History

Question 1

Ineffective presidents of the 1920s

Answer 1

Harding
Coolidge
Hoover

Question 2

What was prohibition?

Answer 2

the illegalization of alcohol during the 1920s
- failed

Question 3

Who were bootleggers?

Answer 3

people who supplied alcohol illegally during the 1920s and speakeasies

Question 4

What did the Woman’s Suffrage Movement accomplish?

Answer 4

Women successfully won the right to vote

Question 5

Who were the flappers?

Answer 5

Liberal women of the 1920s

Question 6

What dance was popular during the 1920s?

Answer 6

The Charleston

Question 7

What qualities did homes have in the 1920s?

Answer 7

Appliances
Electricity
Running water

Question 8

What was the Harlem Renaissance?

Answer 8

A cultural movement that took place in 1920s Harlem

Question 9

What was Herbert Hoover like during the great depression?

Answer 9

He had a “hands-off” policy that only made things worse for the nation

Question 10

What was FDR like during the Great Depression?

Answer 10

He had a “Hands-on” policy, which helped the economy recover

Question 11

What is a recession?

Answer 11

A cool down of the economy

Question 12

What is an economic depression?

Answer 12

A collapse in the economy

Question 13

What were Hoovervilles?

Answer 13

Tent cities that the poor lived in because of President Hoover

Question 14

What happens during overproduction?

Answer 14

When too much is produced, businesses often lay off workers

Question 15

Who initiated WW2?

Answer 15

Adolf Hitler and his aggressive policies

Question 16

What was germany like in the 1930s before WW2?

Answer 16

german military was far more superior to that of the US or any other countries in the world

Question 17

Axis powers

Answer 17

germany
Italy
France

Question 18

What happened after the German invasion in Poland?

Answer 18

Great britain and france declared war on germany

Question 19

What does blitzkreig mean?

Answer 19

Lightning war

Question 20

Total War

Answer 20

athe objective is to completely destroy your enemy so that they cannot resist

Question 21

Turning point of WW2

Answer 21

The Soviet Union being sble to push the germans out of stalingrad

Question 22

When was pearl harbor attacked?

Answer 22

dec.7 , 1941

Question 23

D-Day

Answer 23

On June 6 1944, allied forces landed on the beaches of Normany France, with the mission of liberating the continent of Europe

Question 24

When did Great Britains imperial power end?

Answer 24

WW2

Question 25

what does NATO stand for?

Answer 25

North Atlantic- Treaty Alliance

Question 26

What did the US do during the Korean War?

Answer 26

The sought to liberate south korea by forcing the north koreans back to the north

Question 27

When did US economy prosper?

Answer 27

1950s

Question 28

Rivals of the Cold War?

Answer 28

Us and its allies Vs. Soviet Union and its allies

Question 29

What was the role of the US in the cold war?

Answer 29

To contain, freeze, the spread of communism around the world

Question 30

What was the Warsaw Pact?

Answer 30

an alliance between the Soviet Union and its allies of the eastern bloc countries

Question 31

Truman Doctrine

Answer 31

stated that the US would come to the aid of any country that was under the threat of communism, if they asked

Question 32

The Marshall Plan

Answer 32

Provided financial suppoert to the western european countries in order to off set the soviet unions support

Question 33

What were the main reasons the cold war ended?

Answer 33

Mikhail Gorbachev initiated more liberal policies towards the west which cooled tensions between us
The Sobiet Union couldn’t keep up with the huge increases in military spending
Soviet Union’s economy collapsed

Question 34

What was the iron Curtain

Answer 34

A name given to the border between Eastern Europe and western Europe by Chruchill