Post-Civil War
The name given to the era that following the conclusion of the United States Civil War
What is reconstruction?
I was the first president of the 20th century to be killed by an assassins bullet.
Who is William McKinley?
Leader of the Free French resistance during World War II.
Whos is Charles deGaulle?
In this year, the Archduke of Austria was shot and killed sparking The Great War.
What is 1914?
Had he followed his original desire and joined this profession, the world would have avoided Adolf Hitler's reign of terror.
What is artistry ... or what is art school?
The organization created to help ex-slaves find housing, employment, ad secure protection from those individuals looking to harm them.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This British ship was sunk in 1915 while carrying 123 Americans.
What is the Lusitania?
a disease that President Franklin Roosevelt lived with for most of his life..... it didn't kill him, he learned to live with it and make the needed adjustments.
What is Polio?
The city in which the assassination of Franz Ferdinand occurred.
What is Sarajevo?
The first name of the Japanese Prime Minister who would be sentenced to death following the completion of World War II?
Who is Hideki?
Though Andrew Johnson would be the first, this is the number of times a United States President has been impeached.
What is four (4)?
I am a vocabulary terms associated with Theodore Roosevelt that refers to the protection of lands and resources for future generations.
What is conservation?
Nickname of the ship where Gen. Douglas MacArthur accepted the surrender of Japan following World War II.
What is "Big Mo"?
DAILY DOUBLE QUESTION
The date of Armistice Day ...officially ending World War I (the moth, the day, and the year).
What is Nov 11, 1918?
A vocab term used that referred to the US moving from one location to the next within the Pacific in hopes of liberating the land from the Japanese captors.
What is island hopping?
The name of the military academy where Ulysess S. Grant was trained; he gained the skills needed to not only be a general but one day a post-Civil War president.
What is West Point?
A way of speaking to others .... when you are also willing to carry a big stick; so diplomatic.
What is speak softly?
DAILY DOUBLE QUESTION
Collection of African American pilots who heroically braved the skies over North Africa and Italy helping to rid the world of the totalitarian governments of Hitler and Mussolini.
Who are The Tuskegee Airmen?
Created due to World World I's great destruction, but failed to prevent World War II from occurring.
What is The League of Nations?
The name of the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan?
What is The Enola Gay?
The first of the former confederate states to be readmitted to the Union following the end of the United States Civil War. President Johnson was likely happy to see this occur.
What is Tennessee?
The connection between Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt ... including Eleanor.
What are cousins and Eleanor's husband and uncle?
An individual who lived in the south during the years following the United States Civil War and assisted the Northerners ..... and were obviously strongly disliked by the southerners who considered them to be traitors.
What is a scalawag?
The peace treaty ending World War 1 was held at the Palace of Versailles which was once owned by this French monarch ...prior to him losing his head.
Who is Louis XVI?
Having died briefly before her owner's decision to end his own life, this German dog became one of the most famous animals of the World War II generation.
Who is Blondie?