WAR!!!
The US's involvement in these two conflicts can be summarized as messy attempts to thwart the spread of communism in Asia
What are Korea and Vietnam?
This term was given to a decade defined by mass consumerism and a shift towards liberal thinking and escapist recreational activities
What is the Roaring Twenties?
FDR gave these series of talks during the Great Depression to inform and encourage the American public
This was the name given to the period of the 1950s where Americans were afraid of a network of Soviet spies in the US government
What is the Red Scare?
For the first couple years of both World War I and World War II, the US attempted to take this official stance towards the combatants
What is neutral / neutrality?
This was the name given to the years-long experiment to build the first functional atomic weapon
What is the Manhattan Project?
This highly publicized trial in Tennessee in 1925, although legally about teaching of evolution in schools, was really about contrasting modernist vs traditional Biblical schools of thought
What is the Scopes "Monkey" Trial?
Excessive stock market speculation is the prime cause of this decade-long economic slump
What is the Great Depression?
This Wisconsin senator went on a one-man mission to root out supposed communists in the US government in the early 1950s
Who was Joseph McCarthy?
The brainchild of US President Woodrow Wilson, this superhero team-up was accepted by many overseas nations but ironically not by the US itself
What is the League of Nations?
The US remained neutral for two years after Germany invaded Poland in this year, sparking World War II
What is 1939?
These "laws" were established in the South following the Civil War to enforce racial segregation and discrimination
What are "Jim Crow" laws?
This Act in 1935 established unemployment insurance and pensions for the elderly (still around today)
What is the Social Security Act?
The name given to this series of events in the 1960s was arguably not about reaching the moon itself, but about proving the superiority of American capitalism over Soviet socialism
What is the Space Race?
This decade arguably reached a low point for US trust in its government after a failed war, presidential corruption, and a terrible economy
What is the 1970s?
The 9/11 attacks were orchestrated by this man as head of this organization
What are Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda?
The Brown v Board of Education case in 1954 effectively ended this
What is segregation in public schools?
In his inaugural address, FDR famously stated that "the only thing we have to fear is" -
What is fear itself?
This term was coined by President Eisenhower in his farewell address, warning the American people of the danger of a built-up armament industry in the US
What is the military-industrial complex?
One of the issues with European world leaders fighting each other over territory in World War I is that most of them were descended from which English monarch?
Who is Queen Victoria?
The US gained the Philippines, Guam, and this island as a result of the Spanish-American War
What is Guam?
This term was given to journalists who intentionally exaggerated and/or invented news headlines to push governmental and social reform
What is muckraker?
What is World War II?
While the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 signified a symbolic end to the Cold War, it technically ended in this year after the Soviet Union imploded
What is 1991?
Teddy Roosevelt is known for this phrase to describe US foreign policy
What is "speak softly, but carry a big stick"?