Progressive/1920s
Great Depression
World War II
Civil Rights Movement
Vietnam War
100

Jane Addams was the founder of this settlement house in Chicago.

What is Hull House?
100

This finally ended the Great Depression.

What is World War II?
100
This was the main strategy used in the Pacific Theater.

What is island hopping?

100

The case Brown v. Board of Education overturned the "separate but equal" clause in what previous Supreme Court case.

What is Plessy v. Ferguson?

100

This policy emphasized limiting the spread of communism.

What is containment?
200
These newcomers were mostly from southern & eastern European countries like Italy.

Who are the New Immigrants?

200

This group cost President Hoover his public support when they marched on Washington DC.

What is the Bonus Army?

200

Franklin Roosevelt said this event "will live in infamy."

What is Pearl Harbor attack?

200

Many people began moving to neighborhoods in suburbs in the 1950s given this nickname.

What are Levittowns?
200

The gay rights movement really took off with riots at this bar in New York.

What is the Stonewall Inn?
300
For President Wilson this was the most important part of WWI peace negotiations.

What is the League of Nations?

300
This New Deal program gave environmental jobs to young men.

What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?

300
This program allowed the US to give war supplies to the Allies before the US was officially involved in the war. 

What is the lend-lease program?

300

For much of his life Malcolm X was a follower of this religious group.

What is the Nation of Islam?
300
Richard Nixon said he spoke for this group of people in the 1968 presidential election.

Who is the Silent Majority?

400
The Universal Negro Improvement Association was founded by this man.

Who is Marcus Garvey?

400

This is one of the surviving programs from the New Deal even though it was meant to be temporary.

What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?

400

The United States became this phrase when they became financially involved in World War II in 1940. 

What is the "arsenal of democracy"?

400

Martin Luther King's belief in breaking unjust laws was one aspect of this method during the Civil Rights Movement.

What is civil disobedience?

400

This event in 1968 was considered a military failure but was actually a political and social success.

What is the Tet Offensive?
500

This congressional policy limited the number of immigrants from each nation to specific quotas. 

What is the Johnson-Reed Act?
500

New Deal programs did very little to combat this, especially in the eyes of Black sharecroppers.

What is racial discrimination?

500

This presidential policy ended discrimination within the defense industry?

What is Executive Order 8802?

500

This man was one of the founders of the Black Panthers. 

Who is Huey P. Newton?

500

This man was the leader of democratic South Vietnam until his assassination in 1963.

Who is Ngo Dinh Diem?