Turbulent Times
The Civil War
Government & Economics
20th Century Conflicts
Hit-or-Miss Ideas
200
Richard Nixon was ultimately forced to resign from the presidency as a result of the 1972 burglary of the Democratic Party Headquarters, which was located in this building complex in Washington, D.C.
What is the Watergate Hotel?
200
This name was given to the Union's overall strategy for defeating the Confederacy in the American Civil War, developed by General Winfield Scott.
What was the Anaconda Plan?
200
This first Secretary of the Treasury promoted a U.S. debt program and the establishment of a national bank in order to encourage the U.S. to transition from agrarianism to industrialization.
Who was Alexander Hamilton?
200
This term was used to describe the worldwide rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union.
What was the Cold War?
200
This term was used to describe the belief that the U.S. was foreordained to expand its territory from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
What was Manifest Destiny?
400
This term was used to describe the easing of tensions between the United States and the communist governments of the Soviet Union and China in the 1970s.
What is detente?
400
This name was chosen by the government of the South when they broke away from the Union in an attempt to form their own nation.
What was the Confederate States of America?
400
The first ten amendments to the Constitution are often referred to by this name.
What is the Bill of Rights?
400
This 1962 confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union resulted from the Soviet installation of nuclear missiles in Cuba.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
400
The belief that the interests of one's own country should be placed ahead of regional concerns or the interests of other countries is referred to by this name.
What is nationalism?
600
This Supreme Court decision stated that racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
What was Brown v. Board of Education?
600
In 1861, this creek in northern Virginia was the site of the first major battle of the American Civil War.
What is Bull Run?
600
President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave this name to the programs and laws he created to promote economic recovery and social reform in response to the Great Depression.
What was the New Deal?
600
United Nations forces were reluctant to invade too far into North Korea during the Korean War for fear of provoking this nation.
What is China?
600
This social movement sought to make alcohol illegal throughout the 1800s.
What is the temperance movement?
800
This leader in the Civil Rights Movement served as a spokesman and minister for the Nation of Islam.
Who was Malcolm X?
800
The "March to the Sea" that devastated the Confederate state of Georgia was led by this Union general and right-hand man to Ulysses S. Grant.
Who was William Tecumseh Sherman?
800
This term refers to the social and economic reorganization that took place as machines replaced hand tools and large scale factory production expanded after the Embargo Act of 1809.
What was the Industrial Revolution?
800
The Zimmerman Note, the sinking of the passenger ship Lusitania, and the large amounts of money owed by the Allied Powers to the U.S. and U.S. companies were all factors in America's decision to become involved in this conflict.
What was World War I?
800
The League of Nations was the cornerstone of this set of proposals set forth by President Wilson at the end of World War I with the goal of preventing future wars.
What were the Fourteen Points?
1000
News of this 1968 event, which was covered up by the U.S. Army until late 1969, turned American public opinion even more against the Vietnam War and the U.S. military.
What was the My Lai Massacre?
1000
The period of time immediately following the Civil War in the South was known by this name.
What was Reconstruction?
1000
This original governmental framework for the United States was replaced by the Constitution because it was too weak to support an effective central government.
What were the Articles of Confederation?
1000
The U.S. intervention in Vietnam was part of this overall Cold War strategy, which was intended to prevent the spread of Communism throughout the world.
What is containment?
1000
This U.S. policy stated that European powers could no longer colonize the Americas and that the U.S. would support Latin America against future European colonization efforts.
What was the Monroe Doctrine?