Great Depression
This major economic event in 1929 helped begin the Great Depression.
What is the stock market crash?
This president introduced the New Deal programs.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
The surprise attack on this naval base brought the U.S. into WWII.
What is Pearl Harbor?
The Cold War was a rivalry between the United States and this country.
What is the Soviet Union or USSR?
This Supreme Court case ruled that segregated schools were unconstitutional.
What is Brown vs. the Board of Education?
People rushed to banks to withdraw their money during these events.
What is a bank run?
Before the New Deal, many leaders believed recovery should mostly come from these rather than government action.
What are private charities?
Before entering WWII, many Americans supported this policy of avoiding foreign wars.
What is isolationism?
The United States tried to stop the spread of this economic and political system during the Cold War.
What is communism?
This man helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955.
Millions of Americans faced this major problem during the Great Depression.
What is unemployment?
Programs like the WPA and CCC were designed mainly to provide this.
What is employment?
Germany, Italy, and Japan formed this alliance during WWII.
What are the Axis Powers?
This war in South East Asia lasted about 20 years and ultimately led to a communist takeover of the country in question.
What is the Vietnam War?
Civil Rights activists often used this method of peacefully breaking unfair laws.
What is civil disobedience?
Many Mexican Americans were unfairly targeted for this during the Great Depression.
What is deportation?
The New Deal’s “3 Rs” stood for these.
The United States dropped atomic bombs on these two Japanese cities.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This is the idea that the U.S. should try to stop the spread of communism wherever it could.
This 1965 law helped protect African Americans’ right to vote.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
Large homeless communities during the Depression became known by this nickname connected to President Hoover.
What is a Hooverville?
FDR often communicated directly with Americans through these radio speeches.
What are fireside chats?
This battle is often considered the turning point of the war in Europe because it stopped Germany’s advance into the Soviet Union.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
This war in Asia (1950-53) led to a stalemate and a separation of a country which still lasts to this day.
What is the Korean War?
This action helped lead to the desegregation of lunch counters in the 1960s.
What is a sit in?