Presidents & Leaders
This president created the New Deal in response to the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This U.S. policy aimed to stop the spread of communism around the world after World War II.
What is World War II?
This Supreme Court case declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The stock market crash of 1929 helped trigger this economic crisis.
What is the Great Depression?
This music genre became extremely popular in the 1950s with stars like Elvis Presley.
What is rock and roll?
This president ordered the use of atomic bombs against Japan in 1945.
Who is Harry Truman?
This Cold War crisis began after the Soviet Union placed nuclear missiles just 90 miles from Florida.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This civil rights leader promoted nonviolent protest and delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This program provided financial support to elderly Americans after it was created during the New Deal.
What is Social Security?
This 1969 music festival became a major symbol of the counterculture movement and hippie culture.
What is Woodstock?
This president was forced to resign after the Watergate scandal.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This conflict ended in an armistice at the 38th parallel rather than a peace treaty.
What is the Korean War?
This bus boycott began after Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat in Montgomery, Alabama.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This post–World War II legislation helped veterans pay for college and buy homes.
What is the GI Bill?
What are the first three words in the Constitution?
What is "We the People?"
This president launched the Great Society programs and signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This alliance of Western nations was formed in 1949 to resist Soviet expansion.
What is North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
his 1965 legislation aimed to protect African American voting rights, especially in the South.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This term describes the rapid population growth in the United States after World War II.
What is the Baby Boom?
This movement of the 1960s rejected traditional social norms and often protested the Vietnam War.
What is the counterculture movement?
This president started his own political party called the Bull-Moose Party.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
America and its allies fought against this alliance during WWII?
What is the Axis Powers?
This group, founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, promoted Black Power and community self-defense.
What is the Black Panther Party?
This 1970s economic problem combined high inflation with slow economic growth and unemployment.
What is stagflation?
These two inventors are credited with building and flying the first successful airplane in 1903.
Who are Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright? (I'll take the Wright brothers).