A free thinking woman during the 1920s who adopted the latest fashion and urban attitudes of the 1920s.
What is a flapper?
100
A group of World War I veterans who marched on Washington D.C. to demand payment of their money promised for their military service.
What is the Bonus Army?
100
The U.S. program to develop the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
100
The first satellite sent into space.
What is sputnik?
100
A militant African-American political organization formed in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.
What is the Black Panther Party?
200
An idea that wanted the US to stay completely separate from other countries so they would not be entangled in their political and economical affairs.
What is isolationism?
200
A law enacted in 1935 to provide aid to retirees, the unemployed, people with disabilities, and families with dependent children.
What is Social Security?
200
A name given to the time when the Allies launched an invasion of Europe at Normandy, France.
What is D-Day?
200
A defensive military alliance formed between 10 Western European countries, the US, and Canada.
What is NATO?
200
The police commissioner of Birmingham, AL who used brutal tactics to put down Civil Rights advocates.
Who is Bull Connor?
300
A movement that focused on the expression of African American culture through poetry, music, and theater.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
300
A name given to the time when the Stock Market crashed.
What is Black Tuesday?
300
A sudden, massive attack with combined air and ground forces, "lightening war"
What is blitzkrieg?
300
The attacks, often unsubstantiated (without true evidence), on people suspected of being Communists in the early 1950s.
What is McCarthyism?
300
A Civil Rights protest on interstate bus travel that had CORE and SNCC supporters riding from the North through the South. The first one left Washington D.C. and headed for New Orleans.
What is the Freedom Rides?
400
Wrote the Great Gatsby
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
400
This president believed in a hands off approach when it came to the economy believing that it was up to the people to upright the economy.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
400
The political philosophy based on nationalism, racism, and militaristic expansion.
What is Nazism?
400
The first leader of the communist party in China.
Who is Mao Zedong?
400
the protest rally at which Martin Luther king, Jr. gave his "I have a Dream" speech.
What is the March on Washington?
500
An arrangement in which a purchaser borrows money to buy an item and then pays it back over an extended time without having to put much money down.
What is an Installment Plan
500
A federal corporation established in 1933 to construct dams and power plants to generate electricity and flood control. It also helped to create jobs.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
500
The granting of concessions to a hostile power in order to keep peace.
What is appeasement?
500
a U.S. policy of providing economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents.
What is Truman's Doctrine?
500
An organization formed in 1957 by Martin Luther King, Jr. and other leaders to work for civil rights through nonviolent means.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference or the SCLC?