WWI
This secret January 1917 message from Germany to Mexico proposed a military alliance against the United States, serving as the immediate cause for America to join WWI.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
To buy expensive new goods like automobiles and radios, 1920s consumers heavily relied on this "buy now, pay later" financial arrangement.
What is credit?
President Franklin D. Roosevelt labeled this surprise air attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet as "a date which will live in infamy".
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
This strategic U.S. foreign policy was strictly centered on halting the geopolitical expansion and spread of Communism across the globe.
What is containment?
In 1954, this landmark Supreme Court case unanimously ruled that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal," overturning school segregation.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The spark that officially started World War I on June 28, 1914, was the assassination of this Archduke of Austria-Hungary.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
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Triggered by a massive drop in stock prices, the catastrophic crash of the stock market occurred on this exact date.
What is October 29th, 1929?
Led by Germany, Italy, and Japan, this was the official name of the military alliance that fought against the Allies in World War II.
What were the Axis Powers?
This concrete barrier, built by the Soviet Union in 1961, stood for decades as a physical and ideological symbol of a divided Europe.
What is the Berlin Wall?
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his legendary "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial during this massive 1963 political rally.
What was the March on Washington?
This defensive style of warfare involved soldiers digging deep networks of ditches to protect themselves from machine guns, poison gas, and tanks.
What is trench warfare?
This dynamic cultural, literary, and artistic "rebirth" of African American culture flourished in New York City's Harlem neighborhood during the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Executed on June 6, 1944, this massive Allied amphibious invasion of Normandy, France, successfully forced Germany to fight a war on two fronts.
What is D-Day?
This terrifying 1962 geopolitical standoff marked the closest the United States and the Soviet Union ever came to engaging in a direct nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This NAACP lawyer successfully argued the Brown v. Board case and later made history as the very first Black Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Designed by President Woodrow Wilson, this blueprint aimed to establish a fair and lasting global peace following the end of the war.
What are the Fourteen Points?
This nickname was given to the young women of the 1920s who defied traditional social norms by wearing short dresses, cutting their hair, and wearing makeup.
What are flappers?
This highly controversial executive order signed by FDR forced over 110,000 Japanese Americans into isolated internment camps due to fear and prejudice.
What is Executive Order 9066?
The U.S. entered the Vietnam War due to this theory, which asserted that if one Asian nation fell to Communism, its neighboring countries would inevitably follow.
What is the Domino Theory?
This monumental piece of federal legislation effectively destroyed Southern "Jim Crow" laws by outlawing discrimination in public places and employment.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Unlike Wilson's peaceful vision, this official peace treaty ended WWI by forcing Germany to accept total blame and pay massive financial reparations.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This devastating environmental disaster plagued the American Midwest with massive dust storms and severe droughts, leaving farmland completely unusable.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This top-secret scientific enterprise was launched by the United States government to successfully design and build the world's first atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This political term describes the 1950s Red Scare practice of making reckless, unsupported accusations of treason and communist spying without real evidence.
What is McCarthyism?
These civil rights activists bravely boarded interstate buses into the deep South to directly challenge illegal segregation in bus terminals.
Who are the Freedom Riders?