The global conflict in which the majority of countries took a side either for democracy or the totalitarian state.
What was World War II?
100
1946-1960
What was the Cold War?
100
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
What is NASA?
100
The most decorated soldier of World War II from Hunt County, Texas.
Who was Audie Murphy?
100
Iconic image of American women first published in the Saturday Evening Post.
What was Rosie the Riveter?
200
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin
Who were the leaders of the Allies?
200
A Soviet made satellite launched in 1957.
What was Sputnik?
200
This area of North Texas is home to numerous companies that specialize in aircraft for civilian and military use.
What is the Dallas - Fort Worth metroplex?
200
First African-American woman to receive an international pilot's license.
Who was Bessie Coleman?
200
Saved to make explosives
What was kitchen fat?
300
Complete the quote by saying the missing piece of the quote.
"Yesterday, December 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of _____."
by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Japan
300
Type of drill practiced by school children across the United States during the Cold War.
What was duck and cover?
300
This country launched a satellite and then a dog into Earth's orbit in the year 1957.
What was the Soviet Union?
300
a system of connected highways that cross state lines created by the Interstate Highway Act of 1956
What is the interstate highway system?
300
Civil War : cattle drives :: World War II : _____________
What was synthetic rubber
400
1.5 million
What was the number of soldiers trained at military bases in Texas during World War II?
400
Everyone feared these weapons, because both sides had an ample supply to destroy our planet.
What were nuclear weapons?
400
This state is ahead of Texas in the total output of manufactured aircraft as well as population.
What is California?
400
Awarded the Navy Cross for his heroic actions during the Battle of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Who was Doris Miller?
400
allow each person to have only a fixed amount of (a particular commodity)
synonyms: control, limit, restrict, conserve
What is ration?
500
Eisenhower, Hobby, Nimitz, and Rayburn
Who were 4 Texans with leadership positions during World War II?
500
Final score of the hockey game between USA and USSR during the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York.
What was 4 - 3?
500
The growth of the aerospace industry contributed to the urbanization of this area of the state of Texas.
What was southeast Texas?
500
WAAC
What was the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps?
500
Texas was home to these 4 types of military installations during World War II.
What was army airfields, army forts, naval bases, and prisoner of war camps?