This amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This alliance included Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II.
What is the Axis Powers?
This student-led group organized sit-ins and other nonviolent protests during the Civil Rights Movement.
What is SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)?
This agreement between the United States, Canada, and Mexico reduced trade barriers in the 1990s.
What is NAFTA?
This amendment limited presidents to two elected terms.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
This invention by Henry Ford made cars affordable for many Americans.
What is the assembly line?
This conference in 1945 divided Germany into occupation zones and increased tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II.
What is the Yalta Conference?
This event in 1963 involved more than 200,000 people gathering in Washington, D.C. to support civil rights and jobs for African Americans.
What is the March on Washington?
This president resigned before he could be impeached.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This Supreme Court case established the principle of “separate but equal” before later being overturned.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This trial symbolized the conflict between traditional religious values and modern science in the 1920s.
What is the Scopes Trial?
This doctrine promised U.S. support to countries fighting communism after World War II.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This resolution gave President Lyndon Johnson broad powers to increase U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
This policy under Ronald Reagan focused on lowering taxes and reducing government regulation.
What is Reaganomics?
This event in 1979 involved American hostages being held in Iran for 444 days.
What is the Iran Hostage Crisis?
This government program insured bank deposits and helped restore confidence in banks during the Great Depression.
What is the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)?
This airlift supplied food and fuel to West Berlin after the Soviet Union blockaded the city in 1948.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This 1968 offensive by North Vietnamese forces shocked Americans and weakened support for the Vietnam War.
What is the Tet Offensive?
This military operation launched after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990.
What is Operation Desert Storm (the Persian Gulf War)?
This Supreme Court case ruled that the president could not use executive privilege to withhold evidence during the Watergate investigation.
What is United States v. Nixon?
Many critics argued that this New Deal program was unconstitutional because it gave the federal government too much control over business practices and wages.
What is the National Recovery Administration (NRA)?
This senator claimed to have lists of communists in the U.S. government, beginning a period of intense anti-communist fear in the 1950s.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
During the Civil Rights Movement, this law suspended literacy tests and authorized federal oversight of voter registration in areas where discrimination had prevented African Americans from voting.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This law, passed after the September 11 attacks, expanded the government’s surveillance powers to combat terrorism.
What is the USA PATRIOT Act?
This economic program of the 1930s was criticized because the government paid farmers to reduce crop production while many Americans were still hungry during the Great Depression.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?