World Wars
The US developed protective masks during World War I for this reason.
What was the development of chemical weapons?
How this Supreme Court verdict overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
What was Brown v. Board of Education desegregating schools?
The US policy toward involvement in foreign conflicts prior to 1917 can be summed up by this word.
What is isolationism?
The Harlem Renaissance
What was the movement of African American artists, poets and musicians in the early 1900's?
end of the cold war
1991
The US created an unbreakable code using this system.
Who were the Navajo Code Talkers?
This amendment granted women the right to vote
What was the 19th Amendment?
Mountainous terrain, jungles, and tropical diseases made construction of this pet project extremely difficult for Teddy Roosevelt
What is the Panama Canal?
The US government responded to Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech at the 1963 Washington DC March by doing this.
The dust bowl exacerbated this era which began in 1929
What was the Great Depression?
After World War II, the Truman Doctrine ensured economic aid to these two Eastern European nations to prevent the spread of Communism.
This law, enacted after World War II, enabled veterans to obtain college education and homes with financed mortgage rates
What was the GI Bill?
After the French pulled out of Indochina in 1954, military aid to THIS southeast Asian country became US policy.
What was South Vietnam?
In 1970, four students at Kent State were accidentally shot by National Guard troops as they protested this war.
What was the Vietnam War?
The Patriot Act was passed by George Bush in response to this terrorist event
What was September 11, 2001?
The name for a group of African American Air Force pilots who fought in World War II.
Who were The Tuskegee Airmen?
"Old enough to fight, old enough to vote" was a slogan connecting THIS war to the passage of THIS 1971 amendment.
What was the Vietnam War and the 26th Amendment?
The US responded this way to Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
What was the Persian Gulf War?
The United Farm Workers Association was formed by these 1960s activists to improve working conditions and fair wages for migrant farmworkers.
Who were Cesar Chavez and Dorothy Huerta?
assassination of Martin Luther King
1968
One way Executive Order 9066 affected these Americans.
What were Japanese internment camps during World War II?
This amendment stopped Southern state laws from preventing the enactment of the 14th Amendment.
What was the 24th Amendment banning poll taxes?
Signed in 1994, this established a free-trade zone in North America Canada, Mexico, lifting tariffs between the US, Canada, and Mexico.
What was NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)?
The division of Native American Reservations into individual family farms through THIS Act caused THIS effect.
What was the Dawes Act breaking up the tribal system?
two events in the space race, years, nations involved
1957 Sputnik Russia
1969 Astronauts on the Moon US