The group of people that experienced an early depression in the 1920's.
What is farmers?
100
These two countries appeared to be winning the war in Europe at the end of 1940?
What is Germany and Italy?
100
This pact was an example of a military alliance made for "collective security.''
What is the Warsaw Pact?
100
This committee was in charge of investigating the assassination of JFK and concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the killing of the President.
What is the Warren Commission?
100
President Ronald Reagan's vice president
Who is George H.W. Bush?
200
Investors sold more than 16 million shares of stock on this day.
What is Black Tuesday?
200
The Japanese bombed this American base to destroy ships and planes that threatened their expansion efforts.
What is Pearl Hearbor?
200
This committee was responsible for holding hearings about communist ties to the entertainment industry.
What is the HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committe)?
200
This failed attack in Cuba was an attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
200
The Iran Contra Affair involved arming "counterrevolutionaries" in which country?
What is Nicaragua?
300
Roosevelt created this to regulate the stock market.
What is the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC)?
300
This act allowed nations at war to buy arms and other supplies from the US as long as they paid in cash and transported the goods themselves.
What is the Neutrality Act of 1939?
300
This act allocated federal funds to scientists.
What is the National Defense Education Act?
300
When American Soldiers killed hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in search of Vietcong.
What is the My Lai Massacre?
300
One of the possible causes for the recent decline in American manufacturing jobs.
What is globalization?
400
This act was created to end overproduction and raise the prices of crops.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
400
This order designated war zones from which Japanese Americans could be removed and placed in internment camps.
What is Executive Order 9066?
400
After this trial, movie executives blacklisted entertainers with alleged communist ties.
What is the Hollywood Ten trial?
400
The Supreme Court's decision on this case was important because it showed that the courts were giving more protection to individual rights.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
400
The 2000 presidential election was finalized after this group's decision.
What is the U.S. Supreme Court?
500
European countries passed high protective tariffs in response to this tax.
What is Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
500
Reinhard Heydrich called together this conference to outline a plane to exterminate about 11,000,000 Jews.
What is the 1942 Wannsee Conference?
500
This man emphasized the importance of nurturing children and wrote the book "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care."
What is Benjamin Spock?
500
This resolution allowed President Johnson to take all necessary measures to defend against armed attacks on US forces.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
500
One of the impeachment charges brought against President Clinton