Well, That's Depressing
A Growing Nation
Baby, It's Cold Outside
Powerful People
Two is Bigger than One
100

drought and dust storms in the Great Plains during the 1930s

What is the Dust Bowl?

100

island in New York Harbor that served as an immigration station for millions of immigrants arriving to the United States

What is Ellis Island?

100

worldwide rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union

What is the Cold War?

100

leader of the communist Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953; he led the Soviet Union through World War II and its post-war expansion

Who was Josef Stalin?

100

group of countries led by Britain, France, the United States, and the Soviet Union that fought the Axis Powers in World War II

Who were the Allies?

200

October 29, 1929, when a mass panic caused a crash in the stock market and massive losses for stockholders

What is "Black Tuesday"?

200

human-made waterway linking the Atlantic to the Pacific across the Isthmus of Panama

What is the Panama Canal?

200

program in which U.S. and British pilots flew supplies to West Berlin during a Soviet blockade

What was the Berlin Airlift?

200

32nd president of the United States who led the country through the later part of the Great Depression and through World War II

Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?

200

American military base in Hawaii attacked by the Japanese on December 7, 1941

What is Pearl Harbor?

300

informal radio broadcasts in which President Franklin D. Roosevelt explained his view of issues at hand to average Americans

What are fireside chats?

300

American inventor who held over 1,000 patents, including for the invention of the light bulb

Who was Thomas A. Edison?

300

1962 conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union resulting from the Soviet installation of nuclear missiles in Cuba

What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?

300

Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1940 to 1945; he led Great Britain through World War II

Who was Winston Churchill?

300

code name of the U.S. government research project that developed the atomic bomb

What was the Manhattan Project?

400

programs and laws created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to promote economic recovery and social reform in response to the Great Depression

What is the New Deal?

400

exclusive control by one company over an entire industry

What is a monopoly?

400

Supreme Commander of all Allied forces during World War II; later served as U.S. president from 1953-1961

Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?

400

Chinese leader who led a successful communist revolution in China; ruled China from 1949 to 1976

Who was Mao Zedong?

400

Emperor of Japan during World War II

Who was Hirohito?

500

31st president of the United States who led the country through the early days of the Great Depression; had previously served as Secretary of Commerce under Presidents Harding and Coolidge

Who was Herbert Hoover?

500

Theodore Roosevelt's policy of creating and using, when necessary, a strong military to achieve America's goals

What is big stick diplomacy?

500

easing of tensions between the United States and the communist governments of the Soviet Union and China in the 1970s

What is detente?

500

Vietnamese national who led the revolt against French colonialism and later served as president of North Vietnam

Who was Ho Chi Minh?

500

decisive naval battle between U.S. and Japanese carrier fleets in which four Japanese carriers were sunk; generally considered the turning point of World War II in the Pacific

What was the Battle of Midway?

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