HISTORY CHALLENGE

Topics: background and causes, first days of the war, leaders, new methods of warfare, life in the trenches, major battles, U.

Topics: background, blitzkrieg, leaders, Pearl Harbor, the soldier’s life, major battles, women, home fronts, strange-but-true incidents, the atomic bomb, and the war’s aftermath.

Topics: the antislavery movement, women’s rights, education, prisons and asylums, the temperance crusade, child labor, labor unions, political reforms, conservation, the New Deal, civil rights, and other social reforms (mainly Jacob Riis and Jane Addams).

Topics: background and causes, advantages of each side, first battles, the leaders, the soldier’s life, the home fronts, innovations, unusual facts (youthful, foreign, and female soldiers), African Americans, hospitals and prisons, and the aftermath.

By Bruce Frazee and William Guardia.

Topics: family life and customs, homes, clothing, food and drink, fun and amusements, religion and education, classes and occupations, travel and communication, health and medicine, relations with Native Americans, and life on the frontier.

Topics: getting there, homes, food and clothing, tasks and chores, dangers and hardships, frontier schools, fun and amusements, justice, towns, heroes and heroines, and Native Americans.

By Jeanne Cheyney and Arnold Cheyney.

The 190 brainteasers in this book provide daily challenge questions to reinforce history lessons.