People
Geography
War Stuff
The 1940s & 50s
WDSTF & Cool Somethings
100

This man taught people how to gather their own salt 

Gandhi

100

This word means a collection of islands

Archipelago

100

This is the term for the relentless bombing of England by the Germans during WWII.

What is blitzkrieg?
100

This woman wouldn't give up her bus seat and helped lead a city-wide boycott of the bus companies.

Who is Rosa Parks?

100

The first words of We Didn't Start the Fire, this man became President during WWII when FDR died.

Who is Harry Truman?

200

This man is responsible for more deaths than anyone else in the history of the world. 

Mao Tse Dong

200

When India finally won its independence from Great Britain, it was divided into two countries. India and _______.

What is Pakistan

200

The terms of the end of WWI were settled in France at this meeting.

What is the Treaty of Versailles
200

This is the system in India that separated people between classes. They couldn't get out of a class that they were born into.

What is the caste system?

200

These giant air ships were used to drop Hitler propaganda before WWII.

What are Zepellins?
300

This man was the first black baseball player to play on a traditionally white team. 

Who was Jackie Robinson?

300

These three modern countries used to be called French Indochina. 

Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand

300

The shooting of this man marked the beginning of WWI. 

Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria/Hungary

300

This man studied in England and the US and wanted an independent Vietnam, free from French control.

Who is Ho Chi Minh?

300

People who hid liquor in Bibles, under their coats, and even in their shoes. 

Who were Bootleggers?

400

The Red Scare in the 1950s was led by this man.

Who is Josephy McCarthy.

400

This country lies in between China and Russia.

What is Mongolia?
400

This is the term for a rivalry between countries where no actual fighting takes place.

What is a Cold War?

400

This man bought a ticket for a whites-only section of a train, leading to a famous court case declaring "Separate But Equal" to be constitutional.

Homer Plessy

400

Parachutists used these to communicate when they dropped in behind enemy lines on D-Day.

What were clickers?

500

At the end of WWII, this General, who would later be President, made sure that newspaper reporters and photographers documented the concentration camps so no one would forget them. 

Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower

500

These are the four peninsulas in Asia.

What are Saudi Arabia, India, N/S Korea, and Cambodia/Vietnam/Thailand

500

This General landed at Inchon Harbor and helped push back the North Koreans across the 38th Parallel

MacArthur

500

This case about black and white schools overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson and ended Separate But Equal.

What is Brown vs. The Board of Education?
500

This husband and wife start the second verse of Billy Joel's masterpiece. They were put to death for giving away US atomic bomb secrets to the Russians. 

Who were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?

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