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How "Depressing"
This Means WAR!
Hot and Cold
Lets Be "Civil"
Mix it Up!
100
Great Depression President for 12 years! Promised lots of government help!
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)?
100

Many dictators such as Benito Mussulini of Italy encourage citizens to put their countries needs ahead of their own.

What is Fascism

100
This city and country was divided into 4 sections following World War II
What is Berlin and Germany
100
A good way to protest injustice - people just stop buying or spending money on something. Rosa Parks helped start one against the Montgomery Bus System - even though she wasn't "really" tired...
What is a boycott
100

Americans were kidnapped and held for 444 days, until Reagan was inaugurated

Iron Hostage Crisis

200
Name of FDR's plan to pull us out of the Depression. Consisted of numerous acts and agencies that promised reform, recovery and relief!
What is the New Deal
200
This treaty ended the first World War and is blamed by many for creating conditions of poverty that gave rise to Adolf Hitler
What is the Treaty of Versailles
200
What did Winston Churchill claim had "descended" across Europe - dividing it between democracy and communism
What is the Iron Curtain
200
Images of this young man's corpse created outrage against racial injustice and sympathy from those hadn't really thought about the problem before...
Who is Emmitt Till
200
A break-in by the Commitee to Re-elect the president at this office complex ultimately led to the Presidents impeachment and resignation
What is Watergate
300

One of the main causes of Depression. This is buying stock with only 10% down payment while borrowing the rest.

What is Buying on Margin

300
Giving in to the demands of someone in hopes that they will be satisfied and demand nothing else. This technique was used by European nations like Britain with Hitler but he just kept taking and taking....
What is appeasement
300
name for the panic and fear of communism in the United States during the late '40s and early '50s that led to bomb shelters and scary movies (two word answer)
What is the Red Scare
300
Martin Luther King and this organization led by southern ministers called for use of non-violence to an end to racial injustice
What is SCLC or the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
300
Built to keep people from leaving - this structure finally "fell" in 1989
What is the Berlin Wall
400
This New Deal agency gave young men jobs clearing land, digging ditches and planting trees. They lived in military-style campls while most of the money they earned was sent back home to their families!
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
400
In response to Pearl Harbor, racially motivated mistrust of Japanese-Americans grew to such an extent that they were forced into these camps
What are internment camps
400
This "effect" led to American troops being sent to Korea to keep it and neighboring countries from "falling" to communism. The idea is that when one country becomes communist, other countries will too
What is the Domino Effect
400
Stokely Carmichael and others called for an end to mistreatment by white authorities. This group called for Black Power - embrace black culture instead of trying to integrate with whites - and use force if necessary
Who are the Black Panthers
400
This lone gunman was ultimately blamed for the death of JFK by the Warren Commission
Who is Lee Harvey Oswald
500
While great at raising the hopes and spirits of the population, the New Deal was only partially successful in fixing the economy. The New Deal actually ended when this began.
What is World War II
500
This finally ended the war against Japan.
What were the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
500
When the communists closed all access to West Berlin in hopes that the US and British would just give up, the US flew in tons of food and supplies until the communists once again allowed access
What is the Berlin Airlift
500
This "March" in 1963 was the largest Civil Rights event. Martin Luther King gave his "I Have a Dream" speech and others protested peacefully to try and get congress to pass civil rights legislation
What is the March on Washington
500
Year that the Cold War finally ended - due to the break up of the former Soviet Union into multiple countries
What is 1991