This Civil Rights leader said "I have a dream that one day, we will live in a nation where we will be judged not by the color of our skin but by the content of our character."
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?
100
This country was the enemy when the USA went to war in 1950.
What is North Korea?
100
This city-wide strike took place in 1919, when it was reported that "nothing moved but the tide".
What was the Seattle General Strike?
100
In 1928, drought and strong winds turned the farming regions of the Great Plains states into this.
What was the "Dust Bowl"?
100
These were built in President Eisenhower's administration to connect the states.
What are the Interstate Highways?
200
This President was responsible for attacking Japan with atomic bombs.
Who was President Harry Truman?
200
This Washington town produced nuclear fuel for atomic weapons.
What is Hanford?
200
This made buying, selling and making alcohol illegal. It was adopted in Washington in 1914 and repealed in 1933.
What was Prohibition?
200
This national park in Washington was created as part of the New Deal.
What is the Olympic National Park?
200
This gave WWII veterans money to go to college and buy a house.
What is the GI bill?
300
This President created the New Deal during the Great Depression.
Who was President Franklin D Roosevelt?
300
The Space Needle was the big attraction at this 1962 event.
What was the Seattle World's Fair?
300
In WWI not enough men signed up to fight so Congress passed a law called the Selective Service Act which required all men between the ages of 21 and 30 to sign up for military duty. This became known as...
What was the "draft"?
300
This project created jobs for thousands of men and later provided large quantities of hydroelectric power.
What is the Grand Coulee Dam?
300
This was the name of the world's first satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.
What is Sputnik?
400
This man built a seaplane in 1916, and flew airmail between Seattle and Vancouver in 1919. Later, his company became the largest in Washington.
Who was William Boeing?
400
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, in this state, on December 7th, 1941.
What is Hawaii?
400
75,000 men from Washington fought in WWI. Most of them fought in the trenches in this European country.
What is France?
400
This was a world-wide economic collapse that began with the New York stock market crash and lasted through the 1930s
What was The Great Depression?
400
In the 1950s, the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in this type of conflict where they built lots of weapons but did not fight each other directly.
What is the Cold War?
500
This President created NASA.
Who was President Eisenhower?
500
Many of these Washington residents were sent to the Minidoka Relocation Center in the Idaho desert, early in 1942.
What were Japanese Americans?
500
In the 1910, the state of Washington approved this, ten years before the national constitutional amendment.
What was women's right to vote.
500
These countries were Allies of the USA in World War II.