World War II
This surprise attack in Hawaii brought the United States into World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
The U.S. policy designed to stop the spread of communism.
What is containment?
This woman refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This theory claimed that if one country became communist nearby countries would follow.
What is the Domino Theory?
This scandal forced President Nixon to resign.
What is Watergate?
This Allied invasion of France in 1944 helped liberate Western Europe.
What is D-Day?
This aid program helped rebuild Europe after World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This Supreme Court case ended segregation in public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This was the first war Americans regularly watched on television.
What is the Vietnam War?
This department was created by Richard Nixon to help prevent environmental problems and protect the environment.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
These Alabama pilots became famous for their success during World War II.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
This political theory is the reason that the U.S. became involved in the Vietnam War.
What is the Domino Theory?
This civil rights leader promoted nonviolent protest and gave the “I Have a Dream” speech.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
The Vietnam War was fought to stop the spread of this.
What is Communism?
Reagan’s economic plan became known as this type of economics.
What is Reaganomics?
The United States dropped atomic bombs on these two Japanese cities.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This period of US History involved the fear of communism within the United States and is usually depicted as false claims of communists.
What is McCarthyism?
This 1965 march in Alabama helped lead to the Voting Rights Act. (also called Bloody Sunday)
What is the Selma March?
This massacre of Vietnamese civilians shocked many Americans.
What is the My Lai Massacre?
This economic problem combined inflation with slow economic growth in the 1970s.
What is stagflation?
What is 1945?
This competition between the U.S. and USSR included nuclear weapons and space technology.
What is the arms/space race?
This leader promoted Black nationalism and the phrase “by any means necessary.”
Who is Malcolm X?
This is the name of the cultural movement that typically protested the involvement in the Vietnam War and is generally known as the "hippie" movement
What is counterculture?
This scandal involved secret arms sales to Iran and aid to the Contras.
What is the Iran-Contra Scandal?