Great Depression
What were the main causes of the Great Depression?
What are the stock market crash, bank failures, high tariffs, and uneven wealth distribution?
What was the turning point in the Pacific where the U.S. defeated the Japanese navy?
What is the Battle of Midway?
What U.S. policy aimed to stop the spread of communism around the world?
What is containment?
What 1954 Supreme Court case declared that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional?
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
What was the name of the scandal that led to President Nixon’s resignation in 1974?
What is the Watergate scandal?
How did President Hoover initially respond to the Great Depression?
What is he believed in limited government help and encouraged voluntary action?
What organization was created after WWII to promote peace and prevent future wars?
What is the United Nations?
What 1947 policy promised U.S. aid to countries resisting communism, beginning with Greece and Turkey?
What is the Truman Doctrine?
What event from 1955–1956 began when African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama?
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
What controversial decision did Gerald Ford make early in his presidency?
What is pardoning Richard Nixon?
What were the 3 R’s of the New Deal?
What are Relief, Recovery, and Reform?
What was D-Day and why was it significant?
What is the Allied invasion of Normandy, opening a Western front in Europe?
What U.S. plan gave billions in aid to rebuild European economies after WWII to prevent communism?
What is the Marshall Plan?
What group of African American students integrated Central High School in Arkansas in 1957, facing violent opposition?
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
What economic problems did Carter face during his presidency?
What are inflation, high unemployment, and an energy crisis?
What was the Social Security Act of 1935?
What is a law that provided pensions for the elderly, unemployed, and disabled?
What conference involved Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin to plan postwar Europe?
What is the Yalta Conference?
What Asian war from 1950–1953 involved U.S. troops fighting to stop communism from spreading south of the 38th parallel?
What is the Korean War?
Which civil rights leader promoted Black empowerment and believed in self-defense “by any means necessary”?
Who is Malcolm X?
What major international crisis happened during Carter’s presidency in 1979?
What is the Iran Hostage Crisis?
How did the New Deal change the role of the federal government?
What is it expanded government involvement in the economy and welfare?
How did WWII contribute to the rise of the Cold War?
What is tension between the U.S. and USSR over Europe, communism, and nuclear weapons?
What U.S. agency was created in response to the Soviet space launch?
What is NASA?
What law ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination in 1964?
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
What were Reagan’s policies toward taxes?
Reagan cut taxes and wanted less government intervention over businesses.