Great Depression
World War II
Post-War America
Cold War
Civil Rights Era
100
This New Deal program provided aid for the disabled and old age pensions.
What is the Social Security Act?
100
The rise of this type of leader led to World War II.
What are dictatorships?
100
The launch of this satellite began the Space Race.
What is Sputnik?
100
This event was the closest the United States and the Soviet Union ever got to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
100
This Supreme Court case ruled that "separate, but equal" violated the 14th amendment.
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas?
200
The 3 R's of the New Deal programs
What is Relief, Recovery, and Reform?
200
The December 7, 1941 attack on this base brought the United States into World War II.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
200
This is the space agency created in the United States.
What is NASA?
200
This was the theory that if one southeast Asian country fell to communism others would fall as well. Part of the bigger policy of containment.
What is Domino Theory?
200
These two Civil Rights leaders had opposing ideas about accomplishing their goals, but both were assassinated.
Who are Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.?
300
This New Deal program protects people's bank savings in case of a bank failure.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
300
This invasion on June 6, 1944 was led by General Eisenhower and began the liberation of Europe from German control.
What is the invasion of Normandy (D-Day)?
300
Following WWII people began to move out of cities to what?>
What are suburbs?
300
These conflicts involved the United States helping defend democratic countries from being taken over by their communist brethren.
What are the Korean War and the Vietnam War?
300
These nine students integrated Central High School in 1957 leading to protests and intervention by the Federal government to enforce integration.
What is the Little Rock Nine?
400
These were shantytowns built by homeless, unemployed people. They were named after the president as an insult.
What are Hoovervilles?
400
Executive Order 9066 leads to this.
What is the internment of Japanese-American citizens in prison camps.
400
Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start are all examples of this domestic program by President Johnson.
What is the Great Society?
400
This resolution gave President Johnson the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
400
This amendment made the poll tax illegal.
What is the 24th Amendment?
500
This environmental disaster devastated the Great Plains and led to thousands of Okies to migrate to California.
What is the Dust Bowl?
500
The allied naval strategy to capture Japanese-held islands in the Pacific Theater.
What is island hopping?
500
Following WWII, people began to move in mass numbers to this region of the United States.
What is the Sun Belt?
500
This law, passed in 1973, limited the President's ability to send troops into battle without Congressional approval.
What is the War Powers Act?
500
These two pieces of legislation made discrimination in public places illegal and ended discrimination in voting.
What are the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
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