The name given to reform-minded journalists who exposed unsafe working and living conditions associated with industrialization.
Who are muckrakers?
100
Most utilized method for conducting battle during World War I.
What is trench warfare?
100
The natural disaster that left many farmers on the Great Plains homeless.
What is the dust bowl?
100
1954 Supreme Court Case that overturned Plessy v Ferguson by ruling that "separate but equal" for schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v Board of Education?
100
Leader of North Vietnam
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
200
This process made the production of steel cheaper, stronger, and faster.
What is the Bessemer Process?
200
Causes of World War I.
What are Militarism, Alliance System, Imperialism, Nationalism?
200
October 29, 1929 - Stock Market collapsed
What is Black Tuesday?
200
Acts passed by the United States prohibiting the sale of weapons to warring countries.
What is Neutrality Acts?
200
Resolution passed by Congress that gave President Lyndon Johnson the authorization, without formal declaration of war by Congress, to use military force in Southeast Asia.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
300
Act that provided settlers 160 acre tracts of land to encourage Western expansion.
What is the Homestead Act?
300
President Woodrow Wilson's speech to Congress outlining the steps for peace following World War I.
What is Fourteen Points?
300
Practice of buying stocks with only a portion of the money and borrowing the rest.
What is buying on margin?
300
Act passed in 1941 that moved the United States foreign policy from isolationism to involvement.
What is the Lend Lease Act?
300
Theory that states if one country in a region falls to Communism then surrounding countries would follow.
What is the Domino Theory?
400
General Custer and his men were defeated by the Lakota in this battle.
What is the Battle of Little Big Horn?
400
Amendment that made the production, sale, and transport of alcohol illegal.
What is the 18th Amendment?
400
President at the beginning of the Great Depression whose name was used to label makeshift shanty towns for the homeless.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
400
Plan put into place to rebuild Europe following World War II in the hope of preventing the spread of communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
400
A period in 1962 when the Soviet Union planted nuclear weapons in Cuba to threaten the United States.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
500
President Theodore Roosevelt's addition to the Monroe Doctrine which permitted United States continued involvement in Latin American affairs.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
500
Movement in the 1920s that showed African American culture through the arts.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
500
Legislation and programs introduced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in response to the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
500
Top secret codename for developing the Atomic Weapon.
What is the Manhattan Project?
500
Series of surprise attacks by Communist forces in Vietnam in 1968.