Easy
•What country was most
harshly punished by the
Treaty of Versailles?
•Germany
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)
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 (orgot them into ‘foreign entanglements’U.S. was returning to isolationism);
Republicans
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
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
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
Easy
•Communism and Socialism are
closely related. Which is the more
extreme (radical) ideology?
•Communism
Medium
•What is the vocabulary
term for people who
believe in no government
of any kind?
•Anarchists
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
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
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.
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)
Easy
•In the 1920s, the U.S.
government was generally
________________ (harsh/
lenient) towards striking workers.
•Harsh
Medium
•What was Marcus
Garvey’s main claim to
fame (1920s)?
•Back to Africa Movement
Hard
•Consumerism boomed in the 1920s,
partially because of an increased
U.S. use of the following payment
system: _______________
•Buying on Credit
Easy
•In general, did presidents in
the 1920s think that the
government should have a
large or small role in the
American economy?
•Small
Medium
•Which of the following
were not presidents in the
1920s: Coolidge, Harding,
Hoover, FDR, JFK?
(Choose all that apply).
•FDR and JFK
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
Easy
•What 1920s vocab term is
represented by this picture?
•Flappers
Medium
•What sub-section of the
American population was
especially important in
pushing for prohibition?
•Women
Hard
•Which amendments to the
constitution brought Prohibition and
the Women’s Vote? Hint: they are
sequential.
•18th and 19th
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.
Medium
•In what city did black
Americans experience an
explosion of culture during the
1920s?
•Harlem
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
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.
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)
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
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
•In this map of the election in
1932, does the red represent
states the Republican candidate
won or states the Democratic
candidate won?
Medium
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
Easy
•Whose government was
more closely involved in the
American economy: Hoover’s
or FDR’s?
•FDR’s
Medium
•This image would best be
connected to a unit of the
American military known
as the ______________
•Tuskegee Airmen
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.
Easy
•Overall, WWII :
•a) made the Great
Depression Worse
•b) helped end the Great
Depression
•b
Medium
•What were the two parts
of the Double V campaign?
•Fighting in WWII
•Fighting against
discrimination
Hard
•De facto segregation is one kindwhat is the other? Use the fancy
vocab term and define it.
•De jure segregation- legal separation
of the races
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
Medium
•What court case first
legalized the ‘separate but
equal’ aspect of American
segregation practices?
•Plessy v Ferguson
Hard
•American women’s increasing
participation in the labor force during
WWII was symbolized by an
imaginary factory working woman
named __________ the __________
•Rosie the Riveter
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.
Medium
•What was the ‘Purple
Heart Battalion’?
•Japanese-American
Soldiers in WWII– highly
decorated for bravery
Hard
•What is the name of the Supreme
Court Case that was a challenge to
Executive Order 9066?
•Korematsu v United States
Easy
•MacArthur was the most famous
American general on the Pacific
Front in WWII. Who was his
European Front counterpart?
•Eisenhower
Medium
•What is the name of the
battle that was the Nazi’s
last gasp on the Western
Front?
•Battle of the Bulge
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
Easy
•Why were American codes so
hard for the Japanese to
break during WWII?
•Navajo Code Talkers
Medium
•W
•D
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
Easy
•What was the name of the
top secret American plan to
develop the Atomic Bomb?
•The Manhattan Project
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
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; FDR’s; government helps
protect the poor
Easy
•What were Levittowns?
•Cookie-cutter suburbs
built after WWII
Medium
•Which U.S. president both
started NASA and passed
legislation increasing the
focus on science and math
in public schools?
•Eisenhower
Hard
•What is the basic provision of the
22nd Amendment?
•Only two terms for presidents
Easy
•Churchill coined a term for the
division of Europe into western
and eastern blocs. What was it?
•The Iron Curtain
Medium
•Germany was divided up
among the allied victors of
World War II at the
___________ Conference.
•Yalta
Hard
•What two countries was the Truman
Doctrine designed to IMMEDIATELY
aid?
•Turkey and Greece
Easy
•During what decade was the first
red scare and during what decade
was the second red scare?
•1920s; 1950s
Medium
•Senator Joseph McCarthy
fell from power when he
claimed there were
communists infiltrating
the…
•Army
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
Easy
•What Supreme Court Case finally
ENDED American separate but
equal policies?
•Brown v the Board of Education
Medium
•What is historically
important about Lee
Harvey Oswald?
•Assassin of JFK
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
Easy
•Why did president Eisenhower
send the National Guard to Little
Rock, Arkansas in the 1950s?
•To support the integration of
schools
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
Hard
•What program of JFK’s was meant
to turn thousands of Americans into
international good will ambassadors?
•The Peace Corp