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1
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What was the KKK devoted to?

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Stopping immigration

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2
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What was the kkk’s slogan?

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100% Americanism

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3
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What was the 18th amendment?

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The prohibition of alcohol

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4
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Why did people not approve of drinking?

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It was unamerican
The wheat that was used to make alcohol/beer could have been used to make bread and other grainy food to send to soldiers in the war.

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What was the Volstead Act?

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Gave the police permission to enforce the law that said alcohol could not be produced, sold, shipped, or consumed in the U.S.

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6
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What was a bootlegger?

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Someone who smuggled alcohol bottles in their boots

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7
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What were some places that alcohol came from?

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Bathtub gin
Other countries
Mexico and Canada

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8
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Who made a fortune bootlegging?

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Joe Kennedy

JFK’s dad

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9
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How did gangsters transport alcohol?

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They bought old submarines

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10
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What was the choice gun for gangsters?

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Tommy gun

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11
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Where was the center for organized crime?

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Chicago

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12
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What happened in Chicago?

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Politics were tainted by gangsters
City bosses took over
Most corrupted politics
The police and judges were completely bought off

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13
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What was one way of transportation that gangsters used?

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Tunnels and trap doors

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14
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What is racketeering?

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Would have businesses pay them each month for protection and if they did not they went after them

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15
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What really set people off in Chicago?

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In 1957, bombs went off in stores

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16
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How much of the east coast rejected prohibition?

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95%

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17
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How much of Kansans followed prohibition?

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95%

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18
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What were the underground bars called?

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Speak easys

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19
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What were the two main cities for jazz?

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KC and NO

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20
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Who was the great sax player from kc?

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Charlie Parker

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21
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Who were the major gangsters?

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Al Capone
John Dillinger
Bonnie and Clyde

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22
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What was Capone’s nickname?

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Scar face

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23
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Who was Capone?

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No conscience
Nothing was too violent for him
He returned home to his family in the suburbs after violently killing people all day

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24
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What was the biggest event Capone was a part of?

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St. Valentine’s Day Massacre

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What happened at the SVDM?

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Al’s men dressed as police officers
They pretended for aid Bugs Morane
Morane’s guys were waiting for a shipment of illegal alcohol
Capone’s men checked the dudes for weapons
The “police” shot the men

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26
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What does lazzies fairer mean?

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Hands off

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27
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Who was the head of the federal bureau of investigation?

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J Edgar Hoover

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28
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What did J Edgar Hoover do?

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He collected files on Americans
Stayed director until he died
He had a lot of dirt on Kennedy
He was a cross-dresser

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29
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Who was Elliot ness?

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The first agent on the case of Chicago gangsters

Searched for speakeasies

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30
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What was the top ten list?

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The FBI took mugshots and put them on post office walls

Capone still escaped even through he was everywhere

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31
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What was Capone finally sent to jail for and what jail as he sent to?

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Tax evasion
Alcatraz
They kept the jury and judges as pure as possible

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32
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What did Capone die from?

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And std in prison

Died broken, poor, and lonely

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33
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What did the 21st amendment do?

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It reversed the 18th amendment

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34
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What was the 19th amendment?

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It was the right for women’s suffrage

Many states had already allowed women to vote

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35
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Why did the people in the west allow women to vote early?

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They needed more women to vote because they had too many Cowboys

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36
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Why were women rewarded the voting right?

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Because they stepped up so much when the men were away at war

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37
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Who was Harry burn?

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He was the final vote to see if women got suffrage or not. From Tennessee
Spoke out for women not being able to vote

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38
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What did Harry burn vote?

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They should be able to vote

His mom wrote him a note saying “don’t forget to be a good boy. Vote for suffrage”

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39
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What was the new organization made?

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The league of women voters

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40
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What were the voting places and what were they changed to?

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Bars saloons and clubs

Schools and churches

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41
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What was significant about the 1920 census?

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It was the first census to show that more people lived in cities rather than in the country

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42
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Who was warran g Harding and what was his slogan?

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Ran for president
1920
A republican
“A return to normalcy”

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43
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What did the republicans want?

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For the government to shrink and go back to normal
Taxes to go down
Nothing would ever be normal anymore

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44
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How long was harding’s presidency?

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2 years and 5 months
He had a very mysterious death
Possible poisoned by his wife because they did not get along

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45
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Who became president after harding’s death?

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The Vice President Calvin Coolidge

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46
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What was coolidge’s nkcknamd and why?

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Silent cal
Shyest president ever
Very 
lassiez-fairre
"The business of America is business"
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47
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What were the twenties like?

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Consumer society
Buying on credit
Time of national release

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48
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What were some inventions in the twenties?

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Radio
Electric stoves
Toasters
Vacuums 
Washers
Blenders
Refrigerators
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49
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What was new with cars?

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The model t
Soldiers wanted cars
Traffic laws
Speed limits
Traffic jams
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50
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Who was JC Nichols and what did he make?

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Kc guy
Made the first mall with parking areas
The country club plaza
Wide roads and tons of parking
Put up Christmas lights each year to publicize it
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51
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Who ordered that all roads should be paved concrete?

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Judge Truman

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52
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Why did police need cars?

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To keep up with criminals

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53
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Why were suburbs born?

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To get out of traffic

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54
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How did dating change in the twenties?

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People went out instead of going to eachother’s houses
People Went and parked in lovers lane
Drive ins emerged
This was the beginning of wreck less young people behavior

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55
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What was one of the major fads?

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Flagpole sitting

You just climb up and sit there

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56
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Who held the record for flagpole sitting and how long was it for?

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Alvin shipwreck Kelley

145 days

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57
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What was another fad?

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All-day dance contests

Just go for however long you can

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58
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More fads

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Live gold fish eating
Raccoon coats
"Age of the flapper"
They wore lipstick
Short bobbed hair
Flat chested
Goal to look like a boy
Swaying clothing
Sound in movie theaters
TV invented in the twenties just not in homes yet
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59
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Babe Ruth

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60 home runs for the Yankees
$60,000 contract
More $than the president
“I had a better year”

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60
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What was a very integrated sport?

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Boxing

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61
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What sport had the first million dollar game?

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Boxing

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62
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Who were considered the most amazing people?

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Aviators

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63
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Who was fine most famous aviator?

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Amelia Earhart

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64
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Who was Wiley post?

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The first airmail hero

Air traffic control

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65
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Who was Charles lindberg?

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Most famous aviator
At age 25 he left Long Island ny on the spirit of St. Louis to try and fly across the Atlantic on a single-engine airplane
Flew 33 hours successfully and landed on Paris
Endorsed everything
Became a hermit and a million ads and died in honolulu Hawaii

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66
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What was the first commercial airliner?

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Panam

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67
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What happened to culture in the twenties?

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Live for today
God is questioned
Psychology emerged and grew
Divorce became normal
2000% increase
Science eclipsed faith
68
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What happened in the scopes v monkey trial?

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John t scopes challenged the law that creation had to be taught in all schools
The schools sued him
William Jennings Brian represented scopes side
Chance Derrow represented the evolution side
Scopes lost
It brought tons of attention to evolution

69
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What act gave Indians the right to vote?

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Indian citizenship act by congress

70
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Who was Herbert Hoover?

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Self made millionaire
Mining engineer who made $ in Australia
Popular for the U.S. Food administration
Republican 
Inherited a great economy and a happy people 
Lazzies-fairre
People began buying stocks
71
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“On the margin”

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Did not have to buy and collateral down stock buying

an investor gave you money to pay for the stocks

72
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What day did the stock market collapse and what was it nicknamed?

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October 29, 1929

Black Tuesday

73
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What were bank runs?

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People began to run into banks and demand to get their money out before it was too late and their money was gone

74
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What was the depression thought to be?

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A quick recession

75
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What did Hoover encourage at state levels?

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Encouraged volunteerism

76
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What was Hoover portrayed as?

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Heartless and horrible

77
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What did Hoover not want?

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A big government

No socialism

78
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Who was fdr?

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Cam from a privileged family
Made a fortune in real estate and trade
Had nannies, tutors, and went to an elite school
Had a governess 
His hero is his cousin teddy
Married his cousin Elanor
Supported of Wilson
Made the navy reserve system
Got polio at age 39
Made cars and podiums
Democrat
Made the March of dimes which made a cure for polio
79
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What did Roosevelt do as a president?

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He believed Hoover was a spoiled brat
Served 4 terms and died the fourth
Made the government a huge bureaucracy and worsened the gov and depression

80
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What were Hoovervilles?

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Hobo towns

81
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What is the bank holiday act?

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Banks shut down for four days

Sent an army to check out the bank situation and if it was bad the gif took over

82
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What was the name of FDR’s radio show?

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Fireside chat

83
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What was rhe new deal?

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Made by fdr
Economy act
Created the national recovery system which was designed to end the depression and make people feel better

84
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What was the emergency banking act?

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Gave bank holidays

People began to rely on gold for money

85
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What was the economy act?

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Fdr ordered the federal government be observed and audited (spending)
He asked each dept. head to look for ways to downsize
Cut military pensions

86
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End of prohibition

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Ended the violence gangs and black market

87
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What was rhe agricultural adjustment act?

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Sort of controversial and sort of accepted
Taught farmers to be Eco friendly
And to be prepared for the dust bowls

88
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Securities and exchange comission

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Part of the federal gov that watches over the stock market
Made it illegal for companies to disclose deals “insider trading”
Looked for unethical activities in trade and stock market

89
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What is the wpa?

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Works progress administration
Built infrastructure
Similar to parks and rec
Created jobs (#1 purpose) 
It bettered the community
90
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What was rhe rural electrification act?

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Put people to work building dams

Msde jobs

91
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What was rhe Tennessee valley authority?

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Built dams on the tn River

92
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What is the social security act,

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Part of the pay heck withheld from the federal government

93
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What are the overall benefits if the nra?

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Established the nation’s first minimum wage
Minimum work age
40 hours max work week

94
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What were some problems of the nra?

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Did not end the depression
People were paid to do things that were not totally necessary
Roosevelt was always challenged by the Supreme Court

95
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What did Roosevelt do to revamp the court system?

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Roosevelt’s court packing plan

Never approved

96
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When was Hitler elected chancellor?

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March 1933

97
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What party did hitler join?

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The German workers party

Nsdap- NAZI party

98
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about hitler:

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Very good speaker/personality
Very short
Failed painter
He said the vamian republic was an illegitimate government 
Interesting speaking style
99
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What was hitler’s dream?

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To make Germany rhe third great reich

100
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What did hitler do in prison?

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Wrote his autobiography
Mein Kampf- my struggle
He wrote what he would do to help from the pain of WWI
He even wrote of the holocaust
He had Jewish blood in him and was from Austria not even Germany
He accused the Jews of being communist sympathizes
70 million Germans embraced the idea that Jews must be destroyed

101
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What was the final solution?

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Hitler’s extermination plan

102
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What was the name of the prison camp that was opened?

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Dachau

103
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How did hitler medically classify everyone?

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By significance of race

104
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Who was hitler’s role model?

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Benito Mussolini

“IL DUCE” the leader

105
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What was the new government style made by italy?

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Fascism
Extreme form of military dictatorship
Always in military uniform

106
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Who were the axis powers?

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Alliance between Italy and Germany

107
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How did other countries react when hitler began to break the treaty of Versailles?

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They did nothing

108
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What was Hitler Youth?

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Branch of the NAZIS
For young boys
Told that their parents were less important than hitler

109
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What were young women encouraged to do by hutler?

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Have premarital sex and reproduce with blonde haired and blue eyed men

110
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What was the Aryan race?

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The super race (along with the German race)

111
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Where were the 1936 Olympics?

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Germany

112
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What did the Germans do to prepare for the games?

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Took down all signs of racism
Took down medical experiment evidence
Hitler went and shook the hands of each winner if they were German

113
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What did Hitker do when Jesse Owens won the medal?

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JO was black
He win four gold medals
Hitler left the stadium when he competed

114
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Who was Neville Chamberlain?

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The British prime minister

115
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What did chamberlains tell hitler?

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The countries of Europe can not endure his advancing any longer
Hitler agreed to stop
He signed an agreement saying they would not

116
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What did chamberlain say when he returned home?

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“We have peace for our time!”

117
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What was the pact of steel?

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A treaty between Italy and Germany

Later included Japan

118
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What was the non aggression pact?

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Promise to not attack each other but not team up between hitler and Stalin

119
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What is blitzkrieg?

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Lightning warfare without warning
Move quickly and bombard immediately
Do this to avoid trench warfare

120
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Who declared war on Germany and the Soviet Union?

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Great Britain and France

121
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Who was Cornelia “Carrie” ten Boom?

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A Dutch girl who along wit her father helped many Jews escape the holocaust

122
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What was the name of the pact between Germany Italy and Japan?

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Tripartite

123
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Who were the friends closest to Britain?

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Dunkirk

124
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What hallened at Dunkirk?

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There was a heavy fog

When the fog lifted hitler saw the town was empty so he could not raid it

125
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What are the German secret police?

A

The gastapo

126
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Why did Hitler invade the USSR?

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He saw them as scum

127
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Where did the Japanese invade when they began to run out of room for their people?

A

Manchuria

128
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What were the planes that did bomb runs over Japan called?

A

Flying tigers

129
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Who was the new Japanese prime minister?

A

Hideki Tojo

130
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What party was Tojo the leader of?

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The war party

131
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What happened on December 7th 1941?

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There were Japanese in the U.S. Discussing peace
War had been declared on the U.S. By Japan that morning and they didn’t know
353 Japanese planes flew over Pearl Harbor
2 waves of attack so

132
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What was the name of the war base at PH?

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Hickman field

133
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Who was Dorrie Miller?

A 
Black 
A cook
Transferred from the pyro
No training
Ran up and got a gun from the deck and shot at everything in sight 
He was Americas first war hero
134
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What was the only battle ship that would not be raised again?

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The Arizona

135
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Which Japanese admiral was scared?

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Admiral Isoroku Yamamota

136
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What did Douglas MacArthur say when leaving the Philippines?

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I don’t want to leave but I shall return

137
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What did fdr say about Pearl Harbor?

A

It was a day which will live in infantry

138
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Who as the director of the bureau of Indian affairs?

A

John Collier

139
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Braceros

A

Contract laborers

140
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Pachucos

A

Teenage Mexican street fangs

141
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I generation Japanese immigrant

A

Issai

142
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2 gen Japanese immigrant

A

Nisei

143
Q

What freed the Japanese prisoners?

A

The korematsu decision

144
Q

What were children who stayed at home while their parents worked called?

A

Latchkey children

Eight hour orphans

145
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What did the senate investigating committee become?

A

The Truman committee

146
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Which German cities were massively bombed?

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Leipzig
Dresden
Berlin

147
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At what battle were the French freed from the German?

A

Battle of saint lo

148
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What was the lady major battle of the western front?

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Battle of the bulge

149
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When did hitler kill himself?

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April 39, 1945

150
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What day did the Germans surrender?

A

May 8, 1945

151
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What was the road Stilwell made called?

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The Burma, Ledo, or Stilwell road

152
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What was the Chinese wartime capital?

A

Chungking

153
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Who was the Chinese leader Stilwell got into a fifth with and what did Stilwell call him?

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Chaing kai-shek

The peanut

154
Q

What was the largest naval engagement in history?

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The battle of Leyte gulf

155
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What happened at the battle of Okinawa?

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The Japanese sent 3500 kamikaze (suicide planes)

156
Q

Who discovered the radioactivity of uranium?

A

Enrico Fermi

157
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Who was the leader of the Manhattan project?

A

General Leslie Grover

158
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Who made the actual atomic bomb?

A

J. Robert Oppenheimer

159
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What did women who fright for women’s suffrage call themselves?

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Silent sentinels

160
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What was one of the most famous clubs?

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The cotton club in new yorks Harlem district

161
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Who was the biggest silent movies star?

A

Charlie Chaplin

162
Q

Who was joe Lewis

A

Boxer

The brown bombers

163
Q

What dance did lucky Lindy inspire?

A

The lindy hop

164
Q

What was the Hoover dam first called?

A

The Boulder dam

165
Q

Who was hirler!/ girlfriend?

A

Eva Braun

166
Q

Who was hitlers minister of propaganda?

A

Joseph goebbels

167
Q

What was reborn in this era?

A

The KKK

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