The Great Depression
A statistic which expresses the percentage of a country's labor force (available workers) who do not have jobs at a specified time.
What is the Unemployment Rate?
Giving in to a party's demands to avoid conflict with that party. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has historically been criticized for this.
What is Appeasement?
The two superpowers who competed for global influence in the four and a half decades immediately following the Second World War.
What are the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics aka the USSR aka the Soviet Union?
Martin Luther King was assassinated in this city.
What is Memphis, Tennessee?
What genre of music was pioneered and popularized by Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and other artists in the 1950s?
What is Rock n' Roll?
1941 event which caused the United States to declare war on the Empire of Japan and their allies Nazi Germany.
What is the Bombing of Pearl Harbor?
Arguably the most tense moment of the Cold War, when mutual nuclear annihilation seemed imminent.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)?
A significant piece of civil rights legislation which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, and religion in employment, education, and access to public facilities
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Irradiated particles which descend slowly to the ground after being thrust into the air by nuclear explosions. Shelters were built throughout the Cold War to help people protect themselves from this in case of a nuclear explosion.
What is nuclear fallout?
A mass, panic-driven attempt to withdraw money from a financial institution for fear of that institution's inviability or imminent collapse. Ironically, this is often the proximate cause of the collapses which people seek to avoid.
What is a Bank Run?
A political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
What is Fascism?
A period of terrible natural disasters during the Great Depression caused by severe drought and wind erosion in the Great Plains.
What was the Dust Bowl?
The first group of African American military pilots. They are named after the base in Alabama where they trained.
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
US foreign policy regarding communism after the Second World War. Based on the idea that the United States would not let Soviet communism spread to parts of the world where it did not already exist.
What is Containment?
The Supreme Court case which reversed Plessy v. Ferguson and led to the outlawing of racial segregation in schools.
What is Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
The largest concrete structure in the world at the time of its construction. It generates power for utility companies in Nevada, Arizona, and California.
What is the Hoover Dam?
A man who was Louisiana's governor as well as it's US Senator towards the end of his life. Argued that there should not be extremely poor people or extremely rich people in the United States, but rather incomes should be capped at a point and everybody should be guaranteed a house, a car, and a radio?
Who was Huey Long aka The Kingfish?
The idea that the government shouldn't interfere with the economy
What is Laisseze Faire.
The city where the 1963 speech for Jobs and Freedom took place and MLK gave his famous "I Have A Dream" speech.
What is Washington?
This president weighed over 330 pounds and once got stuck in a bathtub
Who is President Taft?