Great Depression and FDR
The ____ _____ is where brokers and traders can buy and sell stocks.
What is the stock market?
Which surprise attack caused the U.S. to join WW2?
What is Pearl Harbor?
The U.S.S.R. had this type of economic system.
What is communism?
This lady refused to give up her seat on a bus.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This break in at this hotel led to the only resignation of a U.S. President?
What is the Watergate Hotel?
any Canadians and Americans did not actually have much money to invest, so they started borrowing money from stock brokers and banks to buy more stocks. This is called ____________.
What is buying on margin?
This is the name of the U.S. President throughout the beginining of WW2?
Who is FDR?
The United States had the policy of __________ towards communism and did not want it to spread.
What is containment?
What Civil rights leader stated violence is pointless and to achieve equality blacks should not use violence. He stated that if a law was unjust blacks should be morally obligated to not follow it but accept the consequences.
Who is Martin Luther King Junior?
What is three-mile island?
What is the name for the relief, reform, and recovery programs put forth by president FDR?
What is the New Deal?
This is the battle where Allied Powers landed forces in Europe in an amphibious assault.
What is D-Day?
DAILY DOUBLE: These two countries were proxy wars during the Cold War.
Where are Korea and Vietnam?
What document states “All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
These building were attacked on 9/11/2001?
What were the World Trade Centers?
This major event followed the Great Depression.
This is the tactic used in the pacific against Japan that involved moving from land mass to land mass in the pacific?
What is Island Hopping?
This is the name of the herbicide used in Vietnam to kill the trees and foliage.
What is Agent Orange?
What law was signed by President Lyndon Johnson prohibiting discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion or national origin?
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
N.A.F.T.A. stands for?
What is the North American Trade Agreement?
Huge dust storms blew across the Prairies
What is the Dust Bowl?
This is the name of the secret project to develop nuclear weapons by the U.S. during WW2?
What is the Manhattan Project?
What was the turning point in the Cold War that would have the USSR losing?
What is the Fall of the Berlin wall?
In 1954, the Brown v. Board of Education case determined that?
What is segregation in public schools was illegal?
52 Americans were held hostage by anti-American Muslim extremists in this Middle Eastern country for 444 days and freed on January 20, 1981, when Ronald Reagan was inaugurated as President of the United States.
What is Iran?