Great Depression
This refers to Roosevelt's attempt to increase the number of federal judges to pass the Second New Deal without obstacles.
What is court packing?
This military general was responsible for D-Day
Who was Eisenhower?
This refers to Harry Truman's plan to provide aid to those fighting communism, particularly in Greece and Turkey.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This refers to the CIA's attempt to conquer Cuba. It was a disaster.
What was Bay of Pigs?
He resigned from the presidency after refusing to provide tapes that may have incriminated him
Who was Richard Nixon?
This was Hoover's economic plan for trying to perform trickle-down economics to fix the Great Depression.
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?
This supreme court case refers to the government's affirmation that people could be detained in camps as a matter of national security.
What was Korematsu v. US?
This was Stalin's plan to prevent people from entering or leave Communist Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
This refers to an event that almost led to a nuclear holocaust. It led to both the US and USSR removing nuclear missiles from within range of hitting each other.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This incident led to Americans pushing President Carter to stop pursuing nuclear energy.
What was Three Mile Island?
Also known as pump priming, this was Roosevelt's economic policy to fix the Great Depression.
What is Keynesian Economics?
This was when the Japanese forced prisoners of war to march to prison camps under threat of death.
What was the Bataan Death March?
After the failure of the League of Nations, this global organization was created as a forum for countries to discuss international disputes as well as find solutions to counter crimes against humanity.
What is the United Nations?
This president was assassinated in 1963.
Who was John F. Kennedy?
This organization was created by Richard Nixon to protect the environment from pollution.
What is the EPA?
This was the group of WWI vets who created a Hooverville in D.C. to protest for financial assistance.
What was the Bonus Army?
After Hiroshima, this was the second target hit by an atomic bomb, which ended World War II.
What is Nagasaki?
This was the first war involving the United Nations and occurred because the Soviet Union was boycotting participation in the U.N. as a protest against China being left out of it, preventing them from voting against the war.
What was the Korean War?
This event led to America's entry into the Vietnam War as frontline combatants
What was the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?
This is the name for the meetings Carter used to pursue peace in the Middle East.
What is the Camp David Accords?
This was Hoover's attempt to encourage the purchasing of American industrial products, but the decision intensified international trade relations.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff?
Who was Harry Truman?
This refers to the American policy that communism could be defeated as long as it was not allowed to spread out of Eastern Europe.
What was containment theory?
This chemical was used to destroy the foliage of the land, but it led to severe birth defects
What is Agent Orange?
This incident was, for many Americans, their final straw concerning Carter's foreign policy. They saw him as weak and voted for a republican in the 1980 election.
What was the Iran Hostage Crisis?