Great Depression
What caused the Dust Bowl?
Drought and poor farming practices
What event brought the U.S. into WWII?
Pearl Harbor
What was the goal of containment?
Stop the spread of communism
Which case ended school segregation?
Brown v. Board of Education
What scandal caused Nixon to resign?
Watergate
What was Hoover's approach to the Depression?
Rugged individualism and limited government aid
What military strategy was used against Japan?
Island Hopping
What divided Berlin after WWII?
Iron Curtain/occupation zones
Who led the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Martin Luther King Jr.
What trade agreement linked the U.S., Canada, and Mexico?
NAFTA
Who created the New Deal?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
What was Blitzkrieg?
Lightning war using tanks and aircraft
What was NATO?
Military alliance against Soviet expansion
What organization organized sit-ins?
SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)
What government agency was created after 9/11?
Department of Homeland Security
What did the New Deal try to accomplish?
Relief, Recovery, and Reform
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
African American fighter pilots
What was the Warsaw Pact?
Soviet alliance
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?
Outlawed discrimination
What was Operation Iraqi Freedom?
U.S. invasion of Iraq
What economic theory supported government spending during the Depression?
Keynesian Economics
What was the Double V Campaign?
Victory abroad and victory against racism at home
What was the Berlin Airlift?
Airlifted supplies to West Berlin
What was Freedom Summer?
Voter registration campaign in Mississippi
What was another name for the Affordable Care Act?
ACA or Obamacare