World War II
This surprise military attack in December 1941 forced the United States to enter World War II
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
This civil rights icon refused to give up her bus seat, sparking a major protest in Montgomery
Who is Rosa Parks?
The Cold War moment when the world came closest to nuclear conflict
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Economic crisis of the 1930s that preceded World War II
What is the Great Depression?
President who implemented the New Deal and led the U.S. during most of World War II
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
During the war, women significantly contributed to the national effort by doing THIS in factories
What is working/manufacturing/producing war materials?
Supreme Court case that overturned "separate but equal" and desegregated public schools
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Economic aid program designed to strengthen Western European nations against communism
What is the Marshall Plan?
The region most devastated by dust storms during the 1930s
What are the Great Plains?
Political scandal that led to President Nixon's resignation
What is the Watergate scandal?
The reason President Truman gave for using the atomic bomb on Japan
What is to end the war quickly and save American lives?
Martin Luther King Jr.'s primary method of challenging racial segregation
What is civil disobedience?
The primary U.S. justification for military involvement in Vietnam
What is stopping the expansion of communism?
New Deal program providing financial security for unemployed and retired workers
What is Social Security?
Post-9/11 act that restricted civil liberties during wartime
What is the USA Patriot Act?
This 1940 program allowed the U.S. to provide war materials to Allied powers without officially entering the war
What is the Lend-Lease program?
The first historical document specifically proposing equal rights for American women
What is the Seneca Falls Declaration?
The event that primarily signaled the end of the Cold War
What is the breakup of the Soviet Union?
Demographic trend showing increasing diversity in the U.S. population
What is immigration and changing population demographics?
A Supreme Court case establishing the principle of judicial review
What is Marbury v. Madison?
The term for the Nazis' systematic murder of Jews and other groups during World War II
What is the Holocaust?
Organization founded in 1909 to advance the rights of Black Americans
What is the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)?
Military alliance formed to contain Soviet influence in Europe
What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
Different immigrant groups that contributed to U.S. cultural diversity
What are Atlantic slave trade, Irish immigration, Asian and Latin American immigration?
Government response to wartime product shortages
What is rationing?