Mystery Topic
Pre-WWII
WWII
Postwar Prosperity
The Cold War
100
He was the President during World War I
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
100
The December 7th attack on this port in Hawaii in 1941, led to the US involvement in WW II
What was the attack on Pearl Harbor?
100
WW II started in Europe when Hitler invaded this country in 1939.
What was Poland?
100
Ms. Dustin is part of this generation born after WWII
OK Boomer! What were the Baby Boomers!
100
The Cold War was a war of ideologies between...
Who are the US and Russia (U.S.S.R)?
200
These were new technologies used in WWI (name at least 2)
What is the machine gun, the submarine, the torpedo, the tank, mustard gas, or airplane?
200
He was the Chancellor of Germany who called for the invasion of German troops into Poland.
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Who was Adolf Hitler?
200
The War Production Board was in charge of reserving essential goods for the military and encouraged Americans to grow these...
What were "Liberty Gardens"?
200
These initials stand for the group of lawyers that challenged racist and discriminatory laws.
What was the N.A.A.C.P.?
200
This was a Proxy war during the Cold War Era...
What was the Korean War? OR
What was the Vietnam War?
300
This required adult males to register for possible conscription during WWI
What was the Selective Service Act?
300
These 3 acts, passed in the 1930's, were meant to 
keep the US out of foreign entanglements.
What were the "Neutrality Acts"?
300
Executive Order 9066 sent Japanese Americans to these...
What are internment camps.
300
These were built in the back yards of some American homes based on Cold War fears.
What were Bomb Shelters?
300
He was the Revolutionary leader of Cuba for 49 years
Who was Fidel Castro?
400
He was the fascist leader of Italy known as "Il Duce"
Who was Benito Mussolini?
400
This was passed by Roosevelt to allow the US to loan weapons to Great Britain to be paid for or returned after the war.
What was the "Lend Lease Act"?
400
The U.S. secretly developed atomic weapons under this name
What was the Manhattan Project?
400
This Supreme Court decision overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson
What was Brown V.s Board of Ed.?
400
This was the failed invasion that tarnished JFK's reputation.
What was the Bay of Pigs invasion?
500
As part of Wilson's 14-point plan, this organization served as a body of world leaders meant to avoid conflict by negotiating world problems rather than going to war. The US never joined.
What was the League of Nations?
500
This was the policy worked out at the Munich Conference in 1938 when British and French leaders allowed Hitler to annex Austria and take over the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia.
What is "Appeasement"?
500
The New Big three included these world leaders
Who were Truman, Stalin, and Churchill,
500
He opposed Martin Luther King's non-violent protest and was famous for his quote "By any means necessary".
Who was Malcolm X?
500
He was the Senator from Wisconsin that led the (H.U.A.C.) House on Un-American Activities Investigations.
Who was Senator Joe McCarthy?