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Symbol for American women at work in factories during WWII.

What is Rosie the Riveter?

100
President Truman adopted this policy toward communism at the end of the war.
What is containment?
100

This theory encouraged people to use strikes, sit-ins and boycotts.

What is nonviolence?

100

The government of North Vietnam had this political philosophy. (Was this type of government)

What is Communist?

100

This technological invention helped connect computers and spur the economy during the 1990s

What is the Internet?

200
Scrap drives, victory gardens, and coupons were all part of the American effort to support troops with supplies needed to carry out the war.
What is rationing?
200

Another theory used during the Cold War that said if one nation falls to communism than surrounding nations will also become communist.

What is the domino theory?

200

Started by Rosa Parks and led by Martin Luther King, this boycott lasted for 381 days.

What is the Birmingham Bus Boycott?

200

This president carried out secret bombing in Cambodia and later resigned.

Who is Nixon?

200

This economic policy included tax cuts, budget cuts and reduced spending on social programs.

What is Reagonomics?

300
The effort on the part of Americans to help the government fund the war.
What is the purchase of War Bonds?
300
American effort to aid and rebuild war torn Europe was highly successful and gained America many allies and goodwill at the end of WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
300

This speech by MLK on the National Mall encouraged the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act

What is the "I Have a Dream" speech?

300

After this incident, Johnson asked Congress for a "blank check" do deal with Vietnam.

What is the Gulf of Tonkin event?

300

This organization claimed responsibility for the 9/11 attacks.

What is al-Qaeda?

400
Japanese Americans property was confiscated and the citizens were forced to move to these in California and many communities in the mid-west.
What are internment camps?
400
An alliance with other nations in reaction to the growth and threat of communism felt at the end of WWII.
What is NATO?
400

This 1954 Supreme Court decision made segregation in schools illegal throughout the United States

What is Brown v the Board of Education?

400

This massacre of over 300 civilians made Americans question their involvement in Vietnam.

What is the My Lai Massacre?

400

Microsoft founder

Who is Bill Gates?

500

American and Japanese relations were strained in 1941 by the action by the Americans to place an embargo on this product, in reaction to Japanese aggression in the Pacific.

What is an embargo on oil?

500
This event launched the space race and the American program, NASA.
What is Sputnik?
500

This man led the farmworkers movement and used a national boycott on grapes to achieve his goals.

Who is Cesar Chavez?

500

American troops pulled out of Vietnam after the fall of this city.

What is Saigon?

500

Al Gore won the popular vote in the 2000 election, but he did not become president because he didn't win this.

What is the electoral college?