Famous pilot who flew the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
100
A long term reform program that regulates the stock market.
What is the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission)?
100
The deliberate extermination of a specific group of people.
What is genocide?
100
This act offered returning veterans college tuition and low-interest home loans.
What is the G.I. Bill?
100
The United States' main goal in Vietnam.
What is to stop the spread of communism into South Vietnam?
200
Began in World War One, this continued during the 1920s and blacks continued to leave the Jim Crow South and settle in Northern cities.
What is the Great Migration?
200
New deal program that was the most ambitious at creating new jobs and putting people to work.
What is the Works Progress Administration?
200
This German military strategy depended upon surprise and overwhelming force.
What is blitzkrieg?
200
The vast majority of new homes in the 1950s were built in these areas.
What are suburbs?
200
The commander of U.S. troops in Vietnam.
Who is General William Westmoreland?
300
This greatly increased, due to Prohibition.
What is organized Crime?
300
New Deal program created to raise prices of farm products.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (created by the Agricultural Adjustment Act)?
300
Nisei who lived on the West Coast were subject to this during World War Two.
What is internment?
300
With more money to spend and increased products, this became a way of life for Americans in the 1950s.
What is consumerism?
300
In the early years of the Vietnam War, a young man could automatically be deferred from the draft by doing this.
What is enrolling in college?
400
What did Shantytowns become called, due to people's disappointment with this President's approach to the Great Depression?
What is "Hoovervilles?"
400
This act was ruled unconstitutional, due to its violations of interstate commerce as it attempted to regulate industry by establishing fair codes of competition.
What is the National Industrial Recovery Act (NRA - National Recovery Administration)?
400
This organization managed inflation during World War Two by establishing price controls.
What is the Office of Price Administration?
400
This became the primary form of news and entertainment in the 1950s and 1960s.
What is the television?
400
This event sparked mass protest and the first general student strike in U.S. history, including the Kent State incident.
What is the invasion of Cambodia?
500
President Hoover was against this approach to helping people with the Great Depression.
What is Direct Relief (giving payments of food to the poor)?
500
This New Deal Act had the biggest long-term impact on the American economy by creating pensions for the elderly, unemployment insurance, and aid to the disabled.
What is the Social Security Act?
500
In terms of finding better jobs, this group experienced advancement during World War Two.
Who are African Americans?
500
The expression of nonconformity by artists and poets became knowns as this.
What is the beat movement or 'beatniks?'
500
The act was passed to repeal the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and limit the power of the President to wage war without Congressional approval.