World War II
The Cold War
The Civil Rights Movement
Great Depression/New Deal
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100

Germany, Italy, and Japan were known as the....

Axis Powers

100

a proxy ideological war between the U.S. and the USSR

What was the Cold War?

100

What was the Civil Rights Movement?

movement to achieve equality, regardless of skin color / race

100

FDR's plan to rebuild the economy during the Depression.

What is the New Deal?

100

This US president was assassinated during the Cold War

Who is JFK (Kennedy)?

200

Original stance of US before WWI and what it changes to after the bombing of Pearl Harbor

What is isolationism -> interventionism?

200

Why were the Korean and Vietnam Wars fought?

communism
200

This was the result of Rosa Parks getting arrested

What is the Montgomery Bus boycott?

200

3 goals of the New Deal

What were relief, recovery and reform?

200

This court case says you must be notified of your rights when you get arrested

What is Miranda v. Arizona?

300

The plan to get close enough to Japan to begin bombing it.

What is Island Hopping?

300

competition between U.S. and USSR involving nuclear weapons

What is the arms race?

300

What was the difference between MLK and Malcom X?

MLK was nonviolent and Malcom X was ok with violence

300

A series of radio talks where FDR explained the New Deal programs to the American people

What were the Fireside Chats?

300

Court case over the teaching of evolution in public schools

What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?

400

Executive Order 9066 established this

What are Japanese Internment Camps?

400

effort to reach space / the moon first, competition between U.S. and USSR to prove superiority

What is the Space Race?

400
Examples of civil disobedience

sit-ins, boycotts, protests, marches (on Washington), etc.

400

What would you call a group of cardboard houses set up in a public park or street alley?

What are Hoovervilles?

400

During the Vietnam War the National Guard opened fire on protestors here

What is Kent State?

500

The date that Pearl Harbor was attacked.

What is December 7, 1941?

500

McCarthyism / The Red Scare

What is a witch hunt for communism, fear of communism, blacklisting people?

500

Walk for voting rights that ended in violence

What is the Selma March-Bloody Sunday?

500

New Deal program that guarantees your money is safe in the bank. If the bank fails they will cover your lost money up to $100,000.

What is the FDIC?

500

An extension of FDRs New Deal

What was the Great Society?

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