Great Depression and New Deal
This event in October 1929 is often considered the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is the Black Tuesday/the Stock Market Crash?
This surprise attack brought the United States into World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
The Cold War was primarily a conflict between the United States and this nation.
What is the Soviet Union (USSR)? (Would also accept Russia)
This Supreme Court case declared segregated public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This law helped returning WWII veterans pay for college and buy homes.
What is the GI Bill?
This is one cause of the Great Depression other than the stock market crash. (Several possible answers)
What is buying on credit/margin, bank failures/runs/panics, or the Smoot-Hawley Tariff.
This president authorized the use of atomic bombs against Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Who is Harry Truman?
This policy aimed to stop the spread of communism around the world.
What is Containment?
What is Arkansas?
Another name for this economic theory is "Reaganomics" (two possible answers).
What is Supply-Side Economics or Trickle-Down Economics?
This New Deal program hired young men to work on conservation and environmental projects.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
This fictional, female wartime icon seen in famous propaganda posters encouraged women to work in factories and shipyards.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
This massive U.S. aid program helped rebuild Western Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This method of protest involved peacefully breaking laws considered unjust.
What is civil disobedience?
This set of domestic programs was Lyndon Johnson's effort to eliminate poverty and expand opportunity.
What is the Great Society?
Many historians argue that despite New Deal successes, this global event was ultimately responsible for ending the Great Depression.
What is WWII?
Before entering WWII, the United States sold supplies to Allied nations through these TWO policies (must name both!).
What are Cash-and-Carry and Lend-Lease?
This senator became famous for making accusations of communist infiltration without sufficient evidence.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
This landmark law outlawed discrimination in public accommodations and employment.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This movement was primarily about challenging gender roles, expanding reproductive rights, and ensuring workplace equality.
What is Second-Wave Feminism OR the Women's Liberation Movement?
This category (of the "three R's") of New Deal programs aimed to get money in people's pockets quickly, but did not create lasting changes.
What is Relief?
The internment of Japanese Americans was caused by the passage of this law made by the president.
What is Executive Order 9066?
The collapse of this physical structure in 1989 became a powerful symbol of the Cold War's end.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This Mississippi activist challenged the Democratic Party at the 1964 Democratic National Convention and became a leading advocate for voting rights.
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer?
This labor program brought hundreds of thousands of Mexican workers to the United States during WWII to address labor shortages.
What is the Bracero Program?