Heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire who was assassinated in the Balkans, setting off World War I.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
100
Decade of Prohibition; known as "Roaring" because of the prosperity, illegal drinking and loosening of traditional morals.
What are the 1920s?
100
War in which the US began by defending the rights of those in Cuba and the Philippines, but ended by claiming Cuba and the Philippines for itself.
What is the Spanish-American War?
100
Attempt to improve the genetic pool of a country; widely believed in and practiced in the West prior to World War II
What is eugenics?
100
Name Winston Churchill gave to the division between free and communist countries in Europe after World War II
What is the Iron Curtain?
200
US Senator who persecuted suspected Communists in the 1950s; he basically ruled Washington DC until he went too far and started going after Eisenhower's soldiers.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
200
Year the stock market crashed, triggering the Great Depression
What is 1929?
200
Name given to the flaring of anti-communist sentiment in America right after Russia became communist during World War I; it resulted in the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti.
What is the Red Scare?
200
Ineffective precursor to the United Nations; put in place after World War I but unable to prevent World War II
What is the League of Nations?
200
Inflammatory newspaper writing around the turn of the century that is sometimes blamed for starting the Spanish-American War
What is yellow journalism?
300
Name given to the anti-war actress who visited North Vietnam during the Vietnam War and claimed US prisoners of war were treated well.
Who is Hanoi Jane?
300
Years of World War II
What is 1939-1945?
300
Name given to the German invasion and brutal treatment of neutral Belgium during World War I; led to anti-German sentiment in the US.
What is the Rape of Belgium?
300
Telegram from Germany to Mexico urging Mexico to attack the US; led the US to declare war on Germany during World War I
What is the Zimmerman Note?
300
US policy to combat communism after World War II; led us to fight small wars all around the globe
What is containment?
400
Name given to the first black students to attend Little Rock High School; their presence caused riots and led to Arkansas school shutting down for a year.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
400
Years of World War I
What is 1914-1918?
400
Flowering of black literature, music and art in New York in the 1920s
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
400
Name given to the early period of the New Deal, in which FDR passed a wide range of laws, known as Alphabet Soup
What is the Hundred Days?
400
Committee in Congress that targeted suspected communists in the 1950s, especially those in Hollywood
What is HUAC?
500
Author of The Feminine Mystique, a book credited with sparking the feminist movement in the 1960s and 1970s
Who is Betty Friedan?
500
Decade of Reaganomics, based on supply-side economics: if you cut taxes, people will have more money to spend, which will stimulate the economy and everyone will be better off.
What are the 1980s?
500
Trial in 1925 in which William Jennings Bryan tried to defend creationism against evolution; he failed spectacularly and historians see it as the end of strong Christian influence in America.
What is the Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial?
500
Alliance between England, France and Russia that dragged all three into World War I; the system of alliances is blamed for turning a small conflict into world war
What is the Triple Entente?
500
Treaty that ended World War I; the war guilt clause and massive reparations destroyed Germany and made the way for the rise of Hitler.