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100
Most historians point to this event as the start of the Great Depression.
What is the stock market crash?
100
This was the immediate cause of WWII.
What is the invasion of Poland by Germany?
100
The United States joined this organization, which was focused on world peace, but not the League of Nations.
What is the United Nations?
100
This Civil Rights leader preached nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr?
100
Scientists raced to build an atomic bomb in this top-secret government program.
What is the Manhattan Project?
200
This New Deal program helped retired people.
What is Social Security?
200
Japan expanded into China for this reason.
What are natural resources?
200
These two Cold War strategies used by American Presidents were similar in that they both tried to stop communism.
What are containment and brinkmanship?
200
Rosa Parks' arrest led to this specific event in 1955.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
200
This word means to use less of something to make it last; to conserve.
What is ration?
300
These provided an escape from reality during the Depression.
What are movies?
300
During this event, the Allies invaded Normandy, France.
What is D-Day?
300
Most historians agree that this event in 1962 was the closest the world came to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
300
The first Supreme Court case, in 1896, legalized segregation. The second, in 1954, made segregation illegal.
What is (1) Plessy v. Ferguson and (2) Brown v. Board?
300
This defensive alliance was formed in 1949 to protect member nations from outside attacks.
What is NATO?
400
These are three lasting programs of the New Deal.
What are Social Security, FDIC, SEC, TVA?
400
This nation originally sided with but was later invaded by Germany.
What is the Soviet Union (or USSR)?
400
This program provided $13 billion to rebuild European countries after WWII in the hopes of preventing the spread of communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
400
This Civil Rights leader rejected the Civil Rights Movement's emphasis on integration.
Who is Malcolm X?
400
This law prevents females from being excluded from athletic programs in schools.
What is Title IX?
500
FDR vetoed this bill to keep southern support for the New Deal.
What is the Anti-Lynching Bill?
500
This agreement was one of the long-term causes of WWII.
What is the Munich Agreement or the Treaty of Versailles?
500
This event marked the beginning of the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union.
What is the launching of Sputnik?
500
Finish this quote: "I have a dream that one day my four little children will not be judged by the color of their skin but by _________________"
What is character?
500
This actual event is an example of appeasement.
What is Munich?