World War I
HE was President of the United States, during WWI...
Who is "Woodrow Wilson"?
THIS player was traded by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees, on Jan. 5, 1920. THE TRADE came to be known as the beginning of "The Curse of the Bambino" by Red Sox fans, because the Red Sox would not win another World Series championship until 2004 (after winning 4 championships between the years 1903 & 1918)...
Who is "Babe Ruth"? (George Hermann Ruth)
DAILY DOUBLE... On Monday, October 28, 1929, the world was plunged into "The Great _______," when the New York Stock Exchange crashed. Thousands of companies went bankrupt, and the crash resulted in terrible poverty & unemployment across the globe...
What is "DEPRESSION"?
HE was President of the United States, during WWII...
Who is "Franklin D. Roosevelt"?
In 1903, THESE 2 brothers changed transportation forever, when they proved that powered flight was possible by "taking off" from Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina...
Who are the "Wright" brothers?
WWI was widely known as THIS...
A) The Big War B) The Great War C) The Ginormous War D) The Mega War
What is "B) The Great War"?
THIS New York Yankees slugger became known for the disease (ALS) which he eventually died from, in 1941...
Who is "Lou Gehrig"?
Immediately following the stock market crash of 1929, THIS leader said: "Any lack of confidence in the economic future of the United States is foolish."
Who is "Herbert Hoover"?
DAILY DOUBLE... HE served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe during WWII. HE would go on to become our 34th president (1953-1961)...
Who is "Dwight D. Eisenhower"?
THIS pandemic killed more people in 1918, than the world war did...
What is "the Spanish Flu"? (50 million people died worldwide)
DAILY DOUBLE... THIS African-American track & field athlete, won 4 gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics...
Who is "Jesse Owens"?
President Roosevelt began HIS "Fireside _____" in 1933. These were radio addresses, meant to inform & comfort the country during the dark days of the Depression...
What are "Chats"?
THIS was dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima & Nagasaki in August of 1945. THIS event ended the war with Japan...
What is "Atomic Bomb"?
DAILY DOUBLE... Under the Volstead Act, the sale of alcohol was banned in the United States from 1920 to 1933. THIS ban was called ____________.
What is "PROHIBITION"?
Who is "the Archduke Franz Ferdinand" of Austria-Hungary? (His wife Sophie, was also killed)
Who is "Joe Louis"?
HE was elected President of the United States in 1932, and introduced a policy -- The New Deal -- to solve the problems caused by the Great Depression...
Who is "Franklin D. Roosevelt"?
THESE were 2 of the 4 countries which carved up & controlled the city of Berlin (Germany) following WWII...
What are "England" "France" "United States" "Russia"??? (England, France, & the US controlled W. Berlin; Russia controlled E. Berlin)
From 1917 to 1922, Russia experienced civil war between the "red" Communists and the "white" opposition forces. The victorious Communist leader Vladimir Lenin united most of the territory which was once ruled by the czar to form THIS country...
What is "The Soviet Union"?
The United States entered WWI in THIS year:
A) 1914 B) 1915 C) 1916 D) 1917
What is "D) 1917"? (the War lasted from 1914 to 1918)
There were 5 players named to the Baseball Hall of Fame, in its first year, 1936. Two of the five were:
Who are "Ty Cobb" "Babe Ruth" "Christy Mathewson" "Walter Johnson" "Honus Wagner" ?????
HE was elected President of the United States in 1928, and is blamed for not realizing how big The Great Depression was. He thought the economy would fix itself, and he failed to act. HE was voted out of office in 1932...
Who is "Herbert Hoover"?
THIS country declared war on Germany, after the Germans invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939...
What is "England"?
THIS international body was founded in 1919 to try and solve the disputes between countries. Though Pres. Woodrow Wilson had proposed the original idea, the United States decided not to join. The U.S. lack of involvement in the organization, was one of the main reasons it failed...
What is "The League of Nations"?