Transcript Review Game 7

1920s Jazz Age
Great
Depression
World
War II
World
War II
at Home
Cold War
Civil
Rights
Movement
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1920s (Jazz Age) - 100 Points
Question
What was the illegal manufacture,
transportation, or sale of alcohol in the
1920s?
1920s (Jazz Age) - 200 Points
Question
What happened in October 1929 that
ended the prosperity of the 1920s?
1920s (Jazz Age) - 300 Points
Question
What was the “good times” enjoyed by
Americans in the 1920s?
1920s (Jazz Age) - 400 Points
Question
What was the fear after World War I
that the communists were trying to start
a revolution in the United States?
1920s (Jazz Age) - 500 Points
Question
What was the court case in Tennessee in
1925 on the teaching of evolution in the
public schools?
Great Depression - 100 Points
Question
What is a time of economic decline with a
sharp drop in business activity?
Great Depression - 200 Points
Question
What happened when banks could not pay
depositors their money because the banks
had loaned out the money?
Great Depression - 300 Points
Question
What was the program of President
Roosevelt to get the United States out of
the depression of the 1930s?
Great Depression - 400 Points
Question
What was the legislation passed in 1935
to provide money to single parents,
disabled, and retired Americans?
Great Depression - 500 Points
Question
What agency was created during the
1930s to insure checking and saving
accounts in banks against loss?
World War II - 100 Points
Question
What was the attack by Japan that
caused the United States to enter World
War II?
World War II - 200 Points
Question
What was the invasion Allied troops of
France on June 6, 1944 (“D-Day”)?
World War II - 300 Points
Question
What was the imprisonment, torture, and
execution of more that 6 million Jews by
Nazi Germany?
World War II - 400 Points
Question
What Japanese cities did the United
States drop atomic bombs on to end
World War II?
World War II - 500 Points
Question
What U.S. victory was the turning point
of World War II in the Pacific Ocean?
World War II at Home - 100
Points
Question
What was used the describe what was
happening within the United States during
World War II?
World War II at Home - 200
Points
Question
What was the treatment of Americans of
Asian descent during World War II?
World War II at Home - 300
Points
Question
What was the limiting the use of rubber,
gasoline, oil, sugar, butter, and meat
during World War II?
World War II at Home - 400
Points
Question
What weapon did President Truman use
against Japan to end World War II in the
Pacific?
World War II at Home - 500
Points
Question
What provided World War II veterans
with aid in going to school, starting a
business, or buying a home?
Cold War - 100 Points
Question
What policy promised U.S. aid to any
nation threatened by communism after
World War II?
Cold War - 200 Points
Question
What U.S. policy helped to rebuild
Western Europe after World War II?
Cold War - 300 Points
Question
What was the mutual defense pact among
the United States and Western European
nations to contain the spread of
communism?
Cold War - 400 Points
Question
What was the fear of communists in the
U.S. government in the 1950s?
Cold War - 500 Points
Question
What was the Russian satellite launched in
1957 that began the space race?
Civil Rights Movement - 100
Points
Question
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 - 200
Points
Question
What was the U.S. Supreme Court case
that required the integration of the public
schools in the United States?
Civil Rights Movement - 300
Points
Question
What amendment adopted in 1870
extended the right to vote to African
American males?
Civil Rights Movement - 400
Points
Question
What amendment adopted in 1868 defined
U.S. citizenship and provided for equal
protection under the law?
Civil Rights Movement - 500
Points
Question
What legislation passed in 1964 prohibited
employers from discriminating and gave
the federal government the power to
desegregate public places?