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2. 1920s (Jazz Age) - 100 Points Question What was the era brought on by the 18th Amendment that made the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverage illegal

3. 1920s (Jazz Age) - 100 Points Answer Prohibition

4. 1920s (Jazz Age) - 200 Points Question What happened in October 1929 that ended the prosperity of the 1920s?

5. 1920s (Jazz Age) - 200 Points Answer Stock Market Crash

6. 1920s (Jazz Age) - 300 Points Question What was the era of prosperity, technological and social change enjoyed by Americans during the 1920s?

7. 1920s (Jazz Age) - 300 Points Answer The Roaring ‘20s

8. 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?

9. 1920s (Jazz Age) - 400 Points Answer Red Scare

10. 1920s (Jazz Age) - 500 Points Question What was the court case in Tennessee in 1925 on the teaching of evolution in the public schools?

11. 1920s (Jazz Age) - 500 Points Answer Scopes trial

12. Great Depression - 100 Points Question What is a time of economic decline with a sharp drop in business activity?

13. Great Depression - 100 Points Answer depression

14. Great Depression - 200 Points Question What happened when banks could not pay depositors their money because the banks had loaned out the money?

15. Great Depression - 200 Points Answer Bank failures

16. Great Depression - 300 Points Question What was the program of President Roosevelt to get the United States out of the depression of the 1930s?

17. Great Depression - 300 Points Answer The New Deal

18. Great Depression - 400 Points Question What was the legislation passed in 1935 to provide money to single parents, disabled, and retired Americans?

19. Great Depression - 400 Points Answer The Social Security Act

20. Great Depression - 500 Points Question What agency was created during the 1930s to insure checking and saving accounts in banks against loss?

21. Great Depression - 500 Points Answer Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (F.D.I.C.)

22. World War II - 100 Points Question What was the attack by Japan that caused the United States to enter World War II?

23. World War II - 100 Points Answer Pearl Harbor

24. World War II - 200 Points Question What was the invasion of Allied troops nf France on June 6, 1944 (“D-Day”)?

25. World War II - 200 Points Answer Invasion of Normandy

26. World War II - 300 Points Question What was the imprisonment, torture, and execution of more that 6 million Jews by Nazi Germany?

27. World War II - 300 Points Answer The Holocaust

28. World War II - 400 Points Question What Japanese cities did the United States drop atomic bombs on to end World War II?

29. World War II - 400 Points Answer Hiroshima and Nagasaki

30. World War II - 500 Points Question What U.S. victory was the turning point of World War II in the Pacific Ocean?

31. World War II - 500 Points Answer Battle of Midway

32. World War II at Home - 100 Points Question Which group of Americans experienced a great change in their traditional role as a result of wartime production?

33. World War II at Home - 100 Points Answer Women

34. World War II at Home - 200 Points Question What was the arrest, detainment, and relocation of American citizens of Asian descent during World War II?

35. World War II at Home - 200 Points Answer Internment

36. 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?

37. World War II at Home - 300 Points Answer Rationing

38. World War II at Home - 400 Points Question What weapon did President Truman use against Japan to end World War II in the Pacific?

39. World War II at Home - 400 Points Answer Atomic bomb

40. 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?

41. World War II at Home - 500 Points Answer GI Bill

42. Cold War - 100 Points Question What policy promised U.S. aid to any nation threatened by communism after World War II?

43. Cold War - 100 Points Answer Truman Doctrine

44. Cold War - 200 Points Question What U.S. policy helped to rebuild Western Europe after World War II?

45. Cold War - 200 Points Answer Marshall Plan

46. 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?

47. Cold War - 300 Points Answer NATO

48. Cold War - 400 Points Question 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....?

49. Cold War - 400 Points Answer McCarthyism

50. Cold War - 500 Points Question What was the Russian satellite launched in 1957 that began the space race?

51. Cold War - 500 Points Answer Sputnik I

52. 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?

53. Civil Rights Movement - 100 Points Answer Martin Luther King, Jr.

54. 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?

55. Civil Rights Movement - 200 Points Answer Brown v. Board of Education

56. Civil Rights Movement - 300 Points Question What amendment adopted in 1870 extended the right to vote to African American males?

57. Civil Rights Movement - 300 Points Answer 15th Amendment

58. Civil Rights Movement - 400 Points Question What amendment adopted in 1868 defined U.S. citizenship and provided for equal protection under the law?

59. Civil Rights Movement - 400 Points Answer 14th Amendment

60. 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?

61. Civil Rights Movement - 500 Points Answer Civil Rights Act of 1964