Americans were frightened by the triumph of Communism in Russia affter WWI and America experienced this:
What is the Red Scare?
100
This occurred on October 29, 1929 and set off a chain reaction causing the Great Depression.
What is the stock market crash?
100
New and improved weapons caused soldiers to engage in this warfare, causing a stalemate on the western front of the war.
What is trench warfare?
100
The German army developed a new form of offensive warfare - the rapid coordinated movements of airplanes, tanks, mechanized troop carriers and infantry.
What is blitzkrieg?
100
This person, with the NCAAP, persuaded the Supreme Court that segregated schools were "inherently unequal."
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
200
Several factors played into the 1920s economic prosperity. The most important was the spread of the automobile by this manufacturer.
Who is Henry Ford?
200
On the Great Plains, a spell of dry weather in the 1930s turned the soil into dust; farmers had to leave the_____ and migrated to California for farming work.
What is the Dust Bowl?
200
At the end of the war, the US took a stance of ___ to not get involved in future foreign affairs.
What is Isolationism?
200
American volunteers in the Pacific formed this squadron of airplanes that helped keep supply lines to China open.
What is the Flying Tigers?
200
In 1955, Rosa Parks sat in the white section of the segregated bus which led to this:
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
300
There was a clash of cultural values during the 20s and this law banned the sale of alcohol in America.
What is Prohibition?
300
About half a million Mexican-American workers were forcibly sent back to Mexico because of this Act.
What is the Mexican Repatriation Act?
300
Wilson envisioned a _____, an international peace keeping organization.
What is League of Nations?
300
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on this date, triggering our declaration of war on Japan.
What is December 7, 1941?
300
This Act made it illegal for hotels, restaurants, and other businesses to practice racial discrimination.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 64?
400
Women saw greater opportunities on the political scale when they secured the right to vote from this amendment.
What is the 19th Amendment?
400
Roosevelt proposed this program with insurance for the unemployed or retired in order to provide a safety net.
What is Social Security?
400
The most decorated soldier of WWI
Who is Alvin York?
400
Allied troops advanced rapidly through France and retook Paris, but were surprised when Germany counterattacked at:
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
400
LBJ started this, which established welfare programs to help get America out of poverty.
What is the Great Society?
500
The influx of African Americans moving to north Harlem, NY became the cultural hearth of this.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
500
Roosevelt's New Deal consisted of measures of:___, giving direct help to the people; ___ helping prime the economy, and ___ putting programs into place to prevent a depression from happening again.
What is relief, recovery, and reform?
500
Germany offered to help Mexico regain the American southwest through this.
What is the Zimmerman telegram?
500
Truman decided to use the new atomic bomb on these two cities to end the war quicker, with fewer casualties.
Where are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
500
Along with Dolores Huerta, he was a pioneer for the Chicano movement, helping migrant workers in Southwest America.