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Question | Answer |
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1. What was the issue in the Teapot Dome Scandal? | Two oilmen giving Albert B. Fall $400.000 in exchange for renting government oil reserves. |
2. What was a Flapper? | A young woman in the 1920s tho cut their hair short, wore short skirts, and painted their lips bright red. |
3. What was a speakeasy? | A place where alcohol was sold illegally during Prohibition. |
4. What year did the stock market crash? | 1929 |
5. What name was given to the administration of Franklin Roosevelt? | The New Deal |
6. what government program was passed to help the elderly in the 1930s? | The Social Security Act |
7. What group opposed the reforms of Franklin Roosevelt? | The Supreme Court |
8. What was the name of the political party of Benito Mussolini? | The Fascist party |
9. What was the name given to Adolf Hitler that meant "leader"? | der Fuhrer |
10. What group was murdered in the Holocaust? | The Jews |
11. What country was invaded by Germany to officially start World War II? | Poland |
12. What was the name given to the type of warfare of Germany in World War II? | Blitzkrieg |
13. What countries comprised the Axis Powers? | Germany, Italy, and Japan |
14. What place was bombed on December 7, 1941? | Pearl Harbor, Hawaii |
15. What is the name given to June 6, 1944? | D-Day |
16. What agreement discussed post war plans for the world in 1945? Where did the meeting take place? | The Yalta Agreement. Yalta a small town at the black sea in the Soviet Union |
17. What two cities were attacked with atomic bombs? | Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan |
18. What year saw an end to World War II? | 1945 |
19. What was the name of the third party running for presidency in 1948? | The "Dixiecrat" party |
20. What was meant by the term "Iron Curtain"? | The military weapons that the Soviet Union used to keep control of Europe |
21. What was the Marshall Plan? | A four-year, multibillion-dollar plan to rebuild Europe |
22. What city was saved from takeover by the Soviet Union in 1948? | Berlin, Germany |
23. What American general was in charge of the U.N. forces in the Korean War? | General Douglas MacAuthur |
24. What is the name of the first satellite? | Sputnik |
25. What was the final outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis? | Missiles were removed from Cuba |
26. What happened to the Kennedy brothers and Martin L. King? | They were assassinated |
27. What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution? | The vote of congress that increased American involvement in the Vietnam War |
28. What group hoped to benefit by the Equal Rights Amendment? | Women |
29. What year did Neil Armstrong land on the moon? | 1969 |
30. What two major countries were visited by President Richard Nixon? | China and the Soviet Union |
31. What was the Watergate Scandal? | A major political scandal involving President Nixon attempting to spy on the Democrats |
32. What was the greatest accomplishment of President Jimmy Carter? | Dealing with the energy crisis and adding the Department of Energy and the Department of Education |
33. What country kept 52 American hostages for over a year in the 1970s? | Iran |
34. What president used the term "New Federalism"? | President Ronald Reagan |
35. What two countries were parts of the Iran-Contra Scandal? | The United States and Nicaragua (or Iran) |
36. What country was attacked in "Operation Desert Storm"? | Iraq |
37. What future president was implicated in the Whitewater Affair? | Bill Clinton |
38. What was the key state in the 2000 presidential election? | Florida |
39. Who was the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean? | Amelia Earhart |
40. Who was the president when the stock market crashed? | Herbert Hoover |
41. Who refused to give up her seat in the white section of a bus? | Rosa Parks |
42. Who did John Kennedy defeat for the presidency in 1960? | Richard Nixon |
43. Who were the three candidates for the presidency in 1968? | Hubert Humphrey, Richard M. Nixon, and George Wallace |
44. Who was the first woman on the Supreme Court? | Sandra Day O'Connor |
45. Who signed the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty for the Soviet Union? | Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan |
46. Who was the second president to be put on trial for crimes? | Bill Clinton |
47. Who did George Bush defeat for the presidency in 2000? | Al Gore |
48. Who was the first American to orbit the earth? | John Glenn |
49. Where is the Sudetenland? | Czechoslovakia |
50. Where were four students murdered for protesting the Vietnam War? | Kent State University in Ohio |
51. When did the Great Depression begin? | October 24, 1926, at the same time the stock market crashed |
52. What was the name of the program put into place during the Great Depression to help the elderly? | The Social Security Act |