Welcome!The Topic For Today Is…

Your Topic1920s Great

DepressionWWII in Europe

WWII in the Pacific

Potpourri

200 200 200 200 200

400 400 400 400 400

600 600 600 600 600

800 800 800 800 800

1000 1000 1000 1000 1000

Bonus Question: 5000 pts

Topic 1: 200• Question:• This Amendment to the Constitution led to the

prohibition of alcohol.• Answer• The 18th Amendment

Back

Topic 1: 400• Question:• This movement located in the Upper West

Side of Manhattan showcased the artistic talents of many influential African Americans.

• Answer• The Harlem Renaissance

Back

Topic 1: 600• Question:• This refers to the belief that America should

only be for Americans.• Answer• Nativism

Back

Topic 1: 800• Question:• This practice which allowed individuals to

purchase 10 times as many shares as they were financially able to led to the financial ruin of many investors following the stock market crash of 1929.

• Answer• Buying on margin

Back

Topic 1: 1000• Question:• These operations aimed at weeding out

communists both turned violent and fed the Red Scare.

• Answer• Palmer Raids

Back

Topic 2: 200• Question:• President Franklin D. Roosevelt instituted this

set of policies as a remedy for the Great Depression.

• Answer• The New Deal

Back

Topic 2: 400• Question:• This group of American veterans marched on

Washington in search of benefits promised to them in the future.

• Answer• The Bonus Army

Back

Topic 2: 600• Question:• All New Deal programs were based on these

three concepts beginning with “R”.• Answer• Relief, Recovery, and Reform

Back

Topic 2: 800• Question:• This failed Hoover fiscal policy was designed to

end the Great Depression.• Answer• Cut spending and raise taxes

Back

Topic 2: 1000• Question:• Name 5 of the 7 causes of the Great

Depression• Answer• Agricultural Overproduction, Industrial

Overproduction, Overspeculation, Easy Money (credit), Poor Monetary Policy, Poor Fiscal Policy, High Tariffs

Back

Topic 3: 200• Question:• This policy allowed Hitler to occupy sovereign

nations around Germany unopposed.• Answer• Appeasement

Back

Topic 3: 400• Question:• This type of government places complete

control in the hands of one individual i.e. Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini

• Answer• Totalitarianism

Back

Topic 3: 600• Question:• This Allied invasion began in Normandy and

served as the beginning of the end of the European Theater of WWII.

• Answer• Operation Overlord

Back

Topic 3: 800• Question:• This battle was the result of the final German

offensive.• Answer• Battle of the Bulge

Back

Topic 3: 1000• Question:• This naval battle lasted for the first two years

of US involvement in WWII.• Answer• Battle of the Atlantic

Back

Daily Double• Question:• Japan launched a “surprise” attack on this

target to lure the US into WWII.• Answer• Pearl Harbor

Back

Topic 4: 400• Question:• Atomic bombs were dropped on these

Japanese cities as a means of quickly ending WWII.

• Answer• Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Back

Topic 4: 600• Question:• General Douglas MacArthur proclaimed “I will

return” after surrendering his army following America’s first encounter with the Japanese in this territory.

• Answer• The Philippines

Back

Topic 4: 800• Question:• This battle was seen as a turning point in the

war after America’s ability to crack the Japanese code avoided a planned diversion battle in the Aleutian Islands allowed for a decisive victory.

• Answer• Battle of Midway

Back

Topic 4: 1000• Question:• Japan’s navy was virtually destroyed in this

naval battle, the largest in history.• Answer• Battle of Leyte Gulf

Back

Topic 5: 200• Question:• This was Hitler’s “Final Solution” to obtain his

goal of “racial purification”.• Answer• The Holocaust

Back

Topic 5: 400• Question:• This symptom of overspeculation is often

misunderstood as a cause of the Great Depression.

• Answer• The Stock Market Crash of 1929

Back

Topic 5: 600• Question:• The Axis Powers consisted of ___, ___, and

___ while the Allied Powers consisted of ___, ___, ___, and ___ (even though one of these nations was quickly overrun by the Nazis).

• Answer• Axis: Germany, Italy, and Japan; Allies: US,

Great Britain, USSR, and FranceBack

Topic 5: 800• Question:• How were the Neutrality Acts designed to

prevent US entry into WWII?• Answer• The US could no longer sell arms to any

warring nation (civil wars included).

Back

Topic 5: 1000• Question:• This US President’s legacy was tarnished by

the Teapot Dome Scandal.• Answer• Warren G. Harding

Back

Final Jeopardy

Final Jeopardy.• Question:• These were the names given to the atomic

bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.• Answer• …• Fat Man and Little Boy

Back

Daily Double

The Winner Of The Last RoundWrite Down How Much Money

You Are Willing To RiskIf You get the Question write you win that money

If you get it wrong you Loss the money!

Daily Double

The Winner Of The Last RoundWrite Down How Much Money

You Are Willing To RiskIf You get the Question write you win that money

If you get it wrong you Loss the money!