1920s
Many blamed the first Red Scare and rising nativism for the guilty verdict in the trail of these two Italian anarchists.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti
October 29, 1929 is also known by this name.
What is Black Tuesday?
December 7, 1941 was the day of this infamous event leading the US into WWII.
What is the Attack on Pearl Harbor
The Space Race kicked off in 1957 when the Soviet Union launched this satellite into orbit.
What is Sputnik?
This man led the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLS) and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King?
The expansion of this terrorist group occurred in the early 1920s, during which time it targeted African Americans, communists, immigrants.
What is the KKK?
This action taken by investors in the 1920s is defined as borrowing money from banks in order to buy stocks.
What is margin buying?
This major amphibian landing by the Allied Powers on the shores of France turned the tide for the Allies against Germany on the Western front in 1944.
What is the Invasion of Normandy/D-Day?
This was the term used by the United States to describe its foreign policy of stopping the spread of communism and Soviet influence.
What is containment?
This 1954 Supreme Court case dealing with segregation in schools overturned the Plessy v Ferguson decision, stating the separate is NOT equal.
What is Brown v. The Board of Education?
The Volstead Act, also known as this amendment, became the first amendment to ever be repealed.
What is the 18th Amendment, Prohibition?
Texas and Oklahoma and the entire Great Plains region suffered years of overproduction, poor crop rotation, and drought leading to this environmental event.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Converting factories into defense plants, conserving war materials, and mobilizing the peace-time economy was the responsibility of this WWII government agency.
What is the War Productions Board?
This Republican senator led the witch-hunt against suspected communists in Hollywood and in government.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
The law, signed by Lyndon B. Johnson, outlawed segregation in all public spaces and banned discrimination in the workplace based on race, religion, ethnicity.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This teacher began teaching Darwinism, going against Christian fundamentalism and tradition.
Who is John T. Scopes?
Unlike Hoover, FDR proposed THIS plan which used the Federal Government to tackle major problems caused by the Depression through relief, reform, and recovery measures.
What is the New Deal?
This 1941 law loosened up the Cash and Carry Act to allow more US assistance to the Allied powers fighting in WWII.
What is Lend Lease Act?
Western European nations combined with the United States, Canada and Iceland to create this military alliance.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO?)
This young peoples' civil rights group was prevalent on universities and took part in the lunch counter sit-ins and freedom rides through the south.
What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?
This type of buy now, save later plan allowed many Americans to buy the new gadgets of the 20s using credit.
What is an Installment Plan?
This New Deal program provides monthly financial relief for those who are disabled and unable to work, and for retired people.
What is Social Security?
The rise of this political ideology in Europe after WWI led to the rise of Hitler in Germany and Mussolini in Italy.
What is fascism?
President Lyndon B. Johnson escalate the Vietnam War in 1964 after Congress passed THIS law, giving the president power to wage war in Vietnam by any means necessary.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
This revolutionary political organization based in African American communities called for Black self-determination, self-sufficiency, safety and self defense.
What is the Black Panther Party?