Easy

1
Easy

• What country was most harshly punished by the
  Treaty of Versailles?
• Germany

2
Medium

• Which side wanted the U.S. to join the League of
  Nations, the American senate or the president?
  And, which side won (did we join?)
• President we did not join (senate won)

3
Hard

• Name the central reason the senate disliked the
  idea of the League of Nations and then tell
  whether the opponents of the League were mostly
  from the Democratic or Republican party.
• took away their war declaring power (or- got them
  into foreign entanglements- U.S. was returning
  to isolationism) Republicans

4
Easy

• In the first election held after WWI, the
  Republicans won, mainly because most Americans
  believed their promise to return America to
  _________ (one word answer)
• Normalcy

5
Medium

• In the 1920s, the U.S. became increasingly
  isolationist. What impact did this have on the
  following three things tariffs (up or down?),
  immigration to U.S. (up or down?), and size of
  the U.S. navy (up or down?)
• Tariffs up, immigration and navy down

6
Hard

• The first Red Scare occurred in America in the
  1920s. It was most directly a reaction to an
  event that started in this year _____ and in this
  country _____.
• 1917 Russia/Soviet Union

7
Easy

• Communism and Socialism are closely related.
  Which is the more extreme (radical) ideology?
• Communism

8
Medium

• What is the vocabulary term for people who
  believe in no government of any kind?
• Anarchists

9
Hard

• What were the Palmer Raids and what do they
  demonstrate about the 1920s? (in other words, why
  do we still study them?)
• U.S. government raids into American homes in
  search of subversives in violation of basic
  civil rights there was fear of subversives (part
  of Red Scare) or in times of crisis, rights are
  restricted

10
Easy

• If I told you that in the 1920s there was a rise
  of Nativism in the U.S., that would also mean
  that membership in the KKK during the 20s was
  probably __________ (increasing? decreasing?)
• increasing

11
Medium

• Many liberals at the Sacco and Venzetti trial of
  the 1920s believe that the two had been arrested
  only because
• They were (Italian) immigrants.

12
Hard

• Three groups were either founded or existed in
  the 1920s to protect American Civil Rights. One
  focused on protecting American rights in the
  courtroom, one focused on African American
  Rights, and one focused on rights for American
  Jews. For the point, tell me two of the three
  (and match them up with their focus).
• ACLU (courtroom) NAACP (African American) ADL
  (Jewish)

13
Easy

• In the 1920s, the U.S. government was generally
  ________________ (harsh/ lenient) towards
  striking workers.
• Harsh

14
Medium

• What was Marcus Garveys main claim to fame
  (1920s)?
• Back to Africa Movement

15
Hard

• Consumerism boomed in the 1920s, partially
  because of an increased U.S. use of the following
  payment system _______________
• Buying on Credit

16
Easy

• In general, did presidents in the 1920s think
  that the government should have a large or small
  role in the American economy?
• Small

17
Medium

• Which of the following were not presidents in the
  1920s Coolidge, Harding, Hoover, FDR, JFK?
  (Choose all that apply).
• FDR and JFK

18
Hard

• Starting with the last years of WWI, put the
  following presidents in chronological order FDR,
  Coolidge, Hoover, Wilson, Harding, Truman.
• Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, FDR, Truman

19
Easy

• What 1920s vocab term is represented by this
  picture?
• Flappers

20
Medium

• What sub-section of the American population was
  especially important in pushing for prohibition?
• Women

21
Hard

• Which amendments to the constitution brought
  Prohibition and the Womens Vote? Hint they are
  sequential.
• 18th and 19th

22
Easy

• Which of the following is/are not true about
  Prohibition?
• Drinking dropped drastically in the U.S.
• Organized crime rose in the United States
• Liquor was often served illegally in speakeasies
• Drinking did not fall.

23
Medium

• In what city did black Americans experience an
  explosion of culture during the 1920s?
• Harlem

24
Hard

• The laws passed in the U.S. during World War I
  that restricted American civil rights during the
  war were called _____________
• The Alien and Sedition Acts

25
Easy

• The new type of purchasing stock in the 1920s,
  known as Buying on Margin, was eventually
  disastrous for the U.S. economy. What is Buying
  on Margin?
• Buying stock with borrowed money.

26
Medium

• The agriculture disaster that added to the
  general misery of the Great Depression was so bad
  in this state, that all landless farmers were
  increasingly known by its name.
• Oklahoma (Okies)

27
Hard

• On what day of the week and in what year did the
  U.S. stock market suffer its greatest decline on
  record?
• Tuesday (Black Tuesday) 1929

28
Easy

• Because of the devastating poverty of the Great
  Depression, houses made of abandoned wood and
  cardboard were made. What nickname was applied
  to them? Hint it relates to the president at the
  time.
• Hoovervilles

29
Medium

• In this map of the election in 1932, does the red
  represent states the Republican candidate won or
  states the Democratic candidate won?

30
Hard

• The New Deal set up FDIC, the SEC, Infrastructure
  projects, and Social Security. Give a basic
  definition of each.
• FDIC- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation-
  protects American bank deposits SEC- Securities
  and Exchange Commission watches over financial
  sector (stock market), Infrastructure roads,
  bridges, hospitals, etc. (internal structure)
  Social Security- gov. help for the poor and
  elderly

31
Easy

• Whose government was more closely involved in the
  American economy Hoovers or FDRs?
• FDRs

32
Medium

• This image would best be connected to a unit of
  the American military known as the ______________
• Tuskegee Airmen

33
Hard

• During World War II, the U.S. Federal Government
  changed the income tax to a withholdings
  system. What does this mean and why did the gov
  do it?
• Withholdings keeping money from income rather
  than collecting it at the end of the year better
  way to ensure the gov gets its money.

34
Easy

• Overall, WWII
• a) made the Great Depression Worse
• b) helped end the Great Depression
• b

35
Medium

• What were the two parts of the Double V campaign?
• Fighting in WWII
• Fighting against discrimination

36
Hard

• De facto segregation is one kind- what is the
  other? Use the fancy vocab term and define it.
• De jure segregation- legal separation of the races

37
Easy

• There was a great migration of African-Americans
  in both the 1st and 2nd World Wars. They went in
  two of the compasses four directions. Which two?
  
• North and West

38
Medium

• What court case first legalized the separate but
  equal aspect of American segregation practices?
• Plessy v Ferguson

39
Hard

• American womens increasing participation in the
  labor force during WWII was symbolized by an
  imaginary factory working woman named __________
  the __________
• Rosie the Riveter

40
Easy

• American women during WWII felt that they were
  required to work a double shift. What does this
  mean?
• Jobs in the factory and taking care of the home.

41
Medium

• What was the Purple Heart Battalion?
• Japanese-American Soldiers in WWII highly
  decorated for bravery

42
Hard

• What is the name of the Supreme Court Case that
  was a challenge to Executive Order 9066?
• Korematsu v United States

43
Easy

• MacArthur was the most famous American general on
  the Pacific Front in WWII. Who was his European
  Front counterpart?
• Eisenhower

44
Medium

• What is the name of the battle that was the
  Nazis last gasp on the Western Front?
• Battle of the Bulge

45
Hard

• Give me the name of the conference at the end of
  WWII during which the decision was made to divide
  Germany into four pieces controlled by the
  victorious allies.
• Yalta

46
Easy

• Why were American codes so hard for the Japanese
  to break during WWII?
• Navajo Code Talkers

47
Medium

• W
• D

48
Hard

• In a sense, Japan used Kamikaze tactics on land
  as well as with planes. Name the locations of the
  two most famous Kamikaze land defenses of the
  Japanese at the end of World War II.
• Iwo Jima, Okinawa

49
Easy

• What was the name of the top secret American plan
  to develop the Atomic Bomb?
• The Manhattan Project

50
Medium

• What are the two key differences between the
  League of Nations and the United Nations?
• UN has two tiers (security council and general
  assembly) and a military

51
Hard

• Whose policy was the Fair Deal, whose earlier
  policy was this policy based on,, and what was
  the basic heart of the Fair Deal policy?
• Truman FDRs government helps protect the poor

52
Easy

• What were Levittowns?
• Cookie-cutter suburbs built after WWII

53
Medium

• Which U.S. president both started NASA and passed
  legislation increasing the focus on science and
  math in public schools?
• Eisenhower

54
Hard

• What is the basic provision of the 22nd
  Amendment?
• Only two terms for presidents

55
Easy

• Churchill coined a term for the division of
  Europe into western and eastern blocs. What was
  it?
• The Iron Curtain

56
Medium

• Germany was divided up among the allied victors
  of World War II at the ___________ Conference.
• Yalta

57
Hard

• What two countries was the Truman Doctrine
  designed to IMMEDIATELY aid?
• Turkey and Greece

58
Easy

• During what decade was the first red scare and
  during what decade was the second red scare?
• 1920s 1950s

59
Medium

• Senator Joseph McCarthy fell from power when he
  claimed there were communists infiltrating the
• Army

60
Hard

• What is the name of the high-level member of the
  American government whose denunciation as a spy
  was a major factor in the Red Scare?
• Alger Hiss

61
Easy

• What Supreme Court Case finally ENDED American
  separate but equal policies?
• Brown v the Board of Education

62
Medium

• What is historically important about Lee Harvey
  Oswald?
• Assassin of JFK

63
Hard

• What is the term for the idea that businesses
  (and others) need to take steps to end
  discrimination rather than simply be blind to
  different races?
• Affirmative Action

64
Easy

• Why did president Eisenhower send the National
  Guard to Little Rock, Arkansas in the 1950s?
• To support the integration of schools

65
Medium

• What nicknames did I give for the generation that
  came of age during the Great Depression and World
  War II AND for the generation that came of age
  during the 1950s and 60s (in this order!)
• Greatest Generation Baby Boomers

66
Hard

• What program of JFKs was meant to turn thousands
  of Americans into international good will
  ambassadors?
• The Peace Corp