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

1920s (Jazz Age) Points Answer Prohibition

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

1920s (Jazz Age) Points Answer Stock Market Crash

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

1920s (Jazz Age) Points Answer The Roaring ‘20s

1920s (Jazz Age) 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) Points Answer Red Scare

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

1920s (Jazz Age) Points Answer Scopes trial

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

Great Depression Points Answer depression

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

Great Depression Points Answer Bank failures

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

Great Depression Points Answer The New Deal

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

Great Depression Points Answer The Social Security Act

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

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

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

World War II Points Answer Pearl Harbor

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

World War II Points Answer Invasion of Normandy

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

World War II Points Answer The Holocaust

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

World War II Points Answer Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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

World War II Points Answer Battle of Midway

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

World War II at Home Points Answer Women

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

World War II at Home Points Answer Internment

World War II at Home 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 Points Answer Rationing

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

World War II at Home Points Answer Atomic bomb

World War II at Home Points Question What provided World War II veterans with aid in going to school, starting a business, or buying a home?

World War II at Home Points Answer GI Bill

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

Cold War Points Answer Truman Doctrine

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

Cold War Points Answer Marshall Plan

Cold War Points Question What was the mutual defense pact among the United States and Western European nations to contain the spread of communism?

Cold War Points Answer NATO

Cold War 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....?

Cold War Points Answer McCarthyism

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

Cold War Points Answer Sputnik I

Civil Rights Movement 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 Points Answer Martin Luther King, Jr.

Civil Rights Movement 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 Points Answer Brown v. Board of Education

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

Civil Rights Movement Points Answer 15th Amendment

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

Civil Rights Movement Points Answer 14th Amendment

Civil Rights Movement Points Question What legislation passed in 1964 prohibited employers from discriminating and gave the federal government the power to desegregate public places?

Civil Rights Movement Points Answer Civil Rights Act of 1964