The Great Depression
The New Deal
Pearl Harbor
Social Change Movements
1968
100
A severe economic recession in the 1930's that affected all the world's industrial nations and the countries that exported raw materials.
What is the Great Depression?
100
This agency was established in 1933, to build dams and power plants along the Tennessee River and tributaries.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority.
100
On the morning of December 7, 1941, the navy of the Empire of Japan launched a surprise attack on the U.S. Navy base at this location.
What is Pearl Harbor?
100
This organization was founded by Martin Luther King Jr, and other ministers and civil rights leaders.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
100
This president negotiated a peace agreement between the Egyptian president and the Israeli prime minister at Camp David.
What is Jimmy Carter?
200
Following the Great Depression, homeless and unemployed people settled in camps of shacks and tents in rundown areas. These camps became known as _____.
What is Hoovervilles?
200
This Act was characterized by Old age insurance for retirees aged 65 or older and their spouses, paid half by the employee and half by the employer. Additionally, Unemployment compensation paid by federal tax on employers and administered by the states.
What is the Social Security Act?
200
The American government had developed two atomic bombs in a secret laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico. This project's code name was ___.
What is the Manhattan Project?
200
This organizations was founded with $800 dollars received from the SCLC.
What is the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee?
200
This Supreme Court ruling addressed the right of women to choose whether to have a abortion under certain circumstances.
What is Roe v. Wade?
300
A series of storms that hit the prairies, they picked up the dirt loosened by the drought and the poor farming practices that had eroded the soil. This ecological disaster was called the ____.
What is the Dust Bowl?
300
This first lady was interested in humanitarian causes and social progress, and she was very vocal about them during her husband's time in the White House.
What is Eleanor Roosevelt?
300
It remains the largest seaborne invasion in history, with over 156,000 men crossing the English Channel in 7,000 vessels.
What is D-Day?
300
What is Coach Bond's first name?
What is Bradley?
300
This organization set limits on pollution, to conduct environmental research, and to assist state and local governments in the cleanup of polluted sites.
What is the EPA?
400
This economic disater was characterized by widespread panic and the volume selling of stocks.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
400
This Act made it illegal to sell arms or make loans to nations at war.
What is the Neutrality Acts?
400
Occuring on June 4-7, 1942, this victory is regarded as the most important naval engagement of the Pacific campaign of the war.
What is the Battle of Midway?
400
This organization was founded in 1966 to promote equal opportunities for America's women.
What is NOW?
400
This president in the 1980s wanted to decrease the size and role of the federal government through budget cuts, tax cuts and increased defense spending.
What is Ronald Reagan?
500
"Soulja Boy" rose to prominence with his first studio album titled "Souljaboytellem.com", what is the rappers offical government name.
What is DeAndre Cortez Way?
500
Civil Rights leader who was credited for founding the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
What is A. Philip Randolph?
500
Nine months prior to Pearl Harbor, Congress passed the ____ Act which amended the Neutrality Acts so the U.S. could lend military equipment and supplies to any nation the president said was vital to the defense of the U.S.
What is the Lend Lease Act?
500
This Civil Rights Activist started a nationwide boycott of California grapes, forcing grape growers to negotiate a contract with the United Farm Workers in 1970.
What is Cesar Chavez.
500
The invasion of Afghanistan by the U.S. military and allied forces in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks was called ___.
What is Operation Enduring Freedom?
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