Economy
Civil Rights
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War and Foreign Policy
People
100
This is the common term for the body of economic relief programs enacted by FDR to combat the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal.
100
This is the form of protest and direct action espoused by numerous Civil Rights leaders, most prominently Martin Luther King, Jr. to combat white supremacy and racial segregation.
What is Non-Violent Civil Disobedience.
100
The student protest movement grew immensely in the 1960s in response to this war.
What is the Vietnam War.
100
The process by which the Unites States Government targeted a certain population as potentially subversive and dangerous during World War II, forcing them into concentration camps.
What is Japanese Internment.
100
This U.S. President led the United States through most of the Great Depression and World War II, and is best known for large-scale domestic relief programs.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt, or FDR.
200
This man-made environmental disaster resulted from over production, particularly in the Midwest and the Plains, and contributed greatly to economic and social dislocation of the Great Depression.
What is the Dustbowl.
200
This 1954 Supreme Court Case overturned segregation based on the principal of separate but equal.
What is Brown v. Board of Education.
200
This movement embodied the more radical "second wave" of Feminism in the 1960s, focusing on reproductive issues, social inequality, and deconstructing gender norms.
What is the Women's Liberation Movement.
200
This is the type of warfare adopted by anti-imperialist armies, insurgents, and irregular fighters, and was utilized by the United States' enemies in wars like the Philippine War, the Vietnam War, and the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars.
What is Guerrilla Warfare.
200
This fourteen year old African-American boy from Chicago was brutally murdered in Mississippi in August, 1955, sparking a public discourse on the violence of southern White Supremacy.
Who is Emmett Till.
300
This is the popular term for supply-side economics or "trickle-down economics" in the 1980s that dismantled many federal programs and the social safety net, ultimately resulting in growing wealth disparity and an economic recession in 1982.
What is Reaganomics.
300
This civil rights organization was founded in 1946 and disbanded in 1956. It originated in the black labor movement of the 1930s and had explicit communist ties; it is famous for petitioning the United Nations to investigate Genocide against the African-American Population in the United States
What is the Civil Rights Congress.
300
Students returning from 1964 voter-registration drives in the South, the Freedom Summer, brought the civil rights movement to the North and founded this student protest group in mid-1960s. This group was built on the idea that students should be politicized and activist participants in society.
What is Students for a Democratic Society (or SDS).
300
The United States Government used the labor of American pacifists for the war effort by establishing these during World War II.
What are Civilian Public Service Camps.
300
This famous pacifist refused to contribute to the United States' war effort in World War II and issued a political criticism of the United States' participation in war upon entering prison in 1943.
Who is David Dellinger.
400
The popular colloquial term for the economic recession and devalued currency of the 1970s.
What is "Stagflation" (economic STAGnation and inFLATION)
400
These 1961 civil rights activists rode interstate buses into the South to test desegregation and challenge the white supremacist stats quo. They were met with mob violence and President Kennedy called in federal troops to protect the activists during the crisis.
What are the Freedom Riders. (Freedom Rides is also acceptable)
400
This 1973 Supreme Court decision on reproductive rights guaranteed women legal right to abortion.
What is Roe v. Wade.
400
This is the name for U.S. Government's Cold War policy of supporting any anti-communist regime around the world, no matter their anti-democratic practices.
What is the Truman Doctrine.
400
This conservative, reactionary, anti-Feminist successfully waged a grassroots political campaign to defeat the Equal Rights Amendment between from 1972-1982.
Who is Phyllis Schlafly.
500
This is the ideology behind Free Trade and Globalization, most demonstrably embodied by the World Trade Organization.
What is Neo-Liberalism.
500
This student group was formed in 1960 and became one of the most prominent civil rights groups. It raised money in the North to fund activism in the South, and its members used direct confrontation to physically disrupt and challenge southern segregation. By the late 1960s, the group began more radical activities and sympathized with the Black Panther movement.
What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC.
500
This 1964 student movement at a California college campus protested the close relationship between college administration and industry (particularly those producing war materials for the Vietnam War) by occupying the campus and administrative buildings. At teach-ins they denounced the "Military Industrial Education Complex" and their most well-known leader was Mario Salvio.
What is the Berkeley Free Speech Movement.
500
This "incident" between North Vietnamese forces and an American Warship in 1964 was fabricated by the U.S. to justify American military intervention in Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
500
This prominent feminist helped make feminism a mainstream social movement in the 1960s and helped launch Second Wave Feminism with the 1963 book "The Feminine Mystique."
Who is Betty Friedan.
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