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1920s (Jazz Age) - 100 PointsQuestion

What was the era brought on by the 18th Amendment that made the

manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverage illegal

1920s (Jazz Age) - 100 PointsAnswer

Prohibition

1920s (Jazz Age) - 200 PointsQuestion

What happened in October 1929 that ended the prosperity of the 1920s?

1920s (Jazz Age) - 200 PointsAnswer

Stock Market Crash

1920s (Jazz Age) - 300 PointsQuestion

What was the era of prosperity, technological and social change enjoyed by Americans during the

1920s?

1920s (Jazz Age) - 300 PointsAnswer

The Roaring ‘20s

1920s (Jazz Age) - 400 PointsQuestion

What was the fear after World War I that the communists were trying to

start a revolution in the United States?

1920s (Jazz Age) - 400 PointsAnswer

Red Scare

1920s (Jazz Age) - 500 PointsQuestion

What was the court case in Tennessee in 1925 on the teaching of evolution in the public schools?

1920s (Jazz Age) - 500 PointsAnswer

Scopes trial

Great Depression - 100 PointsQuestion

What is a time of economic decline with a sharp drop in business

activity?

Great Depression - 100 PointsAnswer

depression

Great Depression - 200 PointsQuestion

What happened when banks could not pay depositors their money

because the banks had loaned out the money?

Great Depression - 200 PointsAnswer

Bank failures

Great Depression - 300 PointsQuestion

What was the program of President Roosevelt to get the United States out of the depression of the 1930s?

Great Depression - 300 PointsAnswer

The New Deal

Great Depression - 400 PointsQuestion

What was the legislation passed in 1935 to provide money to single parents, disabled, and retired

Americans?

Great Depression - 400 PointsAnswer

The Social Security Act

Great Depression - 500 PointsQuestion

What agency was created during the 1930s to insure checking and saving

accounts in banks against loss?

Great Depression - 500 PointsAnswer

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (F.D.I.C.)

World War II - 100 Points

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What was the attack by Japan that caused the United States to enter

World War II?

World War II - 100 Points

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Pearl Harbor

World War II - 200 Points

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What was the invasion of Allied troops nf France on June 6, 1944

(“D-Day”)?

World War II - 200 Points

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Invasion of Normandy

World War II - 300 Points

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What was the imprisonment, torture, and execution of more that 6 million

Jews by Nazi Germany?

World War II - 300 Points

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The Holocaust

World War II - 400 Points

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What Japanese cities did the United States drop atomic bombs on to end

World War II?

World War II - 400 Points

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki

World War II - 500 Points

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What U.S. victory was the turning point of World War II in the Pacific

Ocean?

World War II - 500 Points

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Battle of Midway

World War II at Home - 100 Points

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Which group of Americans experienced a great change in their

traditional role as a result of wartime production?

World War II at Home - 100 Points

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Women

World War II at Home - 200 Points

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What was the arrest, detainment, and relocation of American citizens of Asian descent during World War

II?

World War II at Home - 200 Points

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Internment

World War II at Home - 300 Points

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What was the limiting the use of rubber, gasoline, oil, sugar, butter,

and meat during World War II?

World War II at Home - 300 Points

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Rationing

World War II at Home - 400 Points

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What weapon did President Truman use against Japan to end World War

II in the Pacific?

World War II at Home - 400 Points

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Atomic bomb

World War II at Home - 500 Points

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What provided World War II veterans with aid in going to school, starting

a business, or buying a home?

World War II at Home - 500 Points

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GI Bill

Cold War - 100 Points

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What policy promised U.S. aid to any nation threatened by communism

after World War II?

Cold War - 100 Points

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Truman Doctrine

Cold War - 200 Points

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What U.S. policy helped to rebuild Western Europe after World War II?

Cold War - 200 Points

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Marshall Plan

Cold War - 300 Points

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What was the mutual defense pact among the United States and

Western European nations to contain the spread of communism?

Cold War - 300 Points

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NATO

Cold War - 400 Points

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The term for the fear of communists in the U.S. government in the 1950s

that bore the name of he U.S. senator who made many

accusations....?

Cold War - 400 Points

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McCarthyism

Cold War - 500 Points

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What was the Russian satellite launched in 1957 that began the

space race?

Cold War - 500 Points

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Sputnik I

Civil Rights Movement - 100 Points

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Who was the minister and leader of the civil rights movement who won a

Nobel Peace Prize and was assassinated in 1968?

Civil Rights Movement - 100 Points

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Civil Rights Movement - 200 Points

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What was the U.S. Supreme Court case that required the integration of

the public schools in the United States?

Civil Rights Movement - 200 Points

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Brown v. Board of Education

Civil Rights Movement - 300 Points

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What amendment adopted in 1870 extended the right to vote to African

American males?

Civil Rights Movement - 300 Points

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15th Amendment

Civil Rights Movement - 400 Points

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What amendment adopted in 1868 defined U.S. citizenship and

provided for equal protection under the law?

Civil Rights Movement - 400 Points

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14th Amendment

Civil Rights Movement - 500 Points

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What legislation passed in 1964 prohibited employers from

discriminating and gave the federal government the power to

desegregate public places?

Civil Rights Movement - 500 Points

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Civil Rights Act of 1964