The Great Depression
This president launched the New Deal.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The U.S. entered WWII after this 1941 attack.
What is the Attack on Pearl Harbor?
This wall divided a German city during the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This assembly of over 200,000 people occurred in 1963.
What is the March on Washington?
This terrorist group was responsible for the 9/11 attacks.
What is al-Qaeda?
This event triggered the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
This was the code name for the Allied invasion of Normandy.
What is D-Day?
This crisis brought the U.S. and USSR close to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This act outlawed discrimination in public places.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
The U.S. invaded this country in 2001 to remove the Taliban.
What is Afghanistan?
This dust storm era devastated farms in the Plains.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This coalition included the U.S., Britain, and the Soviet Union.
What are the Allies?
This U.S. organization was formed to oppose communism in Europe.
What is NATO?
This 1954 Supreme Court case ended school segregation.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This department was created in 2002 to coordinate domestic security.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
This 1935 act created a system of pensions for the elderly.
What is the Social Security Act?
This project developed the first atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This policy aimed to stop the spread of communism.
What is containment?
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in this city.
What is Montgomery, Alabama?
This prison camp in Cuba has been used to detain suspected terrorists since 2002.
What is Guantanamo Bay?
This program provided jobs building roads, parks, and public works.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
Japanese Americans were placed in these camps during the war.
What are internment camps?
This U.S. policy provided economic aid to rebuild Western Europe after World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This group used nonviolent protest and was led by Martin Luther King Jr.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?
This 2001 law expanded the government’s surveillance and intelligence-gathering powers.
What is the US PATRIOT Act?