People group interned in camps in the US during World War II; it was feared many were spies and traitors.
Who are Japanese-Americans?
100
Mass movement kicked off by Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955
What is the civil rights movement?
100
Name given to the generation born right after World War II; returning soldiers were ready for a stable family life in the suburbs, resulting in a huge increase in the number of babies born
What are Baby Boomers?
100
This event was billed as an intentional attack by Spain in the yellow press around the turn of the century and led to the Spanish-American war.
What is explosion of the USS Maine?
100
Highly contentious Supreme Court case in 1973 that granted women the right to abortion.
What is Roe v Wade?
200
President who led the US to war against Iraq, looking for non-existent Weapons of Mass Destruction
Who is George W Bush?
200
Embarrassing incident in 1960, in which a US spy plane that we claimed didn't exist was captured in the USSR
What is the U-2 Incident?
200
Integrated bus rides throughout the South in the summer of 1961; resulted in brutal beatings and one bus being torched
What were Freedom Rides?
200
Highly publicized trial after World War II, in which a couple suspected of being communist spies were executed in the electric chair.
What is the Rosenberg Trial?
200
Horrific new weapon used during World War I that resulted in disfigurement for many soldiers; its use was banned in future wars.
What is poison gas?
300
Islamic fundamentalism group whose name means "students" that ruled Afghanistan and provided refuge to Al-Queda; it was toppled by the US in 2001.
What is the Taliban?
300
Terrible event during the Vietnam War in which unarmed villagers were murdered by US soldiers; helped turn US opinion against the war
What is the My Lai Massacre?
300
Name given to segregation laws in the South from 1890 to 1954.
What is Jim Crow?
300
First small-scale war the US got involved in after World War II as part of the strategy of containment.
What is the Korean War?
300
Name given to the smuggling of alcohol during Prohibition
What is bootlegging?
400
Ruler of Iraq who invaded Kuwait because Iraq needed money after fighting Iran for 8 years
Who is Saddam Hussein?
400
Event that marked the end of the Vietnam War and made it the only completely unsuccessful war the US has ever fought.
What is the fall of Saigon?
400
Movement that arose in the latter half of the civil rights movement, led by Malcolm X and others tired of peaceful protest
What is the Black Power Movement?
400
Highly visible symbolic end to the Cold War and the fall of communism
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?
400
Fleeing to Canada to avoid being drafted into the Vietnam War
What is draft dodging?
500
US president prior to FDR; called the "do-nothing" president because he didn't do anything to pull the US out of the Great Depression
Who is Herbert Hoover?
500
Event in which the CIA helped overthrow a democratically elected president in 1953 in the Middle East because he had communist leanings
What is the Iranian coup d'etat?
500
Secret government project during World War II that developed the first atomic bomb
What is the Manhattan Project?
500
Maritime tragedy during World War I that led the US to declare war on Germany
What is the sinking of the Lusitania?
500
Massive attack by the North Vietnamese on American troops and South Vietnamese village; while ultimately unsuccessful, its massive casualties caused many Americans to stop supporting the war