Turn of the Century
WWl
Great Depression and WWll
End of WWll
Cold War
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Which state had the most cattle?
Texas
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How did WWl start?
The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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What started the Great Depression?
The Stock Market Crash of 1929
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What is V-E day and V-J day?
Victory in Europe, and victory in Japan
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What is a Cold War?
a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats and propaganda
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What disease made the French building the Panama Canal stop?
yellow fever
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Which ship sunk which was from America?
The Lusitania
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Who were the presidents during the Great Depression?
Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt?
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Where and how many atomic bombs did Truman dropped on Japan?
2-Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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What is the Iron Curtain?
a national barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989.
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Why did people move to America?
Manifest Destiny
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What made the United States be in WWl?
The zimmermann note (Germany trying to get Mexico to be on their team)
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What created the Dust Bowl?
Severe drought
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What is D-day?
the day in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.
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What is the Berlin Airlift?
Soviet forces blockaded rail, road, and water access to Allied-controlled areas of Berlin.
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Who was president during Spanish-American War
William McKinley
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What is Babe Ruth's real name?
George Herman Ruth
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What people entertained everyone during WWll?
Jesse Owens, Duke Ellington, and Margaret Mitchell
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Who was Rosie the Riveter?
the star of a campaign aimed at recruiting female workers for defense industries during World War II
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What is NATO's purpose?
NATO's fundamental goal is to safeguard the Allies' freedom and security by political and military means.
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What people were very famous during the Turn of the Century for their inventions?
Wright brothers (flight), Alexander Graham Bell(communication), Thomas Edison(electricity), and George Washington Carver(science)
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What people were remembered because of something they did during WWl in America?
Louis Armstrong(Jazz Age), Langston Hughes(Harlem Renaissance),Babe Ruth(baseball), Henry Ford(auto mobile), Charles Lindbergh(Airplane)
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What are the most important programs the New Deal created?
CCC(Civilian Conservation Corps),WPA(Works Progress Administration), TVA(Tennessee Valley Authority)
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Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
black servicemen of the U.S. Army Air Forces. They constituted the first African American flying unit in the U.S. military.
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Who were Joseph McCarthy and Nikita Khrushchev?
Nikita: First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and chairman of that country's Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964 Joseph: American politician and attorney who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957