U.S. Histomies

Question 1

President who signed the Civil Rights Act, and Voting Rights Act when in office.

Accepted Answer

Lyndon B. Johnson

Question 2

The people that work in the Supreme Court (Judicial Branch) are called..?

Accepted Answer

Justices

Question 3

African American fighter pilots that protected bombers during WWII?

Accepted Answer

Tuskegee Airmen

Question 4

1920's boxer.

Accepted Answer

Jack Dempsey

Question 5

Lawyer for the Brown family, and 1st African American Supreme Court Justice (Judicial Branch)?

Accepted Answer

Thurgood Marshall

Question 6

WWII Japanese general who planned the Pearl Harbor attack.

Accepted Answer

Hideki Tojo

Question 7

Soviet Union leader when the Berlin Wall fell down.

Accepted Answer

Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 8

Leader of Great Britain during WWII, and coined the phrase "Iron Curtain".

Accepted Answer

Winston Churchill

Question 9

President in office when the atomic bombs were dropped (WWII), and during the Korean War.

Accepted Answer

Harry Truman

Question 10

President when the Stock Market Crash happened in 1929. Shantytowns were named after him.

Accepted Answer

Herbert Hoover

Question 11

Former slave, scientist, teacher who taught farmers about Crop Rotation.

Accepted Answer

George Washington Carver

Question 12

ATL native who wrote Gone With the Wind.

Accepted Answer

Margaret Mitchell

Question 13

Famous Jazz composer, extremely popular in the 1930's.

Accepted Answer

Duke Ellington

Question 14

Leader of the Soviet Union during WWII, and the beginning of the Cold War.

Accepted Answer

Joseph Stalin

Question 15

The Legislative Branch is known as..?

Accepted Answer

Congress

Question 16

President during WWI, and created the League of Nations.

Accepted Answer

Woodrow Wilson

Question 17

African American boy kidnapped in Mississippi & murdered. Motivated Rosa Parks 100 days later.

Accepted Answer

Emmett Till

Question 18

First to ever fly across the Atlantic Ocean from New York to Paris, France.

Accepted Answer

Charles Lindbergh

Question 19

Wisconsin senator who accused innocent Americans for being communist.

Accepted Answer

Joseph McCarthy

Question 20

1920's Jazz trumpeter during the Jazz age.

Accepted Answer

Louis Armstrong

Question 21

Who was assassinated June of 1968 at a presidential campaign stop in Los Angeles?

Accepted Answer

Robert F. Kennedy

Question 22

President during the Spanish American War, and a soldier during the Civil War.

Accepted Answer

William McKinley

Question 23

Famous baseball player (New York Yankees) in the 1920's.

Accepted Answer

Babe Ruth

Question 24

Who was the leader of the Civil Rights Movement who led the March on Washington?

Accepted Answer

Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 25

The leader of Fascist Italy during WWII?

Accepted Answer

Benito Mussolini

Question 26

Brothers who made history in Kittyhawk, North Carolina with the 1st powered flight.

Accepted Answer

Wright Brothers

Question 27

President during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

Accepted Answer

John F. Kennedy

Question 28

President when the Berlin Wall Came Down. "Mr. Gorbachev, bring down that wall!"

Accepted Answer

Ronald Reagan

Question 29

President during the Great Depression (New Deal), and the majority of WWII.

Accepted Answer

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 30

Inventor of the telephone.

Accepted Answer

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 31

President during the 9/11 terrorist attack. Started the War on Terror (Afghanistan).

Accepted Answer

George W. Bush

Question 32

What is the name of the Harlem Hell fighter that fought off Germans in a trench during WWI?

Accepted Answer

Henry Johnson

Question 33

Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.) leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis (Cold War & Space Race).

Accepted Answer

Nikita Khrushchev

Question 34

Who used the method of the assembly line (Specialization) to mass produce Model - T's?

Accepted Answer

Henry Ford

Question 35

Writer during the Harlem Renaissance.

Accepted Answer

Langston Hughes

Question 36

WWII general over the raids of Tokyo using B-29 Bombers.

Accepted Answer

Curtis Lemay

Question 37

Ho Chi Mihn was leader of...

Accepted Answer

Communist North Vietnam (Viet Cong)

Question 38

Migrant worker who co-founded NFWA, and started a California grape boycott.

Accepted Answer

Caser Chavez

Question 39

First Lady, greatest accomplishment in life was the Declaration of Human Rights.

Accepted Answer

Eleanor Roosevelt

Question 40

Leader of the Al-Qaeda terrorist group, and responsible for the September, 11 2001 attacks.

Accepted Answer

Osama Bin Laden

Question 41

Japanese WWII leader. Japanese citizens viewed him as a god.

Accepted Answer

Emperor Hirohito

Question 42

Won 4 gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

Accepted Answer

Jesse Owens

Question 43

WWII Pacific General, Korean War General who was fired by president Harry Truman.

Accepted Answer

Douglas MacArthur

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