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100

The president of the U.S. during World War I.

Who is Woodrow Wilson?

100

The amendment that gave women the right to vote.

What is the 19th Amendment?

100

This event happened on December 7th, 1941

What is The Attack on Pearl Harbor

100

The strategy of providing billions of dollars in financial aid to Europe after World War II to help rebuild countries' economies and keep them from becoming Communist.

What is the Marshall Plan?

100

The city destroyed by the first Atomic Bomb used in warfare.

What is Hiroshima?

200

The President of South Vietnam prior to U.S. Military intervention.

Who is Ngo Dinh Diem

200

The environmental disaster in the great plains region during the great depression

What is the Dust Bowl?

200

The Allied invasion of Normandy

What is D-Day?

200

The tense standoff in the Caribbean between the United States and Soviet Union, that almost led Nuclear War. 

What is the Cuban Missile Crisis. 

200

The name of the Court case that outlawed segregation in schools in 1954.

What is Brown v Board of Education

300

The President at the start of the Great Depression

Who is Herbert Hoover?

300

The amendment that made the manufacture and distribution of alcohol illegal.

What is the 18th Amendment?

300

This battle was a turning point in the Pacific for the U.S. during World War II.

What is the Battle of Midway?

300

The theory adopted by the United States that supported intervention in Vietnam, and compared World affairs to a game.

What is Domino Theory?

300

The name of the program during World War II that developed the atomic bomb.

What is the Manhattan Project?

400

The Captain of Charlie Company during the Vietnam War

Who is Ernest Medina

400

The culture that places value on purchasing more and more things.

What is Consumerism

400

The formal name of the policy that called for the removal of Japanese Americans from the West Coast

What is Executive Order 9066

400

The act that created the CIA, National Security Advisory, to help fight the Cold War

What is the National Security Act of 1947

400

This law banned discrimination and segregation in public accommodations, housing, businesses, etc.

What is the Civil Rights act of 1964

500

The expert in Soviet politics, and policy advocate for Containment, known for publishing an article anonymously in Foreign Affairs advocating for active intervention.

Who is George Kennan

500

The New Deal program which provided jobs to young people working on parks, the environment, and sent youth to work camps around the country.

What is the Civilian Conservation Corps

500

The principal identified by Robert McNamara in Fog of War, about the actions a country should be willing to take during war.

What is war should be proportional?

500

The country that experienced a CIA coup that overthrew a democratically elected president, partially under the advice of an American Company.

What is Guatemala?

500

The deadliest battle of World War 2, in a city named after a famed leader.

What is the Battle of Stalingrad?