Jim Crow
This court case upheld a Louisiana segregation law.
What was Plessy vs Ferguson?
The acronym M.A.I.N. stands for this.
What is Militarism, Alliances (systems), Imperialism, Nationalism?
This was a cause of the Great Depression.
What is the 1929 Stock Market Crash, contraction of the money supply, Hawley-Smoot Tariff, Bank Runs?
This attack brought the U.S. into WWII.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This 13 day period in 1962 was the closest the U.S. ever came to Nuclear War, luckily the tensions were resolved diplomatically.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This early civil rights activist exposed the lynching occurring in the south as targeted murders in her pamphlet the Red Record.
Who is Ida B. Wells-Barnett?
This plan for peace was created by Woodrow Wilson at the end of WWI, it included open seas and The League of Nations.
What was the 14 Points?
This was a consequence of the Great Depression.
What is poverty, homelessness, starvation?
This battle took place in North Africa and was an allied victory, resulting in the prevention of the Axis powers from gaining access to Middle Eastern oil.
What is the Battle of El Alamein?
This connection of roads and paths, named after the North Vietnamese communist leader, was instrumental to the Northern Vietnamese's success.
What is the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
This organization was founded by W.E.B. DuBois to help fight for political equality.
What is the NAACP?
This note was sent from Germany to Mexico suggesting an alliance, but it was intercepted by the British.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
In 1933 the unemployment rate in the U.S. hit this all-time high.
What is 25% or 1 out 4?
These three world leaders met at the Potsdam Conference to discuss how to get Japan to surrender and what to do with the defeated Axis powers.
Who are Truman, Stalin, and Churchill?
This was the name of Lyndon B. Johnson social welfare program that he saw as a continuation of FDR's New Deal, it expanded Social Security.
What is Great Society?
This institute founded by Booker T. Washington helped educate Black Americans in trades and later became the training location of the first Black pilots.
What is the Tuskegee Institute?
This agreement decided what to do with the losers of WWI and was considered to be extremely punitive.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
This president was accused of not doing enough to help mitigate the hardships of the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This was the systematic genocide of 6 millions jew and the murder of five million others (communist, poles, gypsies, homosexuals).
What was the Holocaust?
This was the nickname of Ronald Reagan's defensive initiative, it was designed to detect missiles and exploded them before they could hit their target.
What was the Star Wars Initiative?
This Virginia city experienced intense racial tension and eventually succumbed to the violence enacted by the White citizens, resulting in less Black political participation.
What is Danville, VA?
This was the Serbian Nationalist group that orchestrated the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
What was the Black Hand?
This devastating ecological event was occurring at the same time as the Great Depression, the topsoil was blowing away.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This general led the charge in the Pacific against the Japanese and helped oversee the rebuilding of the Japanese government after their surrender.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
As the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 it broke up into this many independent nations.
What is 15?