This physicist was director of Project Y (the Manhattan Project) and helped construct the atomic bomb.
Who was J. Robert Oppenheimer?
100
This event occurred in April 1942: the Japanese captured 10,000 American and 60,000 Filipino troops and forced them to walk 65 miles to a prison camp where they stayed for three years.
What was the Bataan Death March?
100
Variety; it creates cultural depth and richness.
What is diversity?
100
Where the world's first atomic bomb was created and later tested. Please give the town name and also the name of the geographic feature where it is located.
What is Los Alamos, located on the Pajarito Plateau?
100
This was the year that President Roosevelt received a letter from Albert Einstein informing him that scientists in Germany were making an atomic bomb.
What is 1939?
200
This Hispanic man tried to help Spanish and Mexican land grant heirs in the 1960s. When the movement became violent, he was arrested.
Who is Reies Lopez Tijerina?
200
This act passed in 1934 reduced the numbers of livestock grazing on Indian land. As a result, the government killed many sheep and goats.
What is the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934?
200
A temporary farmworker from Mexico.
What is a bracero?
200
A sacred site of Taos Pueblo Indians which was made part of Carson National Forest in 1906 and became a recreational site for tourists. It was returned to the Pueblo in 1970 through a bill signed by President Richard Nixon.
What is Blue Lake?
200
On this date, the first atomic bomb was tested at the Trinity Site in southern New Mexico.
What is July 16, 1945?
300
This reformer, the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, made sure that the New Deal benefited Native Americans.
Who is John Collier?
300
The day that the European Theater of World War II drew to a close.
What is V-E Day?
300
Different, unfair treatment of people often because of their racial or ethnic background.
What is discrimination?
300
A neighborhood in this city had a policy that read: "No person of African or Oriental descent shall use or occupy any building or use any building or lot for residential purposes."
What is Albuquerque?
300
The year the state legislature passed a law that allowed for segregated schools in New Mexico.
What was 1925?
400
These two people organized the United Farm Workers Union.
Who are Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta?
400
From 1968 - 1975, millions of Americans refused to buy this product in a boycott because of unfair treatment of farmworkers.
What is California grapes?
400
An organization of workers who join together to achieve common goals, such as better pay or safer working conditions.
What is a labor union?
400
Where, in 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs in Japan?
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
400
The year the Cold War ended.
What is 1991?
500
A powerful Mexican revolutionary general who with 500 soldiers raided the small New Mexican border town of Columbus. Also, the U.S. general who pursued him.
Who are General Francisco "Pancho" Villa and General John "Blackjack" Pershing?
500
In 1918, before World War I had ended, this new deadly enemy struck New Mexicans and people around the world?
What is the Spanish Flu Epidemic?
500
A period when the economy suffers from a drastic slowdown in business activity, mass unemployment, and a weak stock market.
What is an economic depression?
500
The biggest military camp in our state where thousands of men from the United States trained to become soldiers during World War I. It was located near Deming.
What is Camp Cody?
500
After the Zimmerman note was discovered, the United States declared war on Germany and officially became involved in World War I.