World War II
The Cold War
The Great Depression
The New Deal
Bonus
100
This was the event that caused America to enter World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
100
This separated East and West Berlin during the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
100
If you needed a meal, you could get one at one of these establishments for free.
What is a soup kitchen or breadline?
100
This is the name policies aimed as economic stability and recovery during the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
100
This was the name of the operation to create the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
200
This was the code-name for the invasion of German occupied France on the beach of Normandy.
What is D-Day?
200
They were communist leaders of Russia and China in the early years of the Cold War.
Who were Joseph Stalin or Nikita Khrushchev and Mao Zedong?
200
These were slums outside of cities, some were named after a certain political figure.
What are “Shantytowns” or “Hoovervilles”?
200
This was a regular radio address to the American people by President Roosevelt.
What is a fireside chat?
200
This Georgian peanut farmer would go on to become the President.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
300
This was the German strategy of quick attacks with combined tank, plane, and infantry.
What is blitzkrieg?
300
This was a failed American attempt to start a coup against Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
300
This was the worst man made ecological disaster in America, which almost destroyed the Great Plains.
What is the Dustbowl?
300
This was the nickname for people who migrated to California during the Dust Bowl.
What are Okies?
300
This new mechanical sounding music was extremely popular during the 70s.
What is disco?
400
These were the only cities to ever be attacked with an atomic weapon.
What are Hiroshima & Nagasaki?
400
This was an American plan for lending money to European nations to rebuild after World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
400
These were veterans of World War I who wanted to be paid early and marched to Washington.
What is the Bonus Army?
400
This is when a bank takes back property one is unable to pay the loan for.
What is foreclosure?
400
This was the nickname critics of the New Deal gave programs like the CCC, NRA, TVA, PWA, etc.
What is “Alphabet Soup”?
500
These were the three leaders of the Axis powers.
Who are Emperor Hirohito, Benito Mussolini, and Adolf Hitler?
500
This was the first artificial satellite, which was launched by the Soviet Union.
What is Sputnik?
500
This risky financial practice, done in mass, helped in part to bring about the Great Depression.
What is buying on credit/margin?
500
This is when a government spends more money than it collects in revenue.
What is deficit spending?
500
This is the year we celebrated our country’s bicentennial.
What is 1976?
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