This many years passed between the bombing of Pearl Harbor and that of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
What is four (1945-1941)?
100
This international, peace-keeping organization was formed after WWII to help countries prevent future wars.
What is the UN or United Nations?
100
This event in the Pacific was the turning point for the Allies during WWII (6 letters, 2 letters, 6 letters)
What is Battle of Midway?
100
This industry was centered in New England where they would turn cotton and other raw materials into clothing.
What is the textile industry?
200
Of the 7 continents.
What is Africa?
200
Women’s voting amendment number minus the number of points in Wilson’s post-war peace plan.
What is five (19-14)?
200
This New Deal agency, abbreviated TVA, was created to help harness the water power of a river and provide much needed jobs.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
200
He invented the telephone in the late 1800s, allowing Americans to communicate more quickly than
ever before (4 letters)
Who is Bell (Alexander Graham)?
200
When goods such as butter and gasoline were strictly limited during wartime by the government, it was called this.
What is rationing?
300
Of the 7 political regions of the United States.
What is the Midwest?
300
The number of years from the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision to today.
What is 57 (2011-1954)?
300
He served as our longest serving president, during both the Great Depression and WWII.
Who is FDR or Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
300
These people produced and sold alcohol illegally during Prohibition (11 letters)
Who are bootleggers?
300
Blacks and their supporters staged this type of protest at lunch counters throughout the South where they would not leave until they were served or arrested.
What are sit-ins?
400
Of the 5 Great Lakes.
What is Erie?
400
The number of times FDR was elected multiplied by the number of states in the non-contiguous region.
What is eight (4 x 2)?
400
This white-supremacist organization, formed after the Civil War in the South, aimed at preventing African-Americans from gaining equal rights by threats and terrorist activities.
What is the KKK or Ku Klux Klan?
400
This capital of Germany was divided by a wall to keep people in the Communist east from escaping to the free, western side (6 letters)
What is Berlin?
400
During the Spanish-American War, newspapers competed for readers by using this exaggerated style of writing.
What is yellow journalism?
500
Of 20th century presidents (last names).
Who is Bush?
500
The number of current U.S. senators plus the number of the month of the D-day invasion.
What is 106 (100 + 6 [for June])?
500
This alliance of the United States and western European nations was formed to help prevent the spread of communism.
What is NATO or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
500
This historic Supreme Court case of 1954 overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896, forcing all public schools to end segregation (5 letters)
What is Brown (v. Board of Education)?
500
These were secret, illegal bars that sold alcohol during Prohibition.