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The senator from North Dakota who traveled the country advocating neutrality and isolationism.

Who is Gerald Nye?

100
The nickname for cookie-cutter neighborhoods built during the cold war; named for their chief designer.
What are Levittowns?
100
The landmark Supreme Court case that outlawed segregation in schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
100

The Secretary of State's idea on how to help bring Europe back from the destruction of war and to increase its loyalty to the United States.

What is the Marshall Plan?

100

The senator who claimed to have evidence of communist spies at high levels within the US government. 

Who is Joseph McCarthy?

200

Roosevelt's last major conference, aimed at shaping the post-war peace and establishing a plan for the future of Germany.

What is Yalta?

200
Betty Friedan's study on women and the influence of the media on popular perception of a "woman's role" in the 1950s.
What is the Feminine Mystique?
200
This event established Martin Luther King, jr. as a national leader on civil rights.
What is the Montgomery bus boycott?
200

The general who landed UN troops at Incheon in the Korean conflict.

Who is Douglas MacArthur?

200

The place, in 1969, where all the forces of counterculture came together to celebrate peace, love, and freedom.

What is Woodstock?

300

According to your text, nothing during World War II raised more wrenching questions of human good and evil than what is known as this.

What is the Holocaust?

300
Disastrous invasion of Cuba, 1961.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
300
This act abolished the National Origins immigration quotas of the early 1900s.
What is the Immigration Act of 1965?
300

The major effort undertaken to supply a German city with everything it needed to survive its Soviet blockade.

What is the Berlin Airlift?

300

The Supreme Court decisions that struck down 46 state laws concerning abortion.

What is Roe v. Wade?

400

This battle halted the Japanese advance and broke Japanese naval supremacy in the Pacific.

What is Midway?

400
The first Catholic president of the United States?
Who is John F. Kennedy?
400
The era in Supreme Court history that saw the greatest strengthening of the rights of the accused.
What is the Warren Court Era or the Warren Court?
400

The Truman Doctrine sent significant aid to these two countries after WWII.

What are Greece and Turkey?

400

In this decade church membership grew to more than half the population for the first time in the twentieth century.


What are the 1950s?

500

FDR invoked the "garden hose" metaphor to win support for this program.

What is Lend-Lease?

500
The closest the world ever came to nuclear annihilation.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
500

This famous Supreme Court case required that every person placed under arrest must be apprised of his rights at the time of his arrest.

What is Miranda v. Arizona? 

500

The frozen river that Chinese military forces walked across to reinforce North Korean fighters.

What is the Yalu River?

500

LBJ's opponent in the 1964 election.

Who is Barry Goldwater?