A statistic which expresses the percentage of a country's labor force (available workers) who do not have jobs at a specified time.
What is the Unemployment Rate?
100
Giving in to a party's demands to avoid conflict with that party. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has historically been criticized for this.
What is Appeasement?
100
The two superpowers who competed for global influence in the four and a half decades immediately following the Second World War.
What are the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics aka the USSR aka the Soviet Union?
100
A type of activism practiced by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. whereby participants work to achieve their goals without the use of violence.
What is Nonviolent Resistance?
100
What genre of music was pioneered and popularized by Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and other artists in the 1950s?
What is Rock n' Roll?
200
An event caused in part by extreme speculation which artificially raised stock prices well beyond their actual value. This event marked the beginning of the Great Depression.
What was the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
200
1941 event which caused the United States to declare war on the Empire of Japan and their allies Nazi Germany.
What is the Bombing of Pearl Harbor?
200
Arguably the most tense moment of the Cold War, when mutual nuclear annihilation seemed imminent.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)?
200
A significant piece of civil rights legislation which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, and religion in employment, education, and access to public facilities
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
200
Irradiated particles which descend slowly to the ground after being thrust into the air by nuclear explosions. Shelters were built throughout the Cold War to help people protect themselves from this in case of a nuclear explosion.
What is nuclear fallout?
300
A mass, panic-driven attempt to withdraw money from a financial institution for fear of that institution's inviability or imminent collapse. Ironically, this is often the proximate cause of the collapses which people seek to avoid.
What is a Bank Run?
300
A political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
What is Fascism?
300
A war-prevention defense theory which formed the basis of both the NATO alliance system and the Warsaw Pact alliance system whereby an attack on one member of an alliance constituted an attack on every member of the alliance. In theory, this would deter countries from attacking initially, thus preventing war.
What is Collective Security?
300
The first black Congresswoman in the United States, who, as she herself put it, was a black woman who lived in the 20th century and dared to be herself.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
300
A period of terrible natural disasters during the Great Depression caused by severe drought and wind erosion in the Great Plains.
What was the Dust Bowl?
400
Crudely constructed shanty towns built by homeless people during the Great Depression. Named after the person who was largely (and unfairly) blamed for causing the Great Depression.
What were Hoovervilles?
400
The first group of African American military pilots. They are named after the base in Alabama where they trained.
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
400
US foreign policy regarding communism after the Second World War. Based on the idea that the United States would not let Soviet communism spread to parts of the world where it did not already exist.
What is Containment?
400
The Supreme Court case which reversed Plessy v. Ferguson and led to the outlawing of racial segregation in schools.
What is Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
400
The largest concrete structure in the world at the time of its construction. It generates power for utility companies in Nevada, Arizona, and California.
What is the Hoover Dam?
500
A man who was Louisiana's governor as well as it's US Senator towards the end of his life. Argued that there should not be extremely poor people or extremely rich people in the United States, but rather incomes should be capped at a point and everybody should be guaranteed a house, a car, and a radio?
Who was Huey Long aka The Kingfish?
500
A type of conflict where restrictions are not placed upon weapons used, combatants involved, or resources consumed, but instead victory is sought at any cost.
What is total war?
500
A category of long-range projectiles capable of carrying a nuclear warhead very long distances. Worries about this category of projectile were sparked by the launch of the Soviet satellite "Sputnik."
What are Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles or ICBMs?
500
The man who organized the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom where MLK gave his famous "I Have A Dream" speech.
Who is Bayard Rustin?
500
One of the more prominent members of the so-called "Beat Generation," his strongly held belief in the power of peace and love, his spiritual attitude toward drug use, and his embracing of eastern thought made him a pioneer of the hippie movement which would emerge in the 1960s.