WAR, PEACE, AND ALL THAT JAZZ: 1918—1945



WAR, PEACE, AND ALL THAT JAZZ: 1918—1945

Book 9, A History Of US, Joy Hakim

1—2. It ended on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, 1918. [13] _____________________ Who was the American President at this time? [13]________________________________

3—4. Wilson’s non-punitive plan for peace, it called for the replacement of imperialism with self-determination for all people; for an end to secret treaties; for arms reduction; and for free trade. [16-17] _______________________ The centerpiece of his proposal was this new world organization whose raison d’etre would be the replacing of war by rational negotiation. [18-19] ______________________________

5—6. What was the French royal palace that served as the setting for the post-World War I peace conference? _____________________ Who was the French premier who clashed with Wilson (he had seen France invaded twice by Germany during his lifetime and thus had little faith in a generous peace)? ______________________________

7—8. What was the American political body with which Wilson clashed over possible ratification of the treaty? ________________________ Who was the Republican who led opposition to the ratification?

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7. It killed as many people worldwide in 1918 as died during all of World War I. [21] __________________________

8. What famous 1913 art exhibit would introduce New York and the United States to modernist art? [24] ______________________

11—12. What 1920 amendment, also known as the Prohibition amendment, made it illegal to manufacture or sell liquor anywhere in the United States? [26] _______________ The legislation that was passed to provide for the amendment’s enforcement. [28] ___________________________________

13.Who was the first woman elected to Congress? [32] _________________________

14. The 19th Amendment did this. [32] _________________________________________

15. The attorney general in the immediate post-World War I era, he rounded up some 5,000 suspected anarchists and communists during infamous 1920 raids – those without citizenship papers were deported. [35-36] _________________________

16—17. Arrested during the post-World War I “Red Scare,” which two Italian immigrants were convicted of a Massachusetts armed robbery and murder, and ultimately executed in 1927 after a legal process that involved many irregularities? [35] ___________________________; __________________________________

18. A September 1920 terrorist bombing on which famous New York street killed 38 people, and fueled fears that the United States stood on the brink of revolution? [35] ________________________

19—20. Who was elected President in 1920 with a promise to return the country to “normalcy,” a theme which implied pulling back from international affairs after the tumult of World War I? [37-38] _______________________ The secret apportionment of which Wyoming naval oil reserves to private individuals, and companies became but the most of a series of scandals that plagued his Presidency? [38] _________________________

21. What was the nickname given to the young women who bobbed their hair; wore short skirts; put on makeup, and experimented not only with fashion but with new definitions of what it meant to be female? [43] _______________________

18. What is the dance style most associated in the popular mind with the “Jazz Age?” [43] _______________________

23—26. What Tennessee high school biology teacher was put on trial in 1925 for defying a state law that prohibited the teaching of the theory of evolution? [45] ___________________________________ What was the town in which the trial was held? [44] _____________________ What ACLU-sponsored lawyer defended the biology teacher? [45] __________________________________ The fundamentalist prosecutor, he had run three times previously as the Democratic candidate for President. [45] _______________________________________

24. What was the name popularly given to the artistic outpouring from Black New York in the 1920s? [46] _____________________________________

25. What was the nickname given to those Chicago baseball players who accepted bribes from gamblers to lose the 1919 World Series? [47] ____________________

26. Traded to the New York Yankees from the Boston Red Sox, he was moved from pitcher to outfielder and became in the 1920s the most famous athlete in an era known as the “Golden Age of Sports.” [47] _____________________

27. What female athlete won three medals in track and field at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics and became her generation’s outstanding golfer? [50] _____________________________________________

28. Why did Josh Gibson and Cool Papa Bell never get a chance to play baseball in the Major Leagues? [51] _____________________________________________

29. Who won four gold medals in sprinting and the long jump at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany? [54] _________________________________

30. Born of Alabama sharecroppers he became, as the “Brown Bomber,” one of the most famous boxers of all time. [54] _________________________

31. Born in New Orleans and known as “Satchmo” for his ability to hold vast amounts of air in his cheeks, what trumpeter became, with Duke Ellington, one of the two most famous musicians of the “Jazz Age?” [58] ____________________________

32. Which Broadway composer combined classical music with popular American trends to produce such masterpieces as “Rhapsody in Blue” and “Porgy and Bess?” [61] ______________________________________

33. Who became a national hero in 1927 after flying the “Spirit of St. Louis” across the Atlantic from New York to Paris? [67-71] ________________________________

34. This organization’s anti-Catholic, anti-urban, and anti-modernist message was at least as important in the 1920s as its racial exclusiveness; in the mid-1920s it had some 4 million members and it carried considerable influence within the Democratic Party not only in the South but in the Midwest and Northwest as well. [72-73] ___________________________

35. A Jamaican immigrant who moved to New York City, he organized the Universal Negro improvement Association and implored blacks to recognize that there was little place for them in the United States of the 1920s. [73] _______________________

36. What was the nickname given to October 24, 1929, the day the stock market crashed? [74] _______________________

37. What was the name given to the practice, common in the 1920s, of buying stocks with mostly borrowed money? [75] _______________________________

38. What independent government agency was formed in 1934 to regulate the stock market, largely a response to the Crash of five years earlier? [75] _____________________________________________

39. The world’s tallest building at the time of its completion in 1931, it had been designed as a testament to the genius of American capitalism. [76] __________________________________________

40. What was the percentage of the work force that was unemployed by 1932? [79] __________

41. Whose Depression-era novel The Grapes Of Wrath chronicled the westward migration of the some 3 million “Okies” and “Arkies” forced to abandon the Great Plains in the 1930s? [80] ______________________________________

42. What was the name given to that area of the Southwest most devastated by drought during the 1930s? [81] _______________________________

43. What Oklahoma songwriter became known as the bard of the Great Depression? [82] ______________________________________

44. The nickname given to the shantytowns that sprang up all over the nation in the early 1930s, they reflected the popular perception that the President had lost touch with people. [83] _________________________________

48—49. What was the name popularly given to the World War I veterans who set up camp within sight of the Capitol in the early 1930s to push for an early distribution of the bonus due to them in 1945? [85] _________________________ Which general, later to be a World War II hero, who dispersed these protestors using tear gas, tanks, the cavalry, and billy clubs? [85] ______________________________________

50. The crippling disease Franklin Roosevelt was stricken by at the age of 39. [97] ________________

37. What was the name popularly given to Roosevelt’s series of domestic policies designed to counteract the effects of the Depression? [105] _________________

38. “Let me first assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself” are words from what Roosevelt speech? [102] _____________________________

39. The name popularly given to Roosevelt’s advisors, many of them drawn from such universities as Columbia. [104] ______________________________

40. The first female cabinet member, she served as Roosevelt’s secretary of labor for twelve years. [104] ____________________________________

41. Which New Deal agency provided room and board and $30 a month to more than 2 million young men who worked on various projects in the nation’s parklands? [105] ______________________________________

42. This, the largest of the New Deal programs, provided employment for some 8.5 million people, on projects ranging from construction to oral history and mural-painting. [105] _______________________________________________

43. Which New Deal agency helped to provide electricity for those who lived in Appalachia? [105] ______________________________________________

44. An early American exponent of the future importance of air power, he was ultimately court-martialed and discharged from the army because of his willingness to openly question his superiors. [123] _________________________________

45. This legislation allowed for the lending of equipment and other potential war materiel to those European nations that were battling the Nazis. [ 123] ______________________________________

60—61. The December 7, 1941 Japanese attack on which naval base provided the immediate cause for American entry into World War II? [127-29] __________________________________ What was the approximate number of Americans killed during the attack? [128] _____________

60. Who was the leader of Russia during World War II? [131] _________________________________

61. True or False: In World War II, more people were killed by bombs or pieces of shells than by bullets. ____________

62. The 1942 battle is typically highlighted as one of the turning points of World War II; it marked the first defeat for the Japanese navy and also signaled the increased importance of air power. [143] _________________________

63. The two-thirds of the Japanese-American population at the time of World War II who were citizens; born in the U.S., they were automatically granted citizenship as opposed to their Issei forebears who were denied the opportunity to become citizens. [146] _______________

64. What was the approximate number of Japanese-Americans sent to internment camps during World War II? [146] _________________________

65. She became the symbol of female war workers. [154] ________________________

68—71. What was the name given to June 6, 1944, the date of the Allied invasion of Europe? [159] ___________________ What was the French province in which the invasion took place? [160] ___________________ The two beaches where the American forces landed. [161-62] ___________________; ____________________

72. What was the name given to Hitler’s last-ditch offensive on the Western Front? [164] ________________________________

73. The flag-raising on Mt. Suribachi on which Pacific island provided the backdrop for probably the most famous photograph of World War II? [166] ______________________________

74. This island battle, the most bitter of the Pacific war, cost the United States 80,000 casualties and the Japanese some 120,000. [168] _______________________

75. At this wartime conference, the new President Harry Truman informed Stalin in the vaguest of terms about American possession of the A-bomb. [179] ______________

76—80. The first atomic bomb to be used in warfare was dropped on which Japanese city on August 6, 1945? [182-83] __________________ Who was the pilot of the airplane? [182] _______________________________ The name of the airplane, named after the pilot’s mother. [182] ________________________ What was the name of the bomb? [182] ______________________ What was the approximate number of people immediately killed in the initial explosion? [183] _____________________

81. A second atomic bomb was dropped on August 9, 1945 on which Japanese city? [184] ______________________

82. The official surrender of Japan was signed on September 2, 1945 in Tokyo Harbor aboard which ship? [185] ________________________________

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