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What was the term for the time in the 1930s where farmers faced disaster and left their fields to work in cities?
The Dust Bowl
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Who was the dictator in Italy, known as Il Duce, who founded the Fascist party?
Benito Mussolini
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What is the policy or process of preventing the expansion of a hostile power?
Containment
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The 1960 presidential race was the first time candidates made use of what medium to show the debate?
The television
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What is the name of the Supreme Court case that made "separate but equal" constitutional and continued segregation?
Plessy vs. Ferguson
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What is a system for buying and selling stocks of a corporation?
Stock Market
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What is a political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and no tolerance for opposition?
Fascism
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What are nations politically and economically dominated or controlled by another more powerful country?
Satellite Nations
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What began when the Soviet Union sent the first artificial spacecraft Sputnik into space?
The Space Race
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What is the name of the Supreme Court case that ended segregation in public schools?
Brown vs. Board of Education
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The stock market took its deepest dive on October 29, 1929, the day now known as what?
Black Tuesday
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What took citizenship away from Jewish Germans and banned marriage between Jews and other Germans?
Nuremberg Laws
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The Long Telegram resulted in the starting of what policy, attempting to stop Communism from spreading in the Cold War?
Containment
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President Lyndon B. Johnson made this to create a number of government programs to deal with different issues in the 1960s
The Great Society
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. believed that the only moral way to end segregation and racism was through what?
Peaceful, non-violent resistance
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What did President Hoover hope that public works would do? A) Provide jobs lost in the private sector B) Help reduce farm foreclosures
A) Provide jobs lost in the private sector
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What event finally brought the United States into World War II?
The bombing of Pearl Harbor
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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were charged with what crime during the Cold War? A) Being Communist Party members B) Passing atomic secrets to the Soviets
B) Passing atomic secrets to the Soviets
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On April 17, 1961, what incident occurred where armed Cuban exiles tried to invade the island, but failed and was embarrassing to President Kennedy?
The Bay of Pigs
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In what place did the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown vs. Board of Education end segregation?
Public Schools
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What was the name of the creator of the first animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
Walt Disney
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Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain during the time of World War II, who famously said, "we shall never surrender."
Winston Churchill
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What is the name of the Wisconsin senator who is known for "having a list" of Communists that were trying to take over the government?
Senator Joseph McCarthy
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What program did President Kennedy create to help less-developed nations fight poverty by providing humanitarian services?
The Peace Corps
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In what US city was there a boycott on public transportation?
Montgomery, Alabama