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Pop Quiz: All About the '30s

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1.   1931. _________ invades Manchuria.
    China
    Japan
    USSR
    Britain

2.   1932. _____________________ is elected president of the United States.
    Herbert Hoover
    Franklin Roosevelt
    Woodrow Wilson
    Calvin Coolidge

3.   1933. __________________ becomes Chancellor of Germany.
    Count Hindenberg
    Adolph Hitler
    Irwin Rommel
    King Wilhelm II

4.   1935. Persia becomes ________ on the orders of Reza Shah Pahlavi.
    Kingdom of Iran
    Iran
    Republic of Iran
    Kingdom of Persia

5.   1936. _________________ launches a revolt in Spain with the help of Hitler and Mussolini.
    Franco
    Tito
    Hirohito
    Hemingway

6.   The Memorial Day Massacre leaves ten steel strikers dead in __________.
    Chicago
    Los Angeles
    Detroit
    Cleveland

7.   1938. _____________________, by H. G. Wells, is broadcast on radio.
    The Time Machine
    War of the World
    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
    The Jack Benny Show

8.   1939. __________________ informs President Roosevelt of the possibility of using uranium to initiate a nuclear chain reaction.
    Robert Oppenheimer
    Albert Einstein
    Werner Von Braun
    Eva Braun

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