From 1930-1939, this is the name of Roosevelt's plan to get the U.S. out of the Great Depression. It greatly expanded the role of the federal government.
What is the New Deal?
100
The Killing of six million Jewish people by the Nazis.
What is the Holocaust?
100
The competition between the United Staes and the Soviet Union from 1947-1989. Democracy versus Communism. It ended with the collapse of Communist countries in east Europe.
What is the Cold War?
100
The first 10 amendments of the U.S. constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
100
1914-1918
What is World War I?
200
A drought in the Plains states, worsened by poor farming techniques, it forced many farmers to leave the area and migrate to California.
What is the Dust Bow?
200
U.S., Great Britain, and Russia
What are the Allied Powers?
200
The competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to decide which country would be superior in space technology. The Soviet Union led for many years. but the U.S. "won" when America landed a man on the moon in 1969.
What is the Space Race?
200
This 9-0 Supreme Court landmark decision banned segregated school in the United States, thereby overturning Plessy vs. Ferguson.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education, 1954?
200
1929-1941
What is the Great Depression?
300
This ultimately led to the end of the Great Depression.
What is World War II?
300
THis was the invasion of Europe (via France) by the Allies to finally defeat Hitler and the Germans, June 6, 1944.
What is D-Day?
300
The growth of communities around big cities from the 1950's to today.
What is suburbanization?
300
This amendment gave women the right to vote, ratified in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
300
1870-1920
What is the height of immigration to the United States?
400
THis is a major financial program to provide some retirement income to Americans 65 and older.
What is Social Security?
400
The secret development of the atomic bomb by the U.S. during World War II.
What is the Manhattan Project?
400
The alliance of European countries and the U.S. If any of these countries are attacked, the others will come to their defense.
What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
400
Founded in 1907, it is the largest civil rights organization for African Americans in the United States.
What is the NAACP?
400
1961-1973
What is the Vietnam War?
500
An iconic female photographer, she captured the plight of Americans during the Great Depression in her exquisite photographs. She was employed by the New Deal program WPA to document America during this time.
Who is Dorthea Lange?
500
To give in or yield to another country, such as England and France did with Germany in 1938-39.
What is appeasement?
500
The fear many Americans had that communism would take over the United States. The reputations of many people were destroyed when they were accused of links to the Communist Part.
What is McCarthyism and the Red Scare?
500
This outlawed any discrimination in public places in the United States, including motels, restaurants, retail stores, and transportation.