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100
Famous antislavery book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
100
U.S. president when the Louisiana Territory was added to the United States.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
Palace where the treaty to end World War I was signed.
What is Versailles?
100
Period of extreme economic collapse.
What was the Great Depression?
100
First nation to fall to the Blitzkrieg.
What was Poland?
200
Southern ironclad that fought the Monitor.
What was the Merrimac (or Virginia)?
200
Early explorer's name for the Great Plains.
What is the Great American Desert?
200
Country that withdrew from the war because of an internal revolution.
What is Russia?
200
Constitutional amendment that prohibited the sale of alcoholic beverages in the US.
What is the 18th Amendment?
200
Nation that fell to Germany in June 1940.
What was France?
300
Site of the first major battle of the Civil War.
What was Bull Run?
300
Territory that was added to the United States in 1819 after Andrew Jackson had taken troops there to control the Indians.
What is Florida?
300
German foreign minister who sent a note to the Mexicans attempting to persuade them to invade the United States.
Who was Alfred Zimmerman?
300
World peace organization the United States did not join.
What was the League of Nations?
300
Man who led the invasion of North Africa.
Who was Dwight Eisenhower?
400
Battle that stopped the Confederate invasion of Pennsylvania.
What is Gettysburg?
400
Purchase from Mexico that completed the area of the 48 states.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
400
Nation carved out of Austria-Hungary after the war.
What is Czechoslovakia?
400
New Deal program that built dams to control flooding and electrical power.
What was the Tennessee Valley Authority?
400
Two islands that became important as air bases in the American drive toward Japan.
What were Iwo Jima and Okinawa?
500
Area that refused to secede with Virginia and eventually became a separate state.
What was West Virginia?
500
Dictator of Mexico during the Texans' war with Mexico.
Who was Santa Anna?
500
Assassin of Archduke Ferdinand.
Who was Gavrilo Princip?
500
Woodrow Wilson's phrase describing the effects of World War I on the world.
What is "make it safe for democracy"?
500
With this device, British pilots could spot German planes at night.
What is radar?