THE GREAT DEPRESSION & WORLD WAR II
COLD WAR AMERICA
CIVIL RIGHTS & SOCIAL CHANGE
PRESIDENTS & POLITICS
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & CULTURE
100

This stock market crash in October 1929 helped trigger the Great Depression and named

Black Tuesday

100

This doctrine pledged American support to countries resisting communism

The Truman Doctrine

100

This 1954 Supreme Court decision declared school segregation unconstitutional.

Brown v. Board of Education

100

He was the only president elected to four terms.

FDR

100

This Apollo mission landed the first humans on the Moon.

Apollo 11

200

Franklin Roosevelt's series of economic recovery programs was collectively known by this name.

The New Deal

200

Senator Joseph McCarthy gave his name to this anti-communist phenomenon

McCarthyism

200

Rosa Parks' actions sparked a bus boycott in this Alabama city

Montgomery

200

This president resigned in 1974.

Nixon

200

This California region became synonymous with the computer industry.

Silicon Valley

300

This surprise attack brought the U.S. into World War II.

Pearl Harbor

300

This 1962 confrontation brought the U.S. and Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war

The Cuban Missile Crisis

300

Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech during this 1963 event.

March on Washington

300

This president famously challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall."

Reagan

300

In 1981, IBM introduced this type of machine, abbreviated PC

The PC

400

his 1944 program provided education and housing benefits to returning veterans.

The G.I. Bill

400

President Reagan proposed this missile defense system, nicknamed "Star Wars."

Strategic Defense Initiative

400

This 1965 law prohibited voting discrimination

The Voting Rights Act

400

This president declared a "War on Poverty" as part of the Great Society.

Lyndon B Johnson

400

Daily Double

This military research network evolved into the modern Internet.

APARNET

Advanced Research Projects Agency Network

500

The code name for the Allied invasion of Normandy was this operation.

Operation Overlord

500

This wall's fall in 1989 symbolized the end of Soviet domination in Eastern Europe.

The Berlin Wall

500

This 1969 event is often regarded as the beginning of the modern LGBTQ rights movement.

The Stonewall Riots

500

This 1972 break-in eventually led to congressional hearings and a presidential resignation.

Watergate

500

This smartphone, introduced in 2007, revolutionized mobile computing

iPhone

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