Major world event that marked the 1910s. Also called The Great War.
What is World War I?
100
The banning of alcohol beginning with the 18th Amendment to the Constitution.
What is prohibition?
100
Two "Big Ideas" of the 1930s.
What are The Great Depression and The Dustbowl?
100
This president was elected 4 times!
Who is President Franklin D Roosevelt?
200
George Eastman
Who is the "Father of the Modern Photography"?
200
Submarines, Tanks, Airplanes, Machine guns, and Poisonous gas. (STAMP)
What are the new weapons used during the first "modern" war, WW I?
200
Women that wore dresses that flapped around their knees when they danced so they earned this nickname.
What is "Flappers"?
200
These two things helped us get out of The Great Depression.
What are WW II and FDR's New Deal?
200
Name the Allied Powers and their leaders.
Who were Franklin Roosevelt and US, Winston Churchill and Great Britain, and Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union?
300
The "Fathers of Modern Flight"
Who are the Wright Brothers?
300
US soldiers during WW I.
What are doughboys?
300
Women finally gained the right to vote in 1920 because of the 19th Amendment. Name the term for "right to vote".
What is suffrage?
300
This was a set of government funded programs to get Americans back to work and help the economy get out of its depression.
What is FDR's New Deal?
300
Name the Axis Powers and their leaders.
Who were Adolf Hitler and Germany, Benito Mussolini and Italy, and Hirohito & Tojo and Japan?
400
President from 1897-1901 and was assassinated at the Pan American Fair.
Who is President McKinley?
400
WW I ended with this treaty.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
400
The burst of African American art, music and literature in Harlem, NY.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
400
This was due to over-farming and poor irrigation in the mid-west.
What is the Dustbowl?
400
World War II began when what happened and where.
What is when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939?
500
President from 1901-1909 and was the youngest president ever.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
500
The three tragedies that occurred in the 1910s all made worse because of unsafe working conditions.
What are the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, the sinking of the Titanic, and the Boston Molasses Flood?
500
The stock market crash in 1929 marked the beginning (but not only cause) of this...
What is The Great Depression?
500
A luxury air liner that exploded and crashed to the ground as it prepared to land in Lakehurst, New Jersey in 1937.
What is the Hindenburg?
500
This president took over for FDR when he died and made the decision to use nuclear bombs against Japan in these two cities. This action ended WW II on this date.
Who is President Truman, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on September 2, 1945?