The amendment to the constitution that made the sale and consumption of alcohol illegal.
What is prohibition?
100
The holocaust
What is the slaughtering of Jews called?
100
1945 to 1991
What are the dates of the Cold War?
100
They were trying to keep communism from spreading.
Why was the US involved in the Korean and Vietnam wars?
200
The assassination of the heir to the throne of Austria Hungary
What started the War?
200
The buying and selling of shares in companies.
What is the stock market?
200
Britain, United States, and later Russia
Who were the main Allied Powers?
200
The distrust between the US and Russia that resulted in an arms race but never direct conflict. Instead, they fought in other countries.
What is the Cold War
200
Korean War 1950 and Vietnam War 1964-1975
What are the dates of each war?
300
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey
Who were the Central Powers?
300
Because all of the technological advances, credit, and business speculations caused an increase in spoiled new millionaires.
Why is the turn of the 20th century sometimes called the Gilded Age?
300
The belief that a unique group of people should rule and that other people are inferior.
What is fascism?
300
The US and the USSR trying to reach space first. The USSR started with a satellite named Sputnik but the US finally won by reaching the moon
What is the Space Race (how does it start and end)?
300
Nothing really happened. Communist stayed in control of the north and the south remained independent.
What was the result of the Korean War
400
Great Britain, France, Russia, United States
Who are the Allied Powers?
400
The stock market crash & the run on banks.
What happened in 1929 and 1930?
400
Germany (Hitler), Italy (Mussolini), Japan (Hirohito), Russian - although the flipped (Stalin)
Who are the Axis Powers & the leader of each?
400
There was a military government and Fidel Castro tried to overthrow them. The US tried to help him but failed with the battle at the Bay of Pigs. Then Castro turned to the USSR and they started supplying nuclear bombs. The US freaked out and threatened war.
What happened in Cuba?
400
They first wanted independence from France and when they received aid from Russia, the US got involved in order to keep the communism from spreading.
Why was there fighting in Vietnam?
500
The US joined the war at the Western Front in France and pushed through forcing Germany to surrender
How did WWI end?
500
The stock market crash
The run on banks
The drought which caused the Dust Bowl
People stopped spending money
What are the 4 causes of The Great Depression?
500
The US got involved when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. The US invaded Italy until the Italians forced Mussolini out. They joined Britain to take back France and invaded Germany while the USSR invaded from the east.
How did WWII end in both Europe and Asia?
500
Gorbachev began creating more free market style policies and Reagan and Gorbachev agreed to a decrease in short range nuclear weapons.
How did the Cold War end?
500
The US did not help end the conflict. We pulled out because we were not winning and the war was very unpopular in the US.
What was the result of the US fighting in Vietnam?