WWII
Life During WWII
Life during the 1950s
Foreign Policy Post WWII
Civil Rights
100

Leader of Germany for World War II.

Who is Adolf Hitler?

100

When people are limited in the amount of something they can buy; usually during a large scale war.

What is rationing?

100

President in the 1950s with the campaign slogan, "I like Ike."

Who is President Dwight D. Eisenhower?

100

The United States was concerned about the spread of this after World War II.

What is Communism?

100

Laws that were in place in the South after Reconstruction through the 1950s that allowed people to be separated by the color of their skin.

What are Jim Crow Laws?

200

Happened December 7, 1941; Japanese attack on the United States

What is Pearl Harbor?

200

Misleading and bias media that tries to motivate or sway people to do something.

What is propaganda?

200

The 1950s saw the rise of this type of music.

What is Rock and Roll?

200

This war was fought from 1950 until 1953. The area today is still divided between the North and the South.

What is the Korean War?

200

This president issued an executive order to desegregation of the armed forces in the late 1940s.

Who is President Harry Truman?

300

Iwo Jima, D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, and Midway are all examples of what during WWII.

What is battles during World War II?

300

Government sells these to help finance the war effort.

What are war bonds?

300

Jobs like accountant, salesman, lawyer would be examples of this.

What is White collar jobs?

300
The U-2 incident is an example of this foreign policy.

What is Brinkmanship?

300

This Supreme Court Case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson.

What is Brown v. Board of Education?

400

Jumping from one island to another; focusing on taking the ones less protected and avoiding the ones heavily fortified was a strategy used against Japan.

What is island hopping?

400

Character used to represent the toughness of women during World War II especially representing jobs they worked in.

Who is Rosie the Riveter?

400

G.I. Bill had an effect on the growth and development of these post World War II.

What are Suburbs?

400

Describe the change in Foreign Policy Pre-World War II and After World War II.

What is the country went from isolationism to active and intervening in world matters?
400

This was the president that ordered federal troops to escort the Little Rock Nine into school in the 1950s. 

Who was President Dwight D. Eisenhower?

500

Group responsible for creating secretive communication during World War II for the U.S. Marine Corps.

Who is the Navajo Code Talkers? 

500

Camps set up in the United States to watch over a group of Americans from a specific ethnic group. (name of camps and group targeted)

What are Interment Camps and Japanese-Americans?

500

The lesson that can be taken away from the hunt for Communist in the 1950s.

What is mass fear or hysteria can cause us to trample on rights of others? Answers may vary

500

NATO is an example of this and stands for. (Both needed for correct answer)

An alliance (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

500

This was the lawyer that argued on behalf the Brown family in front of the U.S. Supreme Court case, Plessy v. Ferguson. 

Who is Thurgood Marshall?