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US in the World
1900 to 1945 at Home
Cold War
Life after WWII
100

What American holiday, also known as Independence Day, is characterized by fireworks?

What is the 4th of July

100

During what war was Hitler the leader of Germany?

What is World War II?

100

What style of government was used by the USSR?

What is communisn?

100

What was the name of the wall dividing the German capital during the Cold War?

What is the Berlin Wall?

100

What movement supports equality for women?

What is feminism?

200

What document gave the American colonies independence from Great Britain?

What is the Declaration of Independence?

200

What event led the US to join WWII?

What is Pearl Harbor?

200

What was the name of the ban on alcoholic beverages in the U.S. that was later repealed?

What is Prohibition?

200

What was the name of the first satellite to ever be launched into space, launched by the Soviets as part of the Space Race?

What is Sputnik?

200

What was the name of the famous bus boycott led by MLK Jr.?

What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

300

What is the name of the list of the first ten amendments to the US Constitution?

What is the Bill of Rights?
300

Which treaty ended WWI?

What is the Treaty of Versailles?

300

What is the nickname for the day of the stock market crash that began the Great Depression?

What is Black Tuesday?

300

What were the US's attempts to stop the spread of communist in Europe and Asia called?

What is containment?

300

What case of the Supreme Court overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and the separate but equal idea?

What is Brown v. Board of Education?

400

What are the rights that all people are believed to inherently have? 

What are natural rights?

400

What were the names of the cities which nukes were launched on in WWII?

What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

400

What is the name of the various programs and reforms that FDR instituted to combat the Great Depression?

What is the New Deal?

400

What was the name of the campaign to rout out communists and traitors using false allegations and controversial interrogation methods.

What is McCarthyisn?

400

What is the nickname for the 1950s emphasizing the rise of consumerism?

What is the Age of Affluence?

500

What was the group of documents written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay in support of the Constitution and a federal government called?

What are the Federalist Papers?

500

What was the name of the order that allowed the US to start Japanese internment camps in WWII?

What is Executive Order 9066?

500

What is the name of the time period when African-American music, dance, art, and other aspects of culture were revived?

What is the Harlem Renaissance?

500

What theory included the idea that if one country fell to communism, others nearby would follow?

What is Domino Theory?

500

What act made it illegal to make voting requirements based on race or color like literacy tests or the grandfather clause?

What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

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