Jazz Age
Depression and FDR
WWII
Cold War
America in the 50's
100
The Red Scare
What is the fear of communism that swept through the country after WWI?
100
Black Thursday - October 24, 1929
What triggered the Great Depression?
100
dictator
What is a leader that controls his nation by force?
100
The Big Three
What was FDR, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin known as at the Yalta conference in 1945.
100
Sputnik I
What is the Russian Satellite that was launched into orbit as the world's first artificial satellite on October 4, 1957?
200
The Ohio Gang
What is the name of President Harding's group of friends that he appointed to government jobs?
200
Bonus Army
Who marched to Washington, D.C., to receive their promise "bonus money" early?
200
Hitler, Mussolini, FDR, Stalin
Who was the leader of Germany? Who was the leader of Italy? Who was the leader of United States? Who was the leader of the Soviet Union?
200
The Iron Curtain
What was the political and military barrier that isolated Soviet-controlled countries of Eastern Europe after the war?
200
Arms Race
What was the building up of nuclear weapons between the two rival countries United States and the Soviet Union?
300
Charles Lindbergh
Who was the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in May of 1927?
300
Social Security Act
What created a tax on workers and employers to provide pensions and unemployment insurance?
300
Anti-Semitism
What is the hatred of Jews?
300
Berlin Airlift
When Americans airlifted supplies into the city of West Berlin for more than 10 months.
300
Fidel Castro
Who was the Cuban dictator in 1959?
400
Prohibition
What was the period of time during the 1920's when there was a total ban on alcohol?
400
Okies
Who were migrant workers who left Oklahoma in search of farm work?
400
Blitzkrieg
What did Germany call the Poland invasion? (Name for "lightning war".)
400
McCarthyism
What is the term named after Senator Joseph McCarthy in which many people were publicly accused of being Communist?
400
The Baby Boom
What was the dramatic population increase after WWII known as?
500
The Scopes Trial
What was the trial in 1925 involving a teacher who taught the theory of evolution?
500
The Dust Bowl
What is the Great Plains area damaged by droughts and dust storms during the 1930's.
500
genocide
What is the wiping out of an entire group of people?
500
demilitarized
What is the word for "no military forces allowed"?
500
Fidel Castro
Who dangerously formed close ties with the Soviet Union in the late 1950's?
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