Supreme Court + Constitution
This Amendment to the Constitution includes the "Five Freedoms," which are the freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.
What is the "First Amendment?"
The economic and political system of the Soviet Union.
What is "Communism?"
This alliance of three countries were fighting against the United States
What is the "Axis"? (Or Axis Powers) (Or Japan/Italy/Germany)
This president took power after Hoover and is credited with creating the New Deal.
Who is "Franklin Delano Roosevelt?"
This war between Spain and America marks a turning point for U.S. foreign policy.
What is "The Spanish-American War?"
This constitutional principal includes all the rights that the government is supposed to respect before taking away someone's life, liberty, or property, and includes rights like a jury trial, an attorney, and a warrant.
What is "Due Process?"
The U.S. plan to give money to any European democratic country that was hurt by WWII
Marshall Plan
The reason the United States shifted from neutrality to involvement in WWII
What was "Pearl Harbor?"
An environmental disaster that took place during the Great Depression, making farming even more difficult.
What was the Dust Bowl?
The nation that traded the rights to build a U.S. controlled canal for aid in a revolution against Columbia.
What is "Panama"
This Supreme Court Case involved a student protest against the Vietnam war, affirming the right to wear protest symbols to school.
What is "Tinker v. Des Moines"
A proxy war where the United Nations, and especially the U.S., supplied troops to defend one side of a civil war that continues to this day.
What was the Korean War?
The name of the most influential plan implemented by the Allied Powers, an effort to retake Normandy, France from the Nazis.
What is D-Day?
The category of New Deal programs that focused on directly paying and feeding unemployed and starving Americans.
What is "Relief"
The policy of Teddy Roosevelt, which included building up a strong navy to intimidate the rest of the world.
This Supreme Court case ignored the rights of Japanese Americans who were interned in camps throughout the U.S.
What was "Korematsu v. the U.S."
An method of seizing political power using hysteria and fear, named after a Senator who attacked his enemies during the Red Scare.
What is McCarthyism?
The name of the first city to ever be targeted by a nuclear weapon.
What is Hiroshima, Japan?
A tax on imports and exports that made the Great Depression much worse for America.
What is the "Smoot-Hawley Tariff?"
The secret note sent from Germany to Mexico which pushed the U.S. to join WWI
What was the Zimmerman Telegram?