70s/80s
He pardoned Richard Nixon.
Who is Gerald Ford?
This provided $3.3 billion in spending on public works projects.
What is the National Industrial Recovery Act?
The Supreme Court rule in this case that "separate but equal" was unconstitutional
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The Allies landed here on D-Day.
Where is France?
Truman's program for the economic recovery of Europe.
What is the Marshall plan?
This revealed that the Kennedy and Johnson administration had deceived the public in regard to Vietnam war policy.
What are the Pentagon Papers?
This program provided jobs for young men working on construction projects outdoors
What is the CCC?
This protest tactic did black students in Greensboro, North Carolina initiate.
What is a sit-in?
This event brought America into World War 2.
What is Pearl Harbor?
He was found guilty of leading a Soviet spy ring that helped pass nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union.
Who was Julius Rosenberg.
This prohibited educational programs or activities receiving federal financial assistance from showing gender discrimination.
What is Title IX?
The generation of electricity for a poor region of the country was the major purpose of this.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
He wrote Letters from Birmingham Jail.
Who is MLK Jr.
He was President when America entered World War 2.
FDR
He became President after Harry Truman.
Whos is Eisenhower?
Journalists nicknamed Reagan’s economic plan “Reaganomics.” This was the technical term for it.
What is supply-side economics?
FDR's plan to deal with the Supreme Court's opposition to his programs.
What is court packing?
He called for a more violent confrontation to white society during the civil rights movement.
Who is Malcolm X?
He ordered the dropping of the nuclear bombs on Japan.
This was the failed invasion of Cuba.
What was the Bay of Pigs?
He won the 1976 Presidential Election.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
Harry Truman wanted to _____ FDR's New Deal programs?
What is "expand"?
MLK attempted to lead marchers across the Pettus Bridge to protest voting rights in this city.
What is Selma?
This was the name of the project to develop the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
In this Alger Hiss case, Hiss was found guilty of this.
Perjury