1865 to the Present Triva

What are some of the ways technology has impacted on the American life?

What was the Manhattan Project? Name the director of this project

What was the symbolism of the destruction of the Berlin Wall?

Name an American novelist who wrote about the Jazz Age of the 1920s

Who desegregated the armed forces?

What was the turning point of the war in Eastern Europe in WWII? Who defeated whom?

What was the event called when the Soviet Union placed missiles in Cuba?

What countries occupied West Germany after World War II?

What was the Holocaust?

Name two people who have fairly recently had a big impact on economics technology & franchising

Who fought in the Battle of Midway and who was victorious?

What were some of the resources used for improving conditions for women?

What poet combined the experiences of African and American cultural roots in his work?

What war had no actual fighting but divided the world into two camps?

Which came first: the Great Depression or World War II? Name the decade for each

What does the NAACP stand for?

What was the date of the bombing of Pearl Harbor?

What was the theory that if one country fell to communism, the others would also fall?

What was the plan to rebuild Europe after WWII called? After whom?

What kind of government did West Germany form after WWII?

What are some of the changes in America's foreign policies in the last decades?

Who was Benito Mussolini?

Name two jazz composers from the Harlem Renaissance

Who gave a famous speech and said "I have a dream"?

What gave educational, housing, and employment benefits to veterans of WWII?

Adolph Hitler was the dictator of what country?

What were some of the causes of World War II?

Who was the "woman" who represented American women working in defense plants during WWII?

Name the wife of a president who worked to expand human rights?

What were the two superpowers involved in the Cold War?

Who invaded France, Capturing Paris before America entered into World War II?

What artist painted urban scenes and then later paintings of the Southwest?

What were some of the major features of the New Deal?

What is globalization?

What event began the liberation of Western Europe in World War II?

Who was the fascist leader of Japan during World War II?

What set off the war in Europe two years before Pearl Harbor was attacked?

What caused the Japanese to surrender at the end of World War II?

Social Security was part of what program during the Depression?

Who were the Freedom Riders?

In a major post-World II conflict, South Korea and the U.S. fought with two countries?

In what field did Frank Lloyd Wright have a major influence? Charles Drew?

What were some of the causes of the Depression?

What is the political philosophy in which total power is given to a dictator?

What does NOW stand for?

Who was the Allied Leader of the Soviet Union during World War II?

Many Japanese Americans were placed into these camps during World War II.

How did the workforce change after World War II ended?

Approximately how many workers were without jobs during the Depression?

Name some industries that have benefited from new technologies

Who was Bessie Smith? John Steinbeck?

How did the Vietnam War end?

What were some of the reasons for the rapid growth of the American Economy after WWII?

Who was the Allied leader of Great Britain during World War II?

Who chronicled the experiences of the Great Migration north through art?

What court case desegregated schools and overturned Plessy v. Ferguson?

What two groups make up most of the recent immigrants to the United States?

How was Germany politically divided after World War II?

Name two composers who wrote uniquely American music

In what city did Rosa Park's refusal to give up her seat on a bus start a boycott?