Economics
Great Depression
Civil Rights
World War II
World War II
100
The practice of making high-risk investments in hopes of getting a high rate of return.
What is Speculation
100
American president who lost popularity and was associated with hardship during the Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover
100
Landmark Supreme Court decision that struck down the policy of separate but equal in public education
What is Brown v Board of Education (Topeka)
100
Political system that places the importance of the nation above individual freedom.
What is Fascism
100
Name of the air combat between between the German Luftwaffa and the British Royal Air Force
What is the Battle of Britain.
200
An Economic Ideology developed by Karl Marx and adopted by Russia in the early 20th century.
What is Communism
200
The name given to Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to fight the Depression
What is the New Deal
200
City in Alabama where Eugene "Bull" Connor greeted school children with police dogs and fire hoses
What is Birmingham
200
Policy of giving in to Hitler's demands to avoid going to war
What is Appeasement
200
The fascist dictator of Italy
Who is Benito Mussolini
300
All of the goods and services produced by a country in one year. (No Abbreviations)
What is Gross National Product
300
The New Deal Program that funded the arts (No Abbreviations)
What is the Works Progress Administration
300
The march on Washington in 1963 was significant because of
What is the "I Have a Dream" speech.
300
European country invaded by Germany on Sept. 1, 1939, which started WWII
What is Poland
300
Six months after Pearl Harbor, the United States Navy scored a major victory against the Japanese Navy at
What is Midway
400
Program that provides retirement pensions and unemployment insurance to Americans
What is Social Security
400
FDR's response to the supreme court when they ruled New Deal programs unconstitutional.
What is "Court Packing"
400
"Black Power" leader who joined the Nation of Islam
Who is Malcolm X
400
Scientist who warned F.D.R. that an atomic bomb could be built in 1939
What is Albert Einstein
400
The General who led all American armed forces in the Pacific during WWII
Who is Douglas MacAurthur
500
Total amount of money that the government has borrowed and not paid back
What is National Debt or Deficit
500
The program that brought cheap electrical power to Tennessee and 4 other southeastern states (No Abbreviations)
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority.
500
Refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white person in Montgomery Alabama igniting the civil rights movement
Who is Rosa Parks
500
The term associated with hatred of the Jews
What is anti-Semitism
500
Where did more than 90,000 German troops surrender to the Russians in January 1943?
What is Stalingrad
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