Civil Rights
City famous for the bus boycott of 1955
What is Montgomery?
This period of tension between which two nations led to the Cold War
What are the U.S. and Russia?
These two events led to the U.S. involvement in WWI
What is "unrestricted submarine warfare" and the "Zimmerman Telegram?
This leader was associated with fascism in Italy
Who is Benito Mussolini?
Event that triggered the Great Depression
What is "Black Tuesday" or the stock market crash of 1929
Location of the first lunch counter "sit in"
What is Greensboro, NC
During the Cold War the main issue from the America's point of view was to stop the spread of __________.
What is communism?
This country left the war to deal with revolution in its own country in 1917.
What is Russia?
"a date that will live in infamy..."
What is Dec. 7, 1941 (Pearl Harbor)
The President that was blamed for the Great Depression
Who is Herbert Hoover?
The landmark civil rights case, which ruled "separate but equal" unconstitutional
What is Brown v. Brown vs. The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas
The U.S. policy cited to stop the spread of communism was called
What is containment?
Which World War I cause missing from the list: Militarism, Imperialism, Alliances, _________
What is Nationalism?
The event that started WWII in Europe
What is the German invasion of Poland?
The event when large numbers of African Americans moved from the South to the large cities of the North and Midwest
What is the Great Migration?
This law outlawed literacy tests.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
The U.S fought in these two countries during the Cold War
What are Korea and Vietnam?
U.S. policy prior to getting involved in WWI
What is neutrality (isolationism)
Original Big Three leaders
Who are Franklin Roosevelt, Josef Stalin, and Winston Churchill
Widespread threat of communism spreading after both World War I and II
What is the Red Scare?
President responsible for signing the Civil Rights bills of both 1964 and 1965 into law
Who is Lyndon Johnson (LBJ)?
This event signaled the end of the Cold War.
What is "tearing down of the Berlin Wall" or the "fall of the Soviet Union"
The style of fighting associated with WWI on the Western Front
What is trench warfare?
The invasion at Normandy Beach in June 6, 1944 was called
What is D-Day (Operation Overlord)
The most important event in ending the Great Depression
What the beginning of WWII in Europe (the movement from a peacetime to a wartime economy in the U.S)