He is the First African American to play Major League Baseball
Who is Jackie Robinson?
100
Forbidding by law of the manufacture, transportation, sale, and possession of alcohol
What is Prohibition?
100
Term given to the decade preceding World War II, where a state of severe worldwide economic hopelessness included the unemployment rate in the United States surged to about 25%.
What is "The Great Depression"?
100
This blood stained island in the Pacific was the site of a brutal and long battle between American and Japanese troops in the later phase of WWII.
What is Iwo Jima?
100
He was known as an American clergyman, activist, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
200
This US Senator accused many Americans of being Communists.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
200
The act of laying down arms
What is Disarmament?
200
The random shantytowns that developed in cities during the Great Depression
What is a "Hooverville?
200
This province of northwestern France was the landing point of Allied Forces on D-Day?
What is Normandy?
200
This October 1962 event between the US and the USSR brought the world to the brink of nuclear war
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
300
He developed vaccine for Polio.
Who is Jonas Salk?
300
The policy of granting concessions to potential enemies to maintain peace
What is appeasement?
300
This American President said “Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
300
In 1914, this prominent Austrian was assassinated in the Bosnian city of Sarajevo by a Serbian terrorist, sparking the events that led to WWI.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
300
An event in which party members/voters nominate a candidate for the next general election.
What is a primary?
400
He is the founder of McDonalds?
Who is Ray Kroc?
400
An agreement between opposing armies to suspend hostilities
What is an Armistice?
400
The day the stock market crashed - a.k.a. October 29th, 1929.
What is Black Friday?
400
The members of the "Big Three" after WWII.
Who are Josef Stalin, Winston Churchill and Harry Truman?
400
This US President’s Great Society sought the elimination of poverty and racial injustice
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
500
He became first African American player to move straight from the Negro Leagues into Major League Baseball and the first to play in the American League.
Who is Larry Doby?
500
Policy of abstaining from political / economic relations with other countries
What is isolationism?
500
He was killed by an assassin's bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. He was the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
500
Ending World War I, this agreement placed harsh punishments on Germany.
What is the "Treaty of Versailles"?
500
A person who was born during the demographic post-World War II baby boom between the years 1946 and 1964, representing nearly 20% of the American public