Quiz Vocabulary
Free Market.
An economy where you "can buy or sell what you want"
Between 2 superpower Nations after WWII.
U.S. & USSR (+/- if you can define USSR)
U.S. gained independence (5 W's)
July 4th, 1776, from the British; over taxation
Cheese State, or "American Dairyland"
Wisconsin
N.A.T.O
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(100pt bonus for identifying the alignment of NATO)
sending supplies, aid, and other materials to help, also including extracting the ill children
Berlin Airlift
Mr. G's breakfast every day.
Bagel & Coffee
First topic Mr. G taught in this class
Industrial Revolution
(+/- for definition and general timeframe of event)
Benjamin Franklin's discovery via kite and key.
Electricity
Countries not in NATO or Warsaw Pact are known as.
Non-aligned; Third World; Developing Nations.
Usually newly independent
End of the Cold War
December 26th, 1991
(+100 for identifying the cause)
Only answer Mr. G does not accept in his classroom
"I do not Know"
WWI began when and why (Year & catalyst)
1914; Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Main countries of the non-aligned group during the Cold War
India & Indonesia
(+/- if you can recall what these countries did in the cold war SPECIFICALLY)
Embargo
Halt trade on a country
(+/- for what country the US embargoed in the Cold War, why, and what it led to)
Regions of Focus by the US & USSR
Latin America & Africa/SE Asia
(Bonus points for specifics: I.e., countries/reasons)
What is Mr. G's favorite area/subject/period of history?
Ancient History, Mediterranean, Greece/Egypt
End of WWII specifically for the U.S (5 W's)
what could've happened, what did happen
Operation Overlord, Atomic Bombs (Hiroshima Aug. 6, Nagasaki Aug. 9, 1945)
Which Russian mystic and advisor to the Romanovs was assassinated in 1916?
Rasputin
Marshall Plan (5 W's)
George C. Marshall's; economic plan to rebuild Western Europe; 1948
What country switched sides during the cold war and Why?
Egypt, aid for the Aswan Dam and defense against Israel (USSR), nationalized the Suez Canal, and more security (U.S.)
One of Mr. G's current favorite artist and someone he will see in Concert in May. (Hint available, for half point)
Mr. G's first day of teaching
January 16th/21st
Middle name of US President Franklin Roosevelt?
Delano