This was the name given to Franklin Roosevelt's plan to fix the nation's ills during the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
100
This battle is considered the turning point of the European Theatre of World War II.
What is Stalingrad?
100
This was the name of the first satellite in space; it created a wave of fear and awe throughout the U.S.
What is Sputnik?
100
This was the tactic used most frequently by students in an effort to challenge segregation laws.
What is sit-ins?
100
He was the President most heavily criticized for U.S. involvement in Vietnam because he ordered the escalation of U.S. forces there.
Who is Lyndon Johnson?
200
This sparked a decline in investments in the nation and helped propel the U.S., and the world, into a depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
200
This battle is considered the turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
What is Midway?
200
This was Winston Churchill's description of the ideological and social divide between the East and West.
What is the iron curtain?
200
This was the first moment of the modern Civil Rights Movement; it illustrated clearly that African-Americans were not inferior to Whites.
What is Jackie Robinson breaking the MLB color barrier?
200
This was the village that was massacred by U.S. soldiers in Vietnam leading to more anti-war and anti-soldier sentiment in the U.S.
What is My Lai?
300
This was the name given to collections of shacks which were inhabited by the multitude of poor and homeless across the U.S.
What is Hooverville?
300
This was the name of the policy Britain and France practiced at the Munich Conference by giving into Hitler's demands in an effort to avoid war.
What is appeasement?
300
This was the city where Cold War tensions first erupted; no war occurred, but both sides showed a willingness to combat the other by non-military means.
What is Berlin?
300
Events in this city shocked the public and convinced President Kennedy something had to be done about Civil Rights.
What is Birmingham, Alabama?
300
This was the turning point in the Vietnam War because even though the U.S. won, public opinion was fully turned against the war.
What is the Tet Offensive?
400
These were two causes of the Dust Bowl, the worst ecological disaster in U.S. history.
What is over farming the land, no ground cover, no wind block, and drought?
400
This was probably the most important Allied meeting of the war; it established the plans for postwar Europe and the United Nations and set the stage for the Cold War.
What is Yalta Conference?
400
This was the U.S. program that sent $12 billion in aid to Western Europe in order to fix the devastation from World War II and prevent the spread of communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
400
This was a group that formed in an attempt to promote gender equality; they eventually pushed for the Equal Rights Amendment, but failed to gain its ratification.
What is the National Organization for Women?
400
This was the name for the massive bombing campaign ordered by the Johnson Administration which ultimately failed.
What is Operation Rolling Thunder?
500
The "nail in the coffin" for Hoover's Presidency was when this group was attacked by U.S. forces under Douglas MacArthur.
What is the Bonus Army?
500
This was the name for the melee between Navy men and Mexican immigrants in Los Angeles over the immigrants clothing, among other things.
What is the Zoot Suit Riot?
500
This was the name of the message sent to the State Department that claimed the U.S. and U.S.S.R. could never negotiate, leading to the U.S. policy of containment.
What is the Long Telegram?
500
Police brutality against peaceful marchers in Selma, Alabama forced President Johnson to sign this bill and make it federal law.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
500
These were the two nations invaded by the U.S. in order to cut off Vietcong supply and communication lines into South Vietnam leading to massive public outrage.