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20's
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Henry Ford developed the first one and it greatly increased mass production
What is an Assembly Line?
100
The aggressive policies attempted by President Franklin Roosevelt to address the Great Depression
What is the New Deal?
100
This Battle (also called Operation Overlord) enabled the Allied Forces to establish a new front in Europe and turned the battle in their favor
What is D-Day?
100
In 1949 became the second country to test atomic weapons
What is the Soviet Union/USSR?
100
This bill banned discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion or national origin
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
200
Customers are introduced to new products with increased
What is Advertising?
200
The group that ensures all bank deposits are safe up to a certain limit
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Company (FDIC)?
200
This battle in Russia stopped the German offensive and changed the course of the War
What is Stalingrad?
200
The first satellite launched into space
What is Sputnik?
200
Supreme Court decision ended the legal enforcement of Jim Crow and "Separate but Equal" laws
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
300
The belief that all government is bad
What is anarchy?
300
This organization regulates the Stock Market and protects investors
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)?
300
These are the two cities in Japan where the Nuclear Bombs were dropped effectively ending WW2
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
300
The leader of the USSR after Stalin died.
Who was Khruschev?
300
The fear of communists taking over businesses and political offices during the 1950's
What is McCarthyism
400
Fear of the spread of communism into the USA?
What is the Red Scare?
400
This is the name for items like roads, bridges, subways and airports
What is infrastructure?
400
The firebombing of these cities had minimal military significance but killed many civilians
What are Dresden and Tokyo?
400
This war ended in a stalemate, helped partially stop the spread of communism and established the Demilitarized Zone.
What is the Korean War?
400
More soldiers returned looking for homes, Levittown, more highways and road systems
What is the growth of suburbs?
500
The government response to the economy of the 1920's could be considered
What is Laissez Faire?
500
The part of the New Deal was ruled to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court
What is the National Recovery Act?
500
These trials held after WW2 ended showed the world's committment to justice and determining the innocence and guilt of German war criminals
What is Nuremberg?
500
This pact said if one of our friends (in this alliance) was attacked it was like an attack on the USA
What is NATO?
500
Outlawed tests that made it nearly impossible for African Americans to vote
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?