The Atomic Bomb
The name of the secret project that developed the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This was the primary reason immigrants from Europe came to the United States after the Civil War.
What is to seek a better life?
This is the name given to the worst mass killing in history. Millions of Jews along with others were murdered.
What is the Holocaust?
Ruling over a foreign country is called this.
What is imperialism?
These 2 states have the most NFL teams that actually play in the state.
What are California and Florida?
After the death of President Roosevelt on April 12, 1945, I became the President who decided to drop the atomic bombs on Japan.
Who is Harry Truman?
Many of the immigrants coming to the United States had to stop at this island in New York Harbor to be inspected before being allowed the country.
What is Ellis Island?
These camps were built for the sole purpose of killing large numbers of people. People who were strong enough to work were set aside, the rest were poisoned with cyanide gas.
What are concentration camps?
The Hawaiian Islands are about 2000 miles southeast of this U.S. state.
What is California?
NFL - When the quarterback makes a last attempt to throw the ball into the end zone as time runs out, it is referred to as this.
What is a Hail Mary?
This is the Japanese city where the United States dropped the first bomb.
What is Hiroshima?
Immigrants often felt out of place and isolated. They didn't speak English and missed their homelands. They formed neighborhoods in cities referred to as this.
What are ethnic neighborhoods?
Jews in all the countries under Hitler's control were moved to cities in Poland, like Warsaw. The small areas of the cities they were forced to live in were called this.
What is a Ghetto?
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This was Hawaii's most important export.
This is the number of periods in a hockey game.
What is 3?
I am the scientist who wrote a letter to President Roosevelt warning him that the German scientists were developing an atomic bomb and had successfully split the atom.
Who is Albert Einstein?
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Because so many people moved to the cities, there was not enough housing for them. They moved into small, crowded, often windowless apartments called this.
On November 9-10, 1938 Nazis burned Jewish synagogues and smashed the windows of Jewish businesses. The night is callled "Kristallnacht" or the night of the broken _______________.
What is glass?
Many people in the United States did not want to rule over colonies the way Great Britain had ruled over them. People that felt this way are called this.
What are isolationists?
MLB - When a player can bat either left of right handed, it is referred to as this.
What is a switch hitter?
The head of the Manhattan Project that helped develop the atomic bomb:my life was turned into a movie in 2023.
Who is Dr. Robert Oppenheimer?
In 1900, most foriegn-born Americans were from this continent.
What is Europe?
These laws retricted the rights of Jews in Germany and took away their citizenship.
What are the Nuremberg Laws?
The year that Hawaii became a part of the United States.
What is 1898? (or 1959)
This is the number of seconds a team has to get the ball past mid-court after a made basket.
What is 10 seconds?