Communism
What was the domino theory?
The political idea is that if one country became communist then all surrounding countries would also become communist.
What president was involved in the Watergate Scandal?
Richard Nixon
Who served as the first president of the American Federation of Labor?
Samuel Gompers
What president escalated the Vietnam War by deploying a large number of troops following the Gulf of Tonkin incident?
Lyndon B. Johnson
What type of protest did Martin Luther King Jr. and the SCLC advocate?
Nonviolent acts of civil disobedience to protest unjust laws.
Who gave the "Cross of Gold Speech"?
William Bryans Jennings
Why was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established?
To create a defensive pact to protect Western Europe and North America from Soviet attacks
The bombing of Pearl Harbor
What started the Spanish American War?
Sinking of the USS Maine
De Lome Letter
Which president created the interstate highway system?
Dwight D. Eisenhower?
What muckracker exposed the meat packing industry?
Upton Sinclair
What was Vietnamization?
The US replaced American soldiers in South Vietnam with more highly trained South Vietnamese soldiers.
What was the original group name of the "Freedom Riders"?
Congress of Racial Equality
What was the primary objective of the Dawes Act of 1887?
To assimilate Native Americans into American Society.
What was a key naval weapon used by the Germans during WWl? (hint: not radar)
The U-Boat
Why did the United States enter WWl?
What was the common goal of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan?
To prevent Soviet expansion and the spread of communism
What president approved the Bay of Pigs invasion and confronted the Soviet Union in the Cuban Missile Crisis?
John F. Kennedy
What was the first national labor organization in the United States?
National Labor Union
What incident in 1964 led to the United States to send more troops to Vietnam?
The Gulf of Tonkin incident
What court case established that separate facilities were inherently unequal?
Brown v. Board of Education
What was the purpose of the Homestead Act of 1862?
To promote the settlement of the Great Plains by offering free land to those willing to farm it for 5 years
What was the tipping point that started WWl?
Which event initiated World War II in Europe?
Germany invasion of Poland
What was the central fear that led to the Red Scare in the late 1940s and early 1950s?
The fear that communists were infiltrating all areas of American society
What president led the nation throughout MOST of WWll?
Franklin. D Roosevelt
What were the results of the 1932 election?
Roosevelt defeated Hoover by a landslide.
What other southeast asian country did the US bomb in the Vietnam War?
Cambodia & Laos
Which Supreme Court case established that police must advise criminal suspects of their Constitutional rights before questioning them?
Miranda v. Arizona
a party that supported the coinage of silver
Populist
America's 43rd president
George Bush
Which general was the Supreme Commander of Allied forces in Europe during World War II?
Dwight Eisenhower
What effect did the Bolshevik Revolution have on the American people?
The American public became fearful of communism that could spread to America
Warren G. Harding
What do TVA, PWA, and WPA all have in common?
They are New Deal programs aimed at creating jobs and stimulating the economy.
When date did the US enter the Vietnam war?
November 1, 1955
This amendment guarantees the right to vote regardless of gender (woman's suffrage)
19th Amendment
What was the economic system of the US during the industrial age?
Capitalism
What drew Germany into WW1?
After Russia entered the war to protect Serbia, Germany declared war on Russia to protect Austria-Hungary.
To what World War II event was Franklin D. Roosevelt referring when he describe it as a “day that will live in infamy?”
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor