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4. People World War I Other Wars Civil Rights Era Potpourri 10 Point 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 10 Point 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points World War II

5. He was the Fascist Dictator of Italy.

6. Who was Benito Mussolini?

7. John D. Rockefeller was associated with this big business.

8. What was oil?

9. This person helped develop the radio.

10. Who was Guglielmo Marconi?

11. Adolf Hitler was the dictator of this country.

12. What was Germany?

13. These two jazz composers were from the Harlem Renaissance.

14. Who were Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong?

15. This imaginary line runs parallel east and west.

16. What is latitude?

17. This imaginary line runs north and south.

18. What is longitude?

19. The nationalities that made up the immigrants after 1965.

20. Who were Hispanic Americans and Asian Americans?

21. Name the pacific states.

22. What are Washington, Oregon, California?

23. Exaggerated news reports.

24. What is Yellow Journalism?

25. List some of the causes of the Depression.

26. What were over speculation on stocks, borrowed money that could not be repaid, collapse of the banking system, and high tariffs?

27. Social security was a part of this program during the Depression.

28. What was The New Deal?

29. List some of the causes of World War II.

30. What were world wide depression, Germany’s high war debt, high inflation, massive unemployment?

31. This caused the Japanese to surrender during World War II.

32. What was the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

33. The fascist leader of Japan during World War II.

34. Who was Hideki Tojo?

35. List some of the reasons for increased immigration after the Civil War.

36. What were hope for better opportunities, religious freedom, relief from oppressive governments, and adventure?

37. List some reasons for western expansion in the Post Civil War era?

38. What were opportunities to own land, possibility of wealth (gold and silver), technological advances including the Transcontinental Railroad, a new beginning for former slaves, and adventure?

39. The sinking of the U.S.S. Maine caused tensions leading to this war.

40. What is the Spanish American War?

41. The conflict between the U.S. government and American Indians who were being forced to move to reservations.

42. What was the Battle of Little Bighorn?

43. The two countries that were involved in the Cold War.

44. Who were the U.S. and the Soviet Union?

45. The city that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus that began a boycott.

46. What is Montgomery, AL?

47. This court case desegregated schools and overturned Plessy v. Ferguson.

48. What was Brown v. Board of Education?

49. He gave this speech and said, “I have a dream”.

50. Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?

51. The poet that combined the experiences of African and American cultural roots in his work.

52. Who is Langston Hughes?

53. The African American who believed in full political, civil, and social rights for his race.

54. Who was W.E.B. Du Bois?

55. This city was the center of the automobile industry?

56. What is Detroit?

57. The political philosophy in which total power is given to a dictator.

58. What is Facism?

59. The labor strike in Andrew Carnegie’s steel plant.

60. What is the Homestead Strike?

61. Name the nine Northeast states.

62. What are Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania?

63. List some of the negative effects of industrialization.

64. What were child labor, low wages, long hours, unsafe working conditions, and overcrowded immigrant tenements and neighborhoods?

65. Make your wager

66. They were some of the first labor saving products that resulted from electrification.

67. What were washing machines, electric stoves, and water pumps?