Lessons 43-63

Question 1

Who led the Discovery Expedition within 575 miles of the South Pole?

Answer 1

Robert Scott.

Question 2

When ? became president in 1932, he pledged to make a ? for the American people

Answer 2

Franklin D. Roosevelt, “new deal”

Question 3

To help “contain” Communism, U.S. President Truman created the Air Force, the CIA, and the Department of Defense.

Answer 3

Cold War

Question 4

When was the Great Depression?

Answer 4

1929

Question 5

After a significant loss in the Battle of Vittorio Veneto, Austria-Hungary signed a truce with Italy and stepped out of the war

Answer 5

world war 1

Question 6

Canadian forces under Arthur William Currie won great respect for a victory at the Battle of the Vimy Ridge

Answer 6

world war 1

Question 7

On Tuesday, ?, 1929, the bottom gel out, so to speak, and we say the stock market ?

Answer 7

October 29, “crashed”

Question 8

Who lost the race to the South Pole and froze to death in Antarctica?

Answer 8

Roald Amundsen

Question 9

In agriculture (in the US), farmers suffered from and imbalance in ? and ?

Answer 9

supply, demand

Question 10

My crew and I made it to the South Pole on December 14, 1911.

Answer 10

Roald Amundsen

Question 11

“With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire”

Answer 11

Mohandas Ghandi

Question 12

But, as quickly as the US received these funds, it loaned them back out to ? which was to broke to pay the Allies the reparations assigned them

Answer 12

Germany

Question 13

“All these fifty years of pondering have not brought me any closer to answering, what are light quanta?”

Answer 13

Albert Einstein

Question 14

In the First Battle of the Marne, the Allies stopped the Germans just 15 miles outside Paris.

Answer 14

World War 1

Question 15

The Germans introduced poison gas to the battlefield at the Second Battle of Ypres.

Answer 15

World War 1

Question 16

At least 10,000 American and Filipino troops died on the Bataan Death March

Answer 16

world war 2

Question 17

What were Jews identified by during the Holocaust?

Answer 17

yellow stars

Question 18

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

Answer 18

Albert Einstein

Question 19

What was the largest and worst camp?

Answer 19

Auschwitz 2

Question 20

When was World War 2?

Answer 20

September 3, 1939-September 2, 1945

Question 21

Soviets formed the German Democratic Republic, but most people called it East Germany

Answer 21

world war 1

Question 22

“Newton, forgive me!”

Answer 22

Albert Einstein

Question 23

What do the Jews prefer to call the Holocaust that means “calamity” in Hebrew?

Answer 23

Shoah

Question 24

“My national service is part of my training for freeing my soul from the bondage of flesh.”

Answer 24

Mohandas Ghandi

Question 25

In the 1920s, shrewd and unscrupulous traders were seeking to get rich by ? the market with ? stock.

Answer 25

inflating, overpriced

Question 26

In my old age, I rode a modern airplane with famed Howard Hughes.

Answer 26

Orville Wright

Question 27

I was the older 'Wright brother" and the caretaker of my mother.

Answer 27

Wilbur Wright

Question 28

"When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in min written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of choice bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use."

Answer 28

Helen Keller

Question 29

Under the WASP unit, 1,074 American women served as paramilitary pilots, covering the 60 million miles

Answer 29

world war 2

Question 30

The Marshall Plan was designed to pour billions of U.S. dollars into the recovery of Europe

Answer 30

cold war

Question 31

Following a great loss at the Battle of Okinawa, General Mitsuru Ushijima killed himself in the style of the samurai

Answer 31

world war 1

Question 32

The Big Three, represented by Stalin, Truman, Churchill (and Clement Attlee) met at Potsdam to divide Germany.

Answer 32

World War 2

Question 33

Senator Joseph McCarthy saw to the questioning of thousands of Americans during the Red Scare to weed out suspected spies in the U.S. government.

Answer 33

cold war

Question 34

In 1942, nine years into the Third Reich, Hitler allowed ? to begin the construction of extermination camps

Answer 34

Heinrich Himmler

Question 35

How many Polish people were killed during the Holocaust?

Answer 35

2 million

Question 36

The Zimmerman Note, which offered U.S. lands to Mexico, lured Americans into war under Woodrow Wilson.

Answer 36

Cold War

Question 37

How many people were killed during the Holocaust?

Answer 37

11-17 million

Question 38

The Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis described a long-distance relationship of three allies that formed after the Japanese invasion of China

Answer 38

world war 2

Question 39

How many Jews were killed during the Holocaust?

Answer 39

6 million

Question 40

In the mid 1930s a severe ? hit the midwest and southwest

Answer 40

drought

Question 41

How many disabled Germans were killed?

Answer 41

250,000

Question 42

How many Romani (Gypsies) were killed during the Holocaust?

Answer 42

500,000

Question 43

The first stock markets originated in Europe in the ?

Answer 43

1300s

Question 44

In the Katyn Massacre, Soviets marched 5,000 Polish officers into the Katyn forest for execution.

Answer 44

World War 2

Question 45

"The beautiful truth burst upon my mind - I felt that there were invisible lines stretched between my spirit and the spirits of others."

Answer 45

Helen Keller

Question 46

The US was prosperous enough during the Great War to grant ? to its European Allies

Answer 46

loans

Question 47

Ultimately, the Ottoman Turks won a number of battles known as the Gallipoli Campaign

Answer 47

world war 1

Question 48

"The public must learn that the blind man is neither genius nor a freak nor an idiot."

Answer 48

Helen Keller

Question 49

The US tried to recoup money during the depression by raising ?

Answer 49

tariffs

Question 50

"I am every moment of my life trying to live up to my professions."

Answer 50

Mohandas Ghandi

Question 51

Who piloted the first liftoff of the Wright Flyer on December 17, 1903?

Answer 51

Orville Wright

Question 52

The Holocaust, by broad definition, was the mass extermination of ? to ? million people under Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime

Answer 52

11 to 17 million

Question 53

Who died from typhoid fever at age 45, leaving my brother to run their business?

Answer 53

Wilbur Wright

Question 54

Southern France, also called Vichy France, remained unoccupied and a "free zone" until it fell to the Nazis.

Answer 54

world war 2

Question 55

Who crossed the Drake Passage to launch a rescue team to Elephant Island?

Answer 55

Ernest Shackleton

Question 56

How many Soviet prisoners-of-war were killed during the Holocaust?

Answer 56

2-3 million

Question 57

Nations around the world formed the United Nations to keep peace in the war-weary world and provide arbitration.

Answer 57

World War 2

Question 58

My ship froze in the ice and sank during my exploration of Antarctica.

Answer 58

Ernest Shackleton

Question 59

When was World War 1?

Answer 59

1914-1918

Question 60

Some nations turned to lowering the value of their ?

Answer 60

currency