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Imperialism and World War I
Great Depression
World War II
The 1950's
The 1960's
100
The act of exaggerating news stories in the hopes of selling a lot of papers.
What is yellow journalism?
100
The act of buying stocks with money that has been loaned to you by a bank.
What is "buying on margin?"
100
Germany, Japan, and Italy
What are the Axis Powers?
100
Alliance between the US and the Western European countries
What is NATO?
100
Turning point in the war with US public opinion against the Vietnam conflict; Vietcong attack South Vietnam.
What is the Tet Offensive?
200
A note from Germany to Mexico, asking the Mexican government to declare war on the United States.
What is the Zimmermann note?
200
Resulting in the banning of alcohol in the US, also known as "Prohibition".
What is the 18th Amendment?
200
June 6th, 1944: Major turning point of the war as Allied forces gain a foothold back in Europe to take it back from Germany.
What is D-Day?
200
Alliance between the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
200
Supreme Court case that ruled that segregation in schools was illegal.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
300
Ended World War I with the Allied Powers being victorious; blames Germany for the war.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
300
A white supremacist group that was violent towards African-Americans.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
300
Top-secret US program to develop the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
300
An explosion in US population after World War II.
What is the "baby boom"?
300
The act of disobeying laws that one feels are unjust.
What is civil disobedience?
400
An addition to the Monroe Doctrine that reserved the US's right to intervene militarily in the affairs of Latin American countries.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
400
The name of FDR's social programs designed to repair the country during the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
400
A series of laws passed in the 1930's to keep the US out of WWII.
What are the Neutrality Acts?
400
A policy of supplying military aid to countries fighting communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
400
A series of leaked files that revealed the US mismanagement of the Vietnam War.
What are the Pentagon Papers?
500
Points made by Woodrow Wilson to establish a lasting, worldwide peace and the League of Nations.
What is the Fourteen Points?
500
The government agency responsible for regulation and ensuring fairness in the Stock Market.
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission?
500
The process of bypassing major Japanese bases for smaller ones in hopes of getting closer to Japan to bomb them.
What is "island hopping"?
500
The relationship between the government, big business, and the military.
What is the Military Industrial Complex?
500
The act of discrimination based on long-held societal beliefs and claims.
What is de jure segregation?