Prohibition.KKK.WWI
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| Who organized the KKK? | ex-confederates
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| What year was the KKK organized? | 1866
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| What was the symbol used to identify a KKK act? | Burning Cross
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| Who introduced the idea of the burning cross | William Simmons
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| Year the second KKK was organized | 1915
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| The KKK was against which groups | anti-black, anti-immigrant, anti-catholic, antisemtic
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| At the KKK's peak its membership reached... | 4-5 million members
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| Who revived the KKK in the 1990s? | David Duke
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| Who was the ex-Baseball player turned preacher against the drinking of alcohol? | Billy Sunday
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| Which ammendment made alcohol illegal? | 16th
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| When did Prohibition begin? | January 16,1919
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| In what year was prohibition abolished? | 1933
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| What percentage of crime involved alcohol during the prohibition era? | 50%
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| Who was the Rum Running Queen | Mrs. Willie Carter Sharpe
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| Who was the most famous gangster from Chicago, in-charge of the illegal liquor trade? | Al Capone
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| What is the name of the bloody massacre committed by Al Capone's men? | St. Valentine's Day Massacre
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| What % of the cops were "on the take" during prohibition? | 50%
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| Which countries made up the Triple Alliance? | Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
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| Which country left the Triple Alliance to join the Triple Entente? | Italy
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| Which three countries made up the Triple Entente? | Great Britian, France and Russia
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| Which group did Turkey later join? | Triple Alliance
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| Whose armies doubled between 1870 and 1914 | France and Germany
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| What was Von Schlieffen's plan | to attack France by going through Belgium if Russia attacked Germany.
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| Nationalism | being a strong supporter of the rights and interests of one's country.
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| Alliance | an agreement made between two or more countries to give each other help if it is needed.
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| Imperialism | when a country takes over new lands or countries and make them subject to their rule.
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| Militarism | when army and military forces are given a high profile by the government.
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| What advantage did the bolt-action rifle give a soldier in WWI? | It added speed, accuracy and distance
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| The Machine Gun had the fire-power of how many single guns? | 100
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| Name the two gases used in the WWI | Chlorine Gas and Mustard Gas
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| What was the Zeppelin? | an airship used by the Germans to carry machine guns and bombs.
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| What was the problem with the Zeppelin? | It was easily shot down
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| what is it called when two planes fight in the sky? | dogfight
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| The Germans torpedoed what passenger liner? | The Lusitania
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| What year did America join the war? | 1917
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| Empire | Where a powerful country controls several less powerful countries.
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| The Treaty of Versailles blamed who for WWI? | Germany
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| The incident that sparked the beginning of WWI | the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
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| Germany agreed to a cease-fire on what date | Nov. 11, 1918
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| A cornerstone of Pres. Wilson's Fourteen Points was the creation of a world peace organization known as what? | League of Nations
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| World War I came to be known as what? | The war to end all wars.
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| List the 5 main causes of the First World War. | Rise of Nationalism, Growth of Imperialism, Increased Militarism, Formation of Military Alliances, Igniting Incident
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| A truce or agreement to end an armed conflict | Armistice
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| British intercepted telegram in 1917 revealing a German proposal that Mexico go against the US | Zimmerman note
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| Term for large-scale movement of hundreds of thousands of Southern blacks to northern cities. | Great Migration
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| 1917 law that required men to register for military service | Selective Service
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| Biased mass communication designed to influence people | propaganda
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| 1919 peace treaty at end of WWI which established new nations | Treaty of Versailles
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| Compensation paid by a defeated nation for war damages | reparations
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| The leader of the American Expeditionary Force who believed in aggressive combat | John J Pershing
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| US senator who led campaign to keep America out of the League of Nations | Henry Cabot Lodge
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| America's president during WWI | Woodrow Wilson
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| The international organization for the peaceful settlement of grievances | League of Nations
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| Federal agency led by Bernard Baruch that regulated the economy and increased efficiency during the war | War Industries Board
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| A person who opposes warfare on moral grounds | conscientious objector
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| The Fourteen Points of the early 20th century were issued to do what? | were issued by President Wilson as a basis for a lasting peace.
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| A cause for the US becoming involved in WWI was... | threats to American security by Germany
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| In the months leading up to WWI, the US wanted to maintain its neutrality because | the US was trading heavily with European nations and did not want its business interrupted.
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| The US Congress refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles (1919) because | it felt the League of Nations would restrict America of its sovereignty.
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| How did WWI impact African Americans? | It accelerated the Great Migration
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