1940s
This surprise attack in 1941 led the United States to enter World War II
What is the Attack on Pearl Harbor?
This conflict began in 1950 when the Northern communist country invaded its neighbor across the 38th parallel.
What is the Korean War?
This president created the Great Society programs.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This scandal led to President Nixon’s resignation in 1974.
What is the Watergate scandal?
This president promoted supply-side economics
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This project developed the first atomic bombs during World War II.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This Supreme Court case ended legal segregation in public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This event nearly brought the United States and Soviet Union into nuclear war in 1962.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
This wall symbolized the division between communist Eastern Europe and democratic Western Europe until 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall?
President Roosevelt called the United States this because it supplied weapons and materials to Allied nations.
What is the “Arsenal of Democracy”?
Senator Joseph McCarthy became famous for claiming these people had infiltrated the U.S. government.
Who are communists?
This civil rights organization, founded in 1960 by student activists, organized sit-ins, Freedom Rides, and voter registration drives throughout the South.
What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee?
This 1975 event marked the end of the Vietnam War, when North Vietnamese forces captured the capital of South Vietnam and the U.S. evacuated thousands of people
What is the Fall of Saigon?
This scandal involved secret arms sales to middle eastern country and aid to rebels in Nicaragua.
What is the Iran–Contra affair?
This program allowed the United States to send war materials to Allied countries before officially entering World War II.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
The Soviet launch of this satellite in 1957 shocked Americans and intensified the Space Race.
What is Sputnik 1?
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution greatly expanded U.S. involvement in this war.
What is the Vietnam War?
This Supreme Court case ruled that women have a constitutional right to an abortion under the right to privacy.
What is Roe v. Wade?
This disease emerged in the 1980s and became a major public health crisis in the United States, leading to widespread fear, activism, and a lack of government response for the gay community.
What is AIDS?
This Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of Japanese American internment during World War II.
What is Korematsu v. United States?
This discriminatory housing practice, often carried out by banks and the federal government, denied loans and mortgages to minority neighborhoods and contributed to segregation in American cities.
What is redlining?
This counterculture music festival became a symbol of 1960s youth culture.
What is Woodstock?
This 1970s energy crisis was triggered when Middle Eastern oil-producing nations reduced exports to the United States, leading to shortages and rising gas prices.
What is the 1973 oil crisis?
This proposed missile defense system announced by President Reagan in 1983 was nicknamed after a popular film franchise and aimed to protect the United States from nuclear attacks.
What is the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars)?