Cold War
This term described the policy of stopping the spread of communism.
What is containment?
This amendment granted women the right to vote.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution?
The attack on this U.S. naval base brought America into WWII.
What is Attack on Pearl Harbor?
This event in 1929 triggered the Great Depression.
What was the stock market crash?
This Supreme Court case declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What was Brown v. Board of Education?
This “curtain” divided democratic Western Europe from communist Eastern Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
This amendment established a federal income tax.
What is the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution?
This was Wilson’s plan for peace after WWI.
What were the Fourteen Points?
This president created the New Deal programs.
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This boycott began after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus.
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
These two nations emerged as superpowers after WWII.
What are the United States and the Soviet Union?
This amendment allowed the direct election of senators.
What is the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution?
This military strategy involved capturing islands one at a time in the Pacific during WWII.
What is island hopping?
The New Deal focused on these three goals: relief, recovery, and this final “R.”
What is reform?
This 1964 law banned segregation in public places and employment discrimination.
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This U.S. program provided economic aid to help rebuild Western Europe after WWII.
What was the Marshall Plan?
Journalists during the Progressive Era who exposed corruption and unsafe conditions were called these.
What are muckrakers?
This policy involved giving concessions to aggressive nations to avoid war before WWII.
What is appeasement?
This Louisiana politician argued the New Deal did not go far enough in redistributing wealth.
Who was Huey Long?
This civil rights leader promoted nonviolent protest and direct action.
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?
These conflicts involved the U.S. and USSR supporting opposite sides instead of fighting directly.
What are proxy wars?
This 1920s court case symbolized the conflict between science and religion over evolution.
What was the Scopes Trial?
These two Japanese cities were devastated by atomic bombs in 1945.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Many Americans supported isolationism in the 1930s because of economic hardship and memories of this earlier war.
What was World War I?
This crisis involved nine African American students integrating a high school in Arkansas.
What was the Little Rock Crisis?