THE GREAT DEPRESSION & WORLD WAR II
This stock market crash in October 1929 helped trigger the Great Depression and named
Black Tuesday
This doctrine pledged American support to countries resisting communism
The Truman Doctrine
This 1954 Supreme Court decision declared school segregation unconstitutional.
Brown v. Board of Education
He was the only president elected to four terms.
FDR
This Apollo mission landed the first humans on the Moon.
Apollo 11
Franklin Roosevelt's series of economic recovery programs was collectively known by this name.
The New Deal
Senator Joseph McCarthy gave his name to this anti-communist phenomenon
McCarthyism
Rosa Parks' actions sparked a bus boycott in this Alabama city
Montgomery
This president resigned in 1974.
Nixon
This California region became synonymous with the computer industry.
Silicon Valley
This surprise attack brought the U.S. into World War II.
Pearl Harbor
This 1962 confrontation brought the U.S. and Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech during this 1963 event.
March on Washington
This president famously challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall."
Reagan
In 1981, IBM introduced this type of machine, abbreviated PC
The PC
his 1944 program provided education and housing benefits to returning veterans.
The G.I. Bill
President Reagan proposed this missile defense system, nicknamed "Star Wars."
Strategic Defense Initiative
This 1965 law prohibited voting discrimination
The Voting Rights Act
This president declared a "War on Poverty" as part of the Great Society.
Lyndon B Johnson
Daily Double
This military research network evolved into the modern Internet.
APARNET
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
The code name for the Allied invasion of Normandy was this operation.
Operation Overlord
This wall's fall in 1989 symbolized the end of Soviet domination in Eastern Europe.
The Berlin Wall
This 1969 event is often regarded as the beginning of the modern LGBTQ rights movement.
The Stonewall Riots
This 1972 break-in eventually led to congressional hearings and a presidential resignation.
Watergate
This smartphone, introduced in 2007, revolutionized mobile computing
iPhone