Great Depression
The date the stock market crashed, helping cause the Great Depression.
What is October 29, 1929?
The four reasons for WWI using the mnemonic device MAIN.
What are Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism?
Hitler wrote this book while in prison.
What is Mein Kampf, or My Struggle?
What (NOT WHO) the U.S. was fighting against during the Cold War.
What is the spread of communisim?
The weight of the first modern computers.
What is 30 tons?
The countries that owed the U.S. money from WWI.
Who are Britain and France?
The two major European Alliances.
What are the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance?
The type of nation Hitler wanted to create?
What is an Aryan Nation?
The blockade that went up in the city of Berlin, cutting off East Germans to freedom.
What is the Berlin Wall?
The two groups that were part of the space race.
Who are the U.S. and U.S.S.R?
The program President Franklin D. Roosevelt created to combat the economic downturn.
What is the New Deal?
The assassination of this man was the trigger for the war.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Hitler set up these types of camps for Jews and other groups.
What are Concentration Camps?
The communist leader in China during the Cold War.
Who is Mao Zedong?
The event that occurred on September 11, 2001.
What are the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon?
This new public works program, which replaced FERA, created over 3 million new jobs.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
The new kind of warfare used during WWI.
What is Trench Warfare?
The event that brought the U.S. into the war.
The two wars the U.S. fought in to help keep communism out of those countries.
What are the Korean and Vietnam Wars?
The event occurred on April 20, 2010.
What is the oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico?
What the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) did to help the Great Depression.
What is raised food prices to help farmers?
Germany signed this treaty at the end of WWI, accepting sole responsibility for the war.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The event that ended the war in Japan and where it took place.
The person who became leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, who ended up ending the Cold War through his reforms.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
The most powerful earthquake ever recorded happened on this date and in this country.
What is March 11, 2011, in Japan?