1920s/1930s
Villages of makeshift shelters popular among migrant workers and why they existed. In other words, why would people choose to live there?
Mickey Mouse's first cartoon.
What was Steamboat Willie?
This Communist International group met first in Moscow to promote communist revolutions worldwide. Name the group and the leader who inspired it.
What is the Comintern and who is Vladimir Lenin?
He was a prominent leader of his country's National Congress who earned a law degree in London. He used boycotts, noncooperation, and hunger strikes to protest against British rule. (Name and country)
Who was Gandhi in India?
Two missionaries to China who had their stories turned into very successful Hollywood Movies. (Name them and the movies.)
Who was Gladys Aylward and "The Inn of Sixth Happiness" and Eric Liddell and "Chariots of Fire"?
This president made this as a promise to turn the economy around with government programs. He used flyers, buttons, posters, speeches, and murals to promote "relief, recovery, and reform." This was the beginning of governmental beaurocracy. Name the President and what he proposed.
Who is Franlin Delano Roosevelt and what is the New Deal?
The fight to restore unity to Italy and who was the guy behind it.
What is the Risorgimento and who is Guiseppe Garibaldi?
During these two tragedies in these 2 countries, tenant farmers and their families starved due to government policies even though they lived in a land full of food.
What was the Potato Blight (or Potato Famine) in Ireland and the Holodomor in Ukraine?
This leaders goals: a strong, united country that would reclaim lost territories (the Irredenta), extreme national pride, militarism, all-powrful government to control the country and affairs, and strict censorship of any political oppostion. He was a soldier/politician who became Prime Minister (in reality a dictator) even though the country all ready had a king. He "made the trains run on time."
Who was Benito Mussolini?
She was known as the "Lady on a Donkey" and the "Mother of the Nile."
Who was Lillian Thrasher?
The famous novel The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck is based on this American experience.
What is the Dust Bowl?
The game of chess originated here.
What is India?
The new "legitimate" state in Manchuria and it's leader and the country that was behind it all. (In reality, it was a puppet state.)
Where was Manchukuo led by former Emperor Puyi and what was Japan?
This former peasant chose to change his name after he became a revolutionary. He was an outlaw, originally banished 7 times, who became one of the deadliest dictators. He wanted to modernize his country, make it a great industrial nation equal to Germany or the USA, and prove socialism was superior to capitalism.
Who was Josef Stalin?
He said, "He was searching for me before I sought Him. I was praying 'If there be a God, reveal thyself...' But when he came there was no anger in his face, even though I had burnt the Bible 3 days before."
Who was Sundar Singh?
At the end of WWI who were the big 4 and where were they from?
Who are Great Britain's Prime minister David Lloyd George, Italy's Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando, France's Prime Minister Georges Cemenceau, and the President of the USA Woodrow Wilson?
This revolutionary group used the public outrage over a Railroad protest and killings to inspire general revolt. Sun Yat-Sen was the leader of this group whose goal it was to eject the Manchu Qings and restore the Han majority Rule.
What was the Tongmenghui?
This was signed by Italy and Britain. Italy agreed to declare war on Austria-Hungary and Germany in return for control of territories they had lost. After the war, it got ignored and Italy didn't get what they wanted anyway.
What was the London Pact?
This leader's goals included re-educating peasants and building a new communist nation. He led an epic retreat to escape the backlash against the communists. He then used this long march as a propaganda and strategic victory to promote communism.
Who was Mao Tse-Tung?
This olympic gold medalist became the first woman to swim 35 miles across the English Channel in 14.5 hours--2 hours faster than the men's record of the time.
Who was Gertrude Ederle?
"Confetti" replacement used during celebrations for popular heroes in NYC at this site. Name the celebration, the site in lower Manhatten (nickname) and at least one "hero" who was celebrated this way.
What is a ticker tape parade at the Canyon of Heroes, and who is Charles Lindbergh or Amelia Earheart?
What was the 3 fold purpose of the League of Nations and whose idea it was.
Who was Woodrow Wilson and 1. to issue warnings and resolutions to rogue nations threatening war 2. to impose economic sanctions on rogue nations, and 3. to combine member nation's arimies and use military force against rogue nations.
Where did Yugoslavia come from and where did it go?
What is a combination of all of the slavic countries into one created as a result of Woodrow Wilson's 14 points--mainly created to be a pan-slavic state to unite all the slavic people and give them self-rule. But the people just kept their own traditional nationilties and faith instead of embracing the new "Yugoslavia" one so it broke up in 1991 when the USSR broke up.
This Chinese leader was a strong nationalist who proposed 3 Principles of People to unite and guide his country. Name him and the 3 principles he proposed (and tell what they mean).
Who is Sun Yat-Sen and what are Minzu (Chinese nationalism), Minquan (goverment with democratically elected leaders) and Minsheng (Chinese socialism)?
He said, "We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen."
Hint: USA guy
Who was Calvin Coolidge?