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The war infamous for Trench Warfare.
What is World War 1?
Bonus: In what country were most of the trenches located during WW1?
Three main allied Powers at the beginning of WW1.
100 points each
What are France, Great Britain and Russia?
Bonus: Which of the above was NOT in WW1 at the end of the war?
Archduke Franz ___________ was assassinated in the city of __________________, sparking World War ___.
3 answers worth 300 points
What are Ferdinand, Sarajevo and World War 1.
Bonus: Who else was killed that day?
The first man to fly an airplane from the United States to Europe.
Who was Charles Lindbergh?
Bonus: What tragedy did the Lindbergh suffer because of their 'celebrity' status?
The peace agreement that ended WW1.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
Bonus: What 2 notable countries were largely excluded from the peace talks?
Nickname for outgoing women in the 1920's.
Who are Flappers?
New German Warships that could go many places undetected.
What is a U-boat? (Submarine)
U.S. President at the beginning of the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
Created in the 1930's, this was a government program that put Americans to work building roads, bridges, school and cultural and art projects.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
The name of the area between the Allied and Central trenches in WW1.
What is "No Man's Land"?
The U.S. President during WW1.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
Bonus: What position did Wilson originally have at the outset of WW1?
This swept across America after the fall of the Russian Czar.
What is the Red Scare? (fear of Communism)
Bonus: What were some specific things that happened during the Red Scare? 200 points each
An illegal saloon or bar that served alcoholic beverages.
Name 2 "new" countries that started after WW1.
What are Poland, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania?
Popular African American Jazz musician of the 1920's.
Who was Louis Armstrong?
Bonus: In what city was Jazz "born"?
This weapon significantly impacted combat tactics, leading to the widespread adoption of trench warfare by making it nearly impossible to overtake a defensively positioned army.
What is the machine gun?
Three of the factors that contributed to the Great Depression.
What are:
-stock market crash of 1929.
-buying of stock on credit / borrowed money.
-Banks going bankrupt
-overproduction by farmers
-WW1 reparations
Depression era program providing cheap electricity, controlling floods, improving river navigation, and modernizing agricultural practices.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
Bonus: What river did the TVA mainly improve?
The 2 countries where most of the fighting took place in WW1?
What are France and Belguim?
The British ship that was sunk by the Germans, killing over 1000 people including over 100 Americans.
What is the Lusitania?
The reason for the Great Migration in the early 1900's?
How F. Scott Fitzgerald described the 1920's.
What is the Jazz age?
The $33 million Germany was required to repay after WW1.
What are Reparations?
Bonus: These payments led to high ___________.
Someone who illegally produced, transported, or sold alcoholic beverages.
What is a Bootlegger?
George ___________ used ___________ to help break through the German lines.
What are Patton and Tanks?
Bonus: What did Patton do on the night before his battalion's tank offensive?
The U.S. President elected during the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Depression program that often paid farmers NOT to farm.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
The 2 major geographical features that were the Eastern and Western edges of the battle lines of WW1.
What is the Atlantic Ocean and the Alps?
The German leader during WW1.
Who is Kaiser Wilhelm I?
Bonus: What things did the Germans do as the war started that help to "villify" them?
The __________ trial in Tennessee challenged the law forbidding the teaching of _____________.
What is the Scopes Trial and Evolution?
Bonus: What was the effect of this trial, even though John Scopes lost the case?
The name and number of the Amendment that caused America to go "dry".
What is Prohibition and the 18th Amendment?
The "secret weapon" sent by the Germans to Russia during WW1.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
Bonus: Who does Lenin then team up with?
Rose to the rank of Brigadier General in WW1.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
Bonus: The military college he graduated from and then later became the leader of?
The nickname of Shanty towns, makeshift neighborhoods, during the Great Depression.
What are Hoovervilles?
created to address the Great Depression, insures bank deposits, aiming to restore public confidence in the banking system and prevent bank runs.
What is the Federal Depository Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
The (approximate) distance of the "Western Front".
What is 475 miles long?
At least 2 of the Central powers during WW1.
What are Germany, Austria Hungary and
Women's suffrage Amendment. What it is and what did it do?
What is the 19th Amendment and the right to vote for women?
Many people used this to buy many of the new household appliances that made life easier.
What is Credit / Borrowed Money?
The type of gasses used by both sides during WW1. Who used with type of gas?
What is the Central powers used Chlorine Gas and Allied powers used Mustard gas?
A government corporation started during the Great Depression to minimize the number of Americans who would lose their homes in foreclosure.
What is the Home Owner's Loan Corporation (HOLC)?
The (approximates) miles of trenches dug during WW1.
What is approximately 35,000 miles?
The ______________ letter proposed an alliance between _______________ and _____________ if the U.S. entered WW1.
What are Zimmerman, Mexico and Germany?
Repeal of Prohibition.
What is the 21st Amendment?
The place that became the center of black culture, thought and art in the 1920's. (City and State)
What is Harlem, NY?
The group of people that overthrow the Russian Czar during WW1.
Who are the Bolsheviks?
The overall name of the program implemented during the 1930's to help the U.S. with the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
Bonus: Which President brought us the New Deal?