WWI, Roaring 20s, Great Depression
The position of the US at the start of WWI.
What is neutrality?
The name for Germany, Italy, and Japan during the war.
Person who refused to give up a seat on the bus, sparking the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Rosa Parks?
If one country converts to communism, neighboring countries will follow and convert to communism as well.
What is the Domino Theory?
What is the Wharton High School mascot
What is a Tiger?
The theme that opposed a lot of changes in the 1920s based on religious beliefs.
What is fundamentalism?
The "date that will live in infamy".
What is December 7th, 1941?
The social protest of the public transit system in order to fight racial segregation.
What is the Montgomery bus boycott?
Confrontation between the US and USSR over ballistic missiles in Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This is a tax on imported items-- sometimes used to raise money for the government but more often used to protect local industries.
What is a tariff?
The economic behavior of the 20s that led to the Great Depression.
What is consumerism?
Name of memoir written about Japanese internment.
What is "Farewell to Manzanar"?
Speech given by Martin Luther King Jr. during the 'March on Washington'.
What is the 'I have a dream speech'?
Stopping the spread of Communism, but not eliminating it from already communist countries.
What is Containment?
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
(Monty Python Holy Grail reference)
African or European?
The name of the date that marks the start of the Great Depression.
What is "Black Tuesday"?
A diplomatic policy of making political, material, or territorial concessions to an aggressive power in order to avoid conflict
What is appeasement?
Supreme Court case that desegregated schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
A person who illegally avoids joining the armed forces.
Who are draft dodgers?
When writing a research paper, what do you do with other people's ideas?
What is cite?
The name of the programs FDR started during the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
Mass murder and rape of Chinese civilians by Japanese soldiers during WWII.
What is the Rape of Nanking (Nanjing)?
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
Phrase coined by Winston Churchill labeling the divide between East and Western Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
How does our School Song begin?
What is "True to thee Dear Wharton"