The Roaring 20s
This 18th Amendment made the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol illegal.
What is Prohibition?
The "spark" that started World War I in Europe.
What was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
The date the stock market crashed, known as "Black Tuesday."
What is October 29, 1929?
The "imaginary" line separating communist Eastern Europe from democratic Western Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
The Supreme Court case that overturned "separate but equal" in public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Young women of the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, and listened to jazz.
Who are Flappers?
Sensationalized news reporting that helped push the U.S. into the Spanish-American War.
What is yellow journalism?
The environmental disaster on the Great Plains caused by drought and over-farming.
What was the Dust Bowl?
The U.S. policy of trying to stop the spread of communism rather than destroying it.
What is containment?
This 1964 act banned discrimination in public places and employment.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
A flowering of African American artistic, intellectual, and literary culture based in New York City.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
The movement of African Americans from the rural South to Northern cities during WWI.
What was the Great Migration?
This New Deal program was created to provide old-age pensions and unemployment insurance.
What is Social Security (SSA)?
The 13-day confrontation in 1962 that brought the U.S. and USSR to the brink of nuclear war.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The Cold War "theory" that if one country fell to communism, surrounding countries would also fall.
What is the Domino Theory?
This 1925 trial in Tennessee centered on the teaching of evolution in public schools.
What was the Scopes "Monkey" Trial?
This 1917 telegram from Germany to Mexico proposed an alliance against the United States.
What was the Zimmerman Telegram?
The name for FDR’s radio broadcasts used to reassure the American public.
What are Fireside Chats?
This massive aid package was designed to help rebuild Western Europe after WWII to prevent communist takeovers.
What was the Marshall Plan?
This 1970s scandal led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
What is Watergate?
He became a national hero in 1927 by completing the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
The foreign policy of Teddy Roosevelt that stated the U.S. would use force to protect interests in Latin America.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary (or Big Stick Diplomacy)?
This specific New Deal agency was created to build dams and provide electricity to rural areas.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
The 1950s "witch hunt" for suspected communists in the U.S. government led by a Wisconsin Senator.
What is McCarthyism?
This 1968 offensive by the North Vietnamese was a turning point that lowered U.S. public support for the war.
What was the Tet Offensive?