If stock prices drop, brokers can force their investors to repay their loans if the investors purchased stocks in what way?
What is buying on margin
100
This policy was supported (espoused) by both liberals and conservatives in the United States before WWII.
What is isolationism?
100
What committee was formed to investigate all domestic Communist threats?
What is HUAC (House Unamerican Activites Committee)?
100
This Supreme Court case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and banned racial segregation in public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
100
Nixon believed that the silent majority supported what policy? A policy that would slowly pull troops out of Vietnam while allowing aiding the South Vietnamese troops in handling conflict on their own and establishing a government that could resist communism.
What is Vietnamization?
200
This program offered aid to struggling banks
What is Refinance Corporation?
200
Planting vicotry gardens, dealing with wartime rationing, and buying war bonds were all ways that which group helped the war effort?
What is women?
200
What was it called when the United States gave aid to the German capital to help prevent it from becoming communist?
What is the Berlin Airlift?
200
The passage of which major act began President Johnson's "unconditional war on poverty"?
What is The Economic Opportunity Act?
200
This military operation was aimed at destroying army bases, airfields, and anything else that North Vietnam would find useful in their war effort.
What is Operation Rolling Thunder?
300
A New Deal Program that provided public work jobs for peope needing relief.
What is Civil Works Administration (CWA)
300
This battle changed the entire balance of power in the Pacific to the Allies advantage.
What is the Battle of Midway
300
This government agency encouraged Americans to build bomb shelters in their yards and made educational films featuring Bert the Turtle.
What is The Federal Civil Defense Administration?
300
Which organization adopted the strategy of fighting for African American Civil Rights by attacking racism in the courts and legal systems?
What is NAACP?
300
This resolution pushed for by President Johnson allowed the U.S. military to expand its presence in Vietnam. Congress passed it because they had been decieved by President Johnson.
What is The Tonkin Gulf Resolution?
400
This New Deal Program addresssed the problem of unemployment among which particular group?
What is young men
400
Which conference divided Germany into four sectors, all to be controlled by the allied powers after WWII?
What is the Yalta Conference?
400
In 1947 The United States was willing to send monetary aide to which countries in order to help them resist Soviet Pressure?
What is Greece and Turkey?
400
This amendment to the Constitution eliminated the poll tax which had kept many African Americans from voting.
What is the 24th Amendment?
400
This man leaked the Pentagon Ppers that showed taht the U.S. government had been misleading the public about the Vietnam War for years....since the end of WWII.
What is Daniel Ellsberg?
500
The leadership of which two women during the 1930's showed that opportunities were increasing for African Americans and women.
What is Mary McCleod Bethune and Francis Perkins
500
What langauge was used to create a code unbreakable by the Japanese, which was key in winning the war in the Pacific?
What is Navajo?
500
In the Eisenhower Doctrine, the president declared he would help which part of the world reisist armed Communist agression?
What is the Middle East?
500
What major event led to the decline of the civil rights movment in the 1960's?
What is the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.?
500
Who was able to recieve draft deferments during the Vietnam War?