Events
Concepts
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Vocab
Grab Bag
100

Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia, kicking off the start of this war...?

What is World War I

100

The young women of the 1920s that dressed in short skirts and high heels with bobbed haircuts were known as...?

What are flappers

100

This agency regulates pollution, does research, and informs the public of important news about our environment...?

What is the Environmental Protection Agency

100

Not supporting either side in a conflict is...

What is neutrality

100

The US joined World War II due to this event...?

What is the Attack on Pearl Harbor

200

The War in the Pacific (of WWII) ended when the US dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These nuclear weapons were created under this secret program...?

What is the Manhattan Project

200

America took this official policy of staying OUT of the affairs of other countries prior to joining World War II...? 

What is isolationism

200

Early radio shows were called this due to their funding coming from advertisements...?

What are soap operas

200

Glorification of armed strength and the military is...?

What is militarism

200

A coalition or pact of friendship between two or more parties is...?

What is an alliance

300

This important document was signed on 11/11/1918 at 11 o'clock and effectively (though not officially) ended WWI...?

What is an armistice

300

World War I notably used trench warfare. Warfare where neither side can win a decisive victory is...?

What is a stalemate?
300

These protests were public, peaceful, and conscientious breaches of law with the goal of changing unjust policies...?

What is nonviolent civil disobedience

300

Giving into an aggressor to avoid conflict is...?

What is appeasement

300

The "separate but equal" ruling (segregation) was ruled illegal in EDUCATION due to this Supreme Court Case...?

What is Brown v Board of Education

400

Disenfranchisement (taking away one's right to vote) and segregation (Jim Crow Laws) were made illegal due to these two pieces of legislation...?

What are the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965

400
Industrial jobs, white supremacy, disenfranchisement, and sharecropping were ___________ and __________ factors that brought African Americans to the North in the 1920s...?
What are "Push" and "Pull" Factors
400

Many people bought cars and new appliances using this system that required the buyer to make arranged payments over a specific period of time...?

What are installment plans

400

Murder done for political reasons is...?

What is assassination

400
This group was one of the most decorated units in World War II despite the fact that their friends and family were detained in internment camps back home...?

What are the Japanese men of the 442nd unit

500

The letters of MANIA stand for these FIVE concepts that started World War I...?

Militarism, Alliances, Nationalism, Imperialism, and Assassination

500

The US and other world leaders wanted Germany, Italy, and Japan to surrender in a way that had no guarantees for the surrendering party, otherwise known as...?

What is an unconditional surrender

500

These two men revolutionized the car industry. One for creating an assembly line and cheaper production and the other for developing yearly models and luxury options...

Who are Henry Ford and Alfred Sloan

500

Advertised bits of information (both true and false) distributed to get people to back a war effort are called...?

What is propaganda

500

This book by Rachel Carson exposed the effects that DDT and industry had on our environment...?

What is Silent Spring