People
Which general led U.S. forces in Northern Africa and Europe and later became president of the U.S.?
Dwight Eisenhower
Allied troops landed on the coast of Normandy, France on June 6, 1944. What is this day known as?
Which of the following gave the federal government power to force local officials to let African Americans register to vote?
Where did the United States drop the first atomic bomb?
Which agreement allowed Hitler to invade Poland without fear that the Soviet Union would stop him?
Soviet-German Nonaggression Pact
Whose defiance of segregation led to a city bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama?
Rosa Parks
During the war, the Nazis killed as many as 6 million Jews. What has this become known as?
Holocaust
This supreme court case ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the Constitution so long as the facilities for each were "separate but equal"
Plessy v Ferguson
Which famous Civil Rights leader gave the famous I Have a Dream speech?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Veterans who marched on Washington D.C. demanding payment were called the...?
Bonus Army
Who was charged with assassinating President Kennedy?
Lee Harvey Oswald
Which word refers to peacefully refusing to obey laws considered unjust?
civil disobedience
Landmark Supreme Court ruling that stated state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional.
Brown v Board of Education
The Confederate victory at _______________________ convinced the North that this would be a long and costly war.
Bull Run
The Populist Party wanted to replace the country’s gold-based currency system with _____________.
free silver
Who was the first female Supreme Court Justice?
Sandra Day O'Connor
Which of these was a philosophy based on racial pride?
Black Power
Landmark Supreme Court decision that said the Constitution did not extend African Americans citizenship and therefore could not enjoy rights of American citizens.
Dred Scott v Sandford
The Battle of ____________________ was the bloodiest single day of fighting in the Civil War.
Antietam
Before the Civil War, there was growing ___________________________ as loyalty became divided along regional lines between the North and the South.
sectionalism
______________________ was a prominent abolitionist who helped convince Abraham Lincoln to make the Civil War about slavery.
Frederick Douglass
What was Lyndon B. Johnson’s plan for the U.S. called?
"Great Society"
Cuba became a protectorate of the United States when the _______________ was passed.
Platt Amendment
______________ was the leader of the Lakota Sioux who refused to sell the Black Hills of the Dakotas.
Sitting Bull
States that still held slaves but decided to join the Union were called ___________________.
border states