WWII
WWII
Cold War/Civil Rights
Civil Rights/1970s
Contemporary Issues
100
This was the event that brought the U.S. into WWII.
What is the bombing at Pearl Harbor?
100
This is the event that marks the official beginning of WWII.
What is the German invasion of Poland in 1939?
100
This term describes the U.S.-Soviet Relationship after WWII.
What is the Cold War?
100
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS (1954) overturned this prior Supreme Court decision.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
100
This man was suspected to have masterminded the 9/11 terrorist attack.
Who is Osama Bin Laden?
200
The GI Bill provided this.
What is money for college, help finding work, unemployment benefits, and loans to buy homes, farms, and businesses for war veterans?
200
This was the name of the secret program to build an atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
200
The arrest of Rosa Parks in Montgomery, AL lead to a boycott of this.
What is the bus system.
200
This was declared unconstitutional by Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS.
What is segregation in public schools?
200
These two countries were invaded in the years following the 9/11 attacks.
What is Afghanistan and Iraq?
300
This Native American nation provided "code talkers" for the U.S. military during WWII.
What is the Navajo Nation?
300
These men were the leaders of the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and Germany in WWII.
Who is Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Adolph Hitler?
300
This term describes the idea that if one country falls to communism, its neighboring countries will also fall.
What is domino theory?
300
What was the result of the Watergate scandal?
What is the resignation of Richard Nixon?
300
This was signified by the fall of the Berlin Wall.
What is the Cold War coming to an end?
400
This term describes the United States war strategy at the beginning of WWII (prior to Pearl Harbor).
What is isolationism?
400
This term best describes the United States' strategy for defeating Japan in the Pacific.
What is island hopping?
400
This was the goal of "Freedom Riders" in the early 1960s.
What is the desegregation of bus stations?
400
This man took the presidency after Richard Nixon's resignation.
Who is Gerald Ford?
400
These two terms refer to Reagan's approach to economics.
What is supply-side economics and Reaganomics?
500
This Lend-Lease Act did this.
What is the United States would loan weapons to all Allied countries in exchange for leases on all British naval bases?
500
American racial prejudice and animosity led to this act after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
What is the internment of over 100,000 Japanese Americans?
500
This was prohibited by the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
What is discrimination based on race, gender, religion, or national origin?
500
This term refers to a way of life that different from most Americans. It was popularized in the 1960s.
What is counterculture?
500
This was the reason why President Bill Clinton was impeached.
What is perjury and obstruction of justice?
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