The Great Depression
World War II
The Cold War
The Civil Rights Movement
The War on Terror
100

This president launched the New Deal.

Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?

100

The U.S. entered WWII after this 1941 attack.

What is the Attack on Pearl Harbor?

100

This wall divided a German city during the Cold War.

What is the Berlin Wall?

100

This assembly of over 200,000 people occurred in 1963.

What is the March on Washington?

100

This terrorist group was responsible for the 9/11 attacks.

What is al-Qaeda?

200

This event triggered the Great Depression.

What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?

200

This was the code name for the Allied invasion of Normandy.

What is D-Day?

200

This crisis brought the U.S. and USSR close to nuclear war.

What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?

200

This act outlawed discrimination in public places.

What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

200

The U.S. invaded this country in 2001 to remove the Taliban.

What is Afghanistan?

300

This dust storm era devastated farms in the Plains.

What is the Dust Bowl?

300

This coalition included the U.S., Britain, and the Soviet Union.

What are the Allies?

300

This U.S. organization was formed to oppose communism in Europe.

What is NATO?

300

This 1954 Supreme Court case ended school segregation.

What is Brown v. Board of Education?

300

This department was created in 2002 to coordinate domestic security.

What is the Department of Homeland Security?

400

This 1935 act created a system of pensions for the elderly.

What is the Social Security Act?

400

This project developed the first atomic bomb.

What is the Manhattan Project?

400

This policy aimed to stop the spread of communism.

What is containment?

400

Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in this city.

What is Montgomery, Alabama?

400

This prison camp in Cuba has been used to detain suspected terrorists since 2002.

What is Guantanamo Bay?

500

This program provided jobs building roads, parks, and public works.

What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?

500

Japanese Americans were placed in these camps during the war.

What are internment camps? 

500

This U.S. policy provided economic aid to rebuild Western Europe after World War II.

What is the Marshall Plan?

500

This group used nonviolent protest and was led by Martin Luther King Jr.

What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?

500

This 2001 law expanded the government’s surveillance and intelligence-gathering powers.

What is the US PATRIOT Act?

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