This Act initiated the first peacetime military draft in American history.
What is the Burke-Wadsworth Act?
100
At this conference the Big Three agreed on the creation of the United Nations.
What is the Yalta Conference?
100
In 1947, this program was implemented which allowed the government to now inquire into the political beliefs and associations of all federal employees.
What is the Employee Loyalty Program?
100
In this court case, the Supreme Court ruled that separate accommodations did not deprive Blacks of equal rights, as long as these accommodations were equal.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
100
President Lyndon B. Johnson renamed Kennedy's "New Frontier" this.
What is the "Great Society?"
200
This ship was sank by a German sub on October 31, 1941.
What is the USS Reuben James?
200
A top secret national defense policy premised on the belief that the USSR was committed to the spread of communism.
What is the NSC-68?
200
The purpose of this committee was to investigate any possible instance of Communist espionage.
What is HUAC?
200
This woman refused to give her seat on the bus to a white passenger.
Who is Rosa Parks?
200
On January 31, 1968, the Communist forces in Vietnam mounted a fierce assault on the soldiers in South Korea driving back the Americans. This event became known as...
What is the Tet Offensive?
300
This Act brought in the "cash and carry" policy.
What is the Neutrality Act of 1937?
300
These four nations split up Germany and Berlin into four sections.
What are the United States, France, Britain, and the USSR?
300
The capture of the Rosenbergs showed the US government that there were spy _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ operating in the United States.
What are networks?
300
The federal government had to send in this group to protect the "Little Rock Nine."
What is 101st Airborne?
300
This was one of Nixon's costliest mistakes in the election of 1960.
What is agreeing to debate JFK on TV.
400
In September of 1938, Hitler promised he wouldn't claim more territory.
What is the Munich Agreement?
400
This was Stalin's response to the creation of NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
400
This man single handedly made many Americans fear that their neighbors and co-workers were spies.
Who is Senator Joseph R. McCarthy?
400
This organization began organizing "freedom rides" in 1961.
What is the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)?
400
This was a series of projects to help Latin American countries stabilize and improve economically. The real purpose of this policy was to stop the leaning of Latin American countries toward communism.
What is the Alliance for Progress?
500
The three countries that made up the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis of power.
What are Germany, Italy, and Japan?
500
The ultimatum that General MacArthur gave China which later resulted in the firing of the General.
What is "Peace or be Attacked?"
500
When McCarthy went after this group, it led to his downfall.
What is the army?
500
This store became the site of the first "sit-in" as four black students refused to move.
What is the Woolworths store?
500
This event was Kennedy's plan to topple Fidel Castro's new government. It was a disaster and 1,00 exiles were captured by Castro.