World War II
Potpourri
The Civil War
Cold War
Civil Rights Movement
100
The name of the two major alliances in WWII.
What are the Axis and the Allies?
100
The First President of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
100
The color of the Union uniforms during the civil war.
What is blue?
100
The Cold War was the term used to describe the struggle for global power between these two super powers.
Who are the United States and the U.S.S.R.(Russia)?
100
The policy that separated public facilities based on race.
What is Segregation?
200
The site where America was surprise attacked, forcing them to join the fighting of WWII.
What is Pearl Harbor?
200
The name for an official change, correction, or addition to the constitution.
What is an amendment?
200
The location where George Washington kept his Army for the winter of 1777-1778. Very near to Eastern University.
What is Valley Forge?
200
The country that launched the first satellite into space.
What is the U.S.S.R.?
200
The woman who refused to give her seat to white passengers on a bus.
Who is Rosa Parks?
300
The code name given to the Allied invasion of France after it had been taken by Germany.
What is D-Day?
300
The system of segregation used in South Africa.
What is Apartheid?
300
President during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
This wall stood between East and West Berlin and was a symbol of the Cold War for three decades.
What is the Berlin Wall?
300
A leader of the Civil Rights movement who was given the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in nonviolent demonstrations against segregation.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
400
The amount of atomic bombs the United States used during WWII.
What is two?
400
Name of the trail that stretched 2,000 miles through the Great Plains from western Missouri to the Oregon Territory.
What is the Oregon Trail?
400
This was the famous speech given by Lincoln during the Civil War.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
400
The country that the Soviet Union placed nuclear missiles in, which could have destroyed American cities in minutes.
What is Cuba?
400
Unlike MLK, this civil rights leader believed that African Americans had the right to defend themselves, using violence if necessary.
Who is Malcolm X?
500
The name of the secret program that developed the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
500
This Amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
500
These war ships were used during the Civil War and got their name from their creative use of iron.
What is an Ironclad?
500
The first man to walk on the surface of the moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
500
The man charged for the murder of MLK.
Who is James Earl Ray?