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100
This war began in 1950 and ended in 1953.
What is the Korean War?
100
This president took over after John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
100
This alliance/set of countries battled the United States as the second postwar superpower.
What is the Soviet Union?
100
This refers to the development of residential communities around larger urban areas during the 1950s.
What is suburbanization?
100
This name was given to the same time period as the Harlem Renaissance because it the country was doing so well economically (and culturally).
What is "The Roaring Twenties"?
200
This name of a time period actually refers to the end of World War II and the economic and cultural boom that followed.
What is the postwar era?
200
This President created the "New Deal" for America.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
200
This Cold War event is named "the closest the United States ever came to full-out nuclear war" by many historians.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
200
This congressional committee investigated accused "communists" during the mid-20th century.
What is the HUAC?
200
This is the climactic event that contributed to migration during the Great Depression.
What is the Dust Bowl?
300
This war happened in the 1860s and changed the course of the country.
What is the Civil War?
300
This senator prompted the United States Senate to investigate "communists" on a large scale and became a household name.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
300
This was the first smaller, "hot" war.
What is the Korean War?
300
This is the separation of races that has been passed down in socio-cultural ways or has become "habit" or "norm" to do.
What is de facto segregation?
300
This was a program that created semi-permanent guest workers and stemmed from a guest laborer program from Mexico.
What is the Bracero program?
400
This World War II tragedy happened on American soil.
What is Pearl Harbor?
400
This President created the Peace Corps.
Who is John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
400
This was the decade that the Cold War officially ended.
What is the 1990s?
400
This university held the strongest, most politically organized student protest groups during the 1960s.
What is UC Berkeley?
400
This system exchanged political jobs for votes for a particular candidate and originated in the late 1800s.
What is the Spoils System?
500
Man who became President of the United States when Abraham Lincoln died
Who is Andrew Johnson?
500
Maximum number of years a person can be President of the United States, established by the Twenty-Second Amendment
What is ten?
500
The invasion of this country in September 1939 marked the beginning of World War II
What is Poland?
500
First Republican President of the United States
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
500
Amendment repealed by the Twenty-First Amendment
What is the Eighteenth Amendment?