What event led to official US involvement in WWII?
What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor
100
What is the Truman Doctrine?
What is a policy of the US providing military, political, and economic assistance to nations under the threat of communism
100
Who was the leader of the African American peaceful protests?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
100
What was the Tet Offensive?
What is a surprise attack on South Vietnam on the Tet New Year
200
What was the purpose of the New Deal?
What are the 3 R's: Relief, Recovery, and Reform
200
What are two ways Roosevelt gave aid to the allies during WWII? Extra 100 points if you can tell us what these aid policies specifically did
What are the lend-lease act, destroyers for bases, Cash and Carry policy, Hemispheric Defense Zone
200
What was sputnik?
What is a Russian satellite launched into space that led to the space race
200
Who were the Black Panthers and who led them?
Who are Huey Newton and a revolutionary party founded with the purpose to patrol African American neighborhoods to protect residents from police brutality
200
What policy led to US involvement in the Vietnam War?
What is the Truman Doctrine, Containment, or Domino Theory
300
Why did the Bonus Army march on Washington?
What is to demand payment for their service in WWI which had been promised by the US Government
300
Why did Japan join the axis powers?
What is America's embargo on Japan?
300
What was the generation gap?
What is a generational difference between baby boomers and the teenagers who listened to rock n roll and rebelled against their parents values and ideals
300
What was the counterculture?
What is a 1960's youth movement that participated in the anti-war demonstrations and the civil rights movements. Hippies were part of this along with student organizations and the free speech movement.
300
Why was Vietnam called the Living Room War?
What is nightly news reports showing the death tolls and reality of the violence of the War in Vietnam
400
What were fireside chats?
What are FDR's nightly radio addresses to the nation during the Great Depression and New Deal.
400
Where did the United States drop two atomic bombs?
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki
400
What was the Second Red Scare and who led it?
Who is Senator Joseph McCarthy and what is US citizens beginning to fear communism would take over the world
400
Who took over as President after President Kennedy was assassinated?
Who is President Lyndon B Johnson
400
What was the purpose of operation Rolling Thunder?
What is the strategic targeting of North Vietnamese military resources and locations
500
What were the 5 causes of the Great Depression?
What are stock market speculation, federal economic policies, bank failures, credit and debt, over production
500
What effect did WWII have on minority groups in the US? (Name 2)
What are Zoot Suit Riots, Bracero Program, Women went to work in the factories, Japanese Internment, African Americans formed their own unit, Navajo code talkers.
500
What was the purpose of the Army-McCarthy hearings?
What is McCarthy looking for spies in the army and accusing the army of misconduct and televised the hearings. This led to a decline in popularity for McCarthy
500
What was the Bay of Pigs?
What is a failed invasion of Cuba led by Cuban exiles
500
What was the impact of the Tet Offensive?
What is a drop in Johnson's popularity, distrust of the US government, US reaction: anger and disbelief