the 18th Amendment?
Alcohol
What did Japan do as a result of the Mukden Incident?
It annexed Manchuria
Which President authorized the dropping of nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
What happened between President Truman and General MacArthur during the Korean War?
Truman relieved MacArthur
What was Martin Luther King Jr.'s position on the Vietnam War in the late 1960s?
What economic disaster began in 1929?
The Great Depression
What was the name of the German man who helped saves 100,000s of Chinese people in Nanjing in 1938?
John Rabe
What was the name of the Concentration Camp where a Soviet POW led a rebellion against the guards?
Sobibor
How did the Korean War end?
Which counterculture singer, who died of a heroin overdose at the age of 27, wrote the song Mercedes Benz?
Janis Joplin
What was a key issue that motivated the Ku Klux Klan during the 1920s?
Opposition to immigration, especially by Catholic and Jewish people
What event is seen as the beginning of WWII in Europe?
The German invasion of Poland in 1939
Where did the Japanese surrender at the end WWII?
The USS Missouri
What was MK Ultra?
The CIA project studying mind control which produced LSD
Which Democratic candidate ran against Richard Nixon in 1968?
Hubert Humphrey