Orders from the President!
Important Events
They were on what side?!
Black Figures
Important Terms
100

Who can give an Executive Order?

Who is the President?

100

What started World War 1? (Tell me a name)

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Serbian Nationalist 

100

What were the two powers during World War 2?

What is Axis and Allie powers?

100

Who was the President during World War 2?

Who is FDR (Franklin D. Roosevelt)?

100

What is the Definition of Isolationism?

A policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interest of other groups/countries

200

What is an Executive Order?

What are Presidential instructions that direct executive branch agencies and staff to start or stop specific actions?

200

What started World War 2?

What is Germany Invading Poland?

200

What side was Japan and Italy on during World War 2?

What is Axis Power?

200

What were the name of the all-Black squadron of pilots during World War 2?

Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?

200

What is the Red Summer of 1919?

A period of intense racial violence and massacre in the United States toward African Americans. 

300

What is executive Order 11246?

Prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, to organization's receiving federal funding

300

What is the name of the event of the financial downturn which resulted in a long and severe recession in an economy or market?

What is the Great Depression?

300

The United States, Soviet Union, Great Britian, and France were what powers?

What is the Allied Powers?

300

Who was the Black Cabinet Member that Influenced FDR to create Executive Order 8802?

Who is A. Philip Randolph?

300

Give me the word that relates to this definition:

"The policy or act of extending a country's power into other territories (or gaining control over another country's politics or economics)

What is Imperialism?

400

What is Executive Order 9981?

This order ended segregated units, ensuring that all people in the armed forces are treated with equality that was enforce by a presidential committee.

400

On June 28th 1919, the peace treaty that formally ended World War 1 and imposed harsh terms on Germany (including territorial losses, demilitarization, and reparation payments) was called?

What is the Treaty of Versailles?

400

What were the two sides during World War 1?

What are the Allied and Central Powers?

400

What is the name of the first all black infantry to be sent overseas to fight overseas in World War 1

What is Infantry 369?

400

What is the name of the policy that contributed to the Holocaust?

What is the Final Solution?

500

What is Executive Order 8802?

Prohibited discrimination in the defense industry, enforcing businesses in the defense industry to include a clause in contracts prohibiting discrimination
500

The United States waited years to enter both wars. What was the reason that the U.S entered WW1?

What was the reason that the U.S entered WW2?

WW1: Zimmerman Telegram 

WW2: Attack on Pearl Harbor

500

DOUBLE POINTS:

Name one Country that was on the Allied Side and another that was on the Central Side.

Allied:France, Great Britain, Russia, and United States 

Central:Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire , Bulgaria 

500

Who worked with Eleanor Roosevelt and the Black Cabinet to lobby administration to get equal opportunites for African Americans, especially African American Women?

Who is Mary Mcleod Bethune?

500

Name the Term: the principal or advocacy of the political union of all the indigenous inhabitants of Africa


What is Pan-Africanism?