History Abeka 17 and MOH wk 17 | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

Who took over after the death of the president and was sworn in by his father?

Calvin Coolidge

Woodrow Wilson

Theodore Roosevelt

Billy Sunday

What scandal came up at the beginning of Warren G. Harding's term as president?

Tea Pot Dome scandal (personal profit on sale of oil leases)

Watergate (Nixon spying)

Russiagate (Trump falsely accused as Russian agent)

Tea Party scandal

What did the 18th and 19th amendments do?

No sale/distribution of alcohol; women's right to vote

No slavery; all races have right to vote

Declared freedom of speech and freedom of religion

Allowed people to bear arms; allowed free elections

In the midst of religious modernism, some people held to the Bible's doctrines. Who?

Fundamentalists

Evolutionists

Liberals

Socialists

True or False There was no discrimination or segregation of black people in the 1920's

False (The KKK and much racial prejudice existed in the U.S. in the 1920's)

What were many families in the 1920's able to afford that they hadn't been able to before?

Cars, radios, refrigerators, washing machines, etc.

Food, clothes, and carriages

College education, laptops, and cell phones

Televisions, airplane tickets, push button cordless phones

Why were the 1920's called the roaring twenties?

Lots of new inventions, cars, assembly lines, jazz music ...

Lions escaping from the zoos in all the major cities

Computers, the internet, space exploration, Facebook

Wagon wheels across the prairie and transcontinental rail

What group in the U.S. sparked the creation of the General Intelligence Division, later known as the FBI?

Fear of Communist Revolution/ bombs exploding in June 1919

The rise of the Independent Party/ riots across cities

Fear of spies/ sinking of ships in U.S. ports

Fear of bans on chocolate imports/ giant chocolate parties

Why did Russia pull out of WWI and when?

Lenin signed an armistice & peace treaty with Germany in1918

They surrendered to Austria and Germany

Their peasants refused to fight

The Allies weren't Communists; they didn't like them anymore

In Lenin's New Economic Policy in Russia, what did he give back to appease peasants?

some economic freedom to small businesses and farmers

all freedom back to all Russians

money the tsar had taken from them

a Christmas dinner for each family

In the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, what happened to the Tsar Nicholas and his family?

They were sent to Siberia and then executed in 1918.

They were exiled to France.

They were allowed to return to power after Communism failed.

They escaped and no one knows where.

What did Lenin say was the goal of socialism (government-owned property & industry)?

Communism

Dictatorship

Fascism

Republicanism

What are some other names for communists?

Social Democrats or Marxists

Republicans or Democrats

Libertarians or Evolutionists

Fascists or punchable faces

What happened to Germany as a result of the Treaty of Versailles?

Germany had to disarm and pay $33 billion in reparations

Germany was taken over by Britain

Germany had to give 75% of its land to France and pay $6 mil

Germany gained more land and received payments from Allies

What is an armistice and when was it for WWI?

a cease fire, November 11, 1918

a place where arms are stored, Dec. 25, 1917

a special cast for soldiers with injured arms, used in 1914

a holiday marking the end of WWII, 1945

What were the 3 "fronts" in WWI?

Western front, Eastern Front, Mediterranean front

Northern front, Southern Front, Atlantic front

Allied front, Central front, and Italian front

Paris front, Austrian front, Russian front

What type of warfare was used in WWI?

trench warfare

guerilla warfare

Airsoft warfare

March in a line warfare

What is Espionage and what did the Espionage act of 1917 do?

spying on a nation/interfering with its security; it made people guilty of it have severe penalties!

Who led the Bolshevik Revolution and what type of government did he want?

Vladimir Lenin

Karl Marx

Woodrow Wilson

Charles Darwin

How did the U.S. pay for the war effort for WWI?

Taxes, Liberty loans, and conserving food and fuel.

Loans from Canada and tariffs.

Gold they already had from the gold rush.

What was the Zimmerman note?

Note from German secretary promising US land to Mexico

Note from US ambassador acting as a spy to Germany

Note from Russian ruler to Germany

Note from US president to Elon Musk

What event sparked the start of WWI?

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

The sinking of the Lusitania

Russian peasants deposing the czar

Submarines blockading British ports

What year did WWI start?

1914

1918

1908

1922