New Deal, WWII & Cold War to Today
FDR declared this temporary closure to stabilize the banks.
What is the bank holiday? (Or: What is the Emergency Banking Act?)
The first U.S. constitution was weak and gave too much power to the states.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Inventors like Edison and Bell helped expand these new types of technologies.
What are communication and electrical technologies?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire were part of this WWI alliance.
What are the Central Powers?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. organized this 1955 event after Rosa Parks’ arrest.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
The 1941 attack that brought the U.S. into World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This 1803 purchase doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
These overcrowded, unsafe apartment buildings housed many urban poor families.
What are tenements?
These strict papers controlled what Americans could purchase during WWII.
What are rationing coupons?
This law in 1964 banned discrimination based on race, color, religion, or gender.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This Cold War fear led to violations of civil liberties in the 1950s.
What are the Red Scare and McCarthyism?
This idea said it was America’s destiny to expand westward to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Upton Sinclair exposed meatpacking industry horrors in this 1906 book.
What is The Jungle?
The U.S. program that supplied Allies with weapons before joining WWII.
What is Lend-Lease?
This 1970s scandal involved a break-in and led to President Nixon’s resignation.
What is Watergate?
This event brought the U.S. and USSR to the brink of nuclear war in 1962.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This 1823 policy warned European powers not to colonize in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This law required honest ingredient labels on food and medicine.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
The U.S. foreign policy after WWII that offered money to rebuild Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This U.S. technology boom in the 1990s led to major changes in communication.
What is the rise of the Internet?
After September 11th, the U.S. passed this law, created Homeland Security, and worked to overthrow this group in Afghanistan.
What is the Patriot Act, the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, and the overthrow of the Taliban?
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
What is the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
Teddy Roosevelt’s domestic agenda focused on breaking up monopolies with this nickname.
What is the Square Deal?
This U.S. strategy during the Cold War aimed to stop communism from spreading.
What is containment?
After 9/11, the U.S. sent troops to this country to fight al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
What is Afghanistan?