The position the US first took at the start of WWI?
What is neutral?
100
The four underlying causes of a world war
What is Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism and Nationalism?
100
The idea that if one country falls to communism in Southeast Asia all other countries will fall.
What is the Domino Theory?
100
The person who sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
Symbolized the end of the Cold War
What is the taking down of the Berlin Wall?
200
The spark of WWI
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
200
The German invasion of Poland
What is the spark of WWII?
200
Wars fought to stop the spread of communism.
What is the Korean and Vietnam war?
200
A protest where African American students sat at all white facilities to protest segregation.
What is a sit-in?
200
Money that a defeated nation pays for the destruction caused by war
What are reparations?
300
A British passenger ship that was torpedoed by the Germans killing 128 Americans.
What is the sinking of the Lusitania?
300
A peace agreement made at the end of WWI that blamed the Germans for the war. This helped lead to WWII.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
300
In response to this event, the US set up a blockade and threatened to use its own missiles if needed.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
300
The case the led to the desegregation of public schools.
What is the Brown v. Board of Education?
300
The capitalistic alliance formed at the start of the Cold War?
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization? (NATO)
400
A message sent from the German foreign minister to the German ambassador in Mexico to propose that Mexico join the side of the Germans in WWI.
What is Zimmermann Telegram?
400
To save American soldiers lives
What is the official justification for the US dropping atomic bombs on Japan?
400
An imaginary line that divided communist and capitalism countries in Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
400
A peaceful demonstration where people purposely break laws they see as unjust.
What is civil disobedience?
400
Allowed the US to lend weapons to its allies while remaining "neutral"
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
500
A practice of using submarines to attack and sink all forms of enemy ships, whether they are military or civilian. This was popularly used by the Germans.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
500
Justified the use of Japanese Internment camps
What is the Korematsu v. the US Supreme Court case?
500
Mass hysteria caused by making radical accusations of innocent people being communist
What is McCarthyism?
500
The person who influenced MLK to use non-violent measures and civil disobedience.