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Roaring '20s
Great Depression
World War II
Cold War
Civil Rights Movement
100
Innovation made by Henry Ford that dramatically increased industrial production
What is the assembly line?
100
Result of drought and poor soil conditions
What is the Dust Bowl?
100
Hatred and discrimination towards Jewish people
What is anti-Semitism?
100
Term for the accusations and fear of communism that existed in the U.S. during the Cold War
What is the Red Scare?
100
Martin Luther King Jr. followed this man's model of nonviolent resistance
Who is Gandhi?
200
Term for the time period when the sale, manufacture, and distribution of alcohol was banned
What is Prohibition?
200
FDR's first objective as President was to improve and restore public confidence in this
What are the banks?
200
Making sacrifices in exchange for peace
What is appeasement?
200
Truman's foreign policy during the Cold War
What is containment?
200
Most popular leader of the Nation of Islam
Who is Malcolm X?
300
Court case involving a teacher who violated a Tennessee law by teaching evolution in public school
What is the Scopes Trial?
300
Herbert Hoover's response to the Great Depression
What is "rugged individualism"?
300
First Japanese city where the atomic bomb was dropped
What is Hiroshima?
300
U.S. responds to Stalin's blockade by airlifting in supplies
What is the Berlin Airlift?
300
Rosa Parks' arrest sparked this event
What is the Montgomery bus boycott?
400
Court case involving two Italian immigrants who were convicted of murder despite flimsy evidence
What is the Sacco-Vanzetti case?
400
Largest public works project of the New Deal
What is the Works Progress Administration?
400
Turning point in the Pacific war after which Japan had to go on the defensive
What is the Battle of Midway?
400
Eisenhower's foreign policy during the Cold War
What is brinkmanship?
400
Formed in Oakland, CA, to protest against police brutality
What is the Black Panther Party?
500
People buying things that they don't necessarily need
What is consumerism?
500
Created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
What is the Glass-Steagall Act?
500
Germany's first major defeat in WWII
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
500
Mutual defense organization created to protect against a possible Soviet attack
What is NATO?
500
Outlawed literacy tests and other tactics used to deny African Americans the right to vote
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?