During World War II, President Roosevelt used this policy as a way to get weapons to the Allieds while circumventing the Neutrality Acts.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
100
This plan was enacted at the end of World War II to help build up and stabilized war torn countries in Europe in hopes they will not turn communist.
What is the Marshall Plan?
100
This conflict saw five American presidents come and go. It was also the most difficult for any of them to exit from.
What is the Vietnam Conflict?
100
President Johnson sought to end poverty in America with this program?
What is the Great Society?
100
Demand for housing increased following World War II because of this generational term.
What is the baby boom?
200
This attack on United States soil led to the declaration of war on Japan.
What is the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?
200
To overcome a blockade placed of East Germany enacted by the Soviets, Allied forces got supplies to West Berlin this way.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
200
Because of fear from Nuclear attacks during the Cold War many Americans built this.
What is bomb shelters?
200
The Supreme Court cases of Gideon v. Wainwright and Miranda v. Arizona determined that the persons convicted of crimes had been denied this.
What is due process of law?
200
This system in America faces threats from an increase in the number of recipients thanks to the baby boomers. President George W. Bush even tried to reform it.
What is Social Security?
300
This part of American society was mobilized during the war to takeover the jobs the soldiers had to leave behind. "Its a tradition with us, Mister!"
Who are the women of America?
300
This Senator investigated allegations of communist influences in government.
Who is Senator Joseph McCarthy?
300
This Supreme Court Case put an end to segregation in public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas?
300
Bob Dylan's song "The Times They Are A-Changin'" portrays this gap in American Society.
What is the generation gap?
300
Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, this new Department was created.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
400
The potential loss of American lives from an invasion of Japan led to this President Truman decision.
What is the dropping of the atomic bomb?
400
The Truman Doctrine, defending South Korea and sending military advisers to Vietnam are all methods of doing this.
What is limit the spread of communism?
400
To enforce Brown v. Board of Ed., President Truman was forced to send troops into this Arkansas city.
What is Little Rock?
400
The Watergate break-in led to this by President Richard Nixon.
What is his resignation of the office of the President?
400
This head of al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He has since been hunted down and killed.
What is Osama bin Laden?
500
It established that high officials and individuals are responsible for their war time actions and added it to international law.
What is the Nuremburg Trials?
500
The secret, swift and extraordinary buildup of communist missiles in Cuba during Kennedy's presidency is known as this.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
500
This Act was the culminating event for all of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s work, including the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the March on Washington.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
500
The tearing down of the Berlin Wall symbolizes the end of this.
What is the Cold War?
500
This man was accused, but acquitted of murder in the second degree charges in the death of a 17 year old in Florida.