The Great Depression
The 1929 event that signaled the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
FDR’s three goals for the New Deal: Relief, Recovery, and this.
What is Reform?
The iconic image representing women working in factories during WWII.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
The 1941 "date which will live in infamy" that brought the U.S. into WWII.
What is Pearl Harbor?
The U.S. policy of preventing the spread of communism.
What is containment?
Shanty towns named after the President blamed for the economic crisis.
What are Hoovervilles?
The New Deal program that provided old-age pensions and unemployment insurance.
What is Social Security?
The 1942 Executive Order that led to the internment of Japanese Americans.
What is Executive Order 9066?
The top-secret program that developed the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
The 1947 plan to provide billions in aid to help rebuild Western Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The 1930 tariff that raised taxes on imports, worsening global trade.
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
This agency was created to restore public confidence in the banking system.
What is the FDIC?
This 1944 law provided educational and economic help to returning veterans.
What is the GI Bill?
The 1945 conference where the "Big Three" discussed the post-war world.
What is the Yalta Conference?
The 1962 crisis that brought the U.S. and USSR to the brink of nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The group of WWI veterans who marched on D.C. in 1932 demanding early payment.
Who was the Bonus Army?
FDR’s failed 1937 plan to increase the number of Supreme Court justices.
What is the Court-Packing Plan?
The Supreme Court case that ruled Japanese internment was a "military necessity."
What is Korematsu v. United States?
The strategy used by the U.S. in the Pacific to move closer to the Japanese mainland.
What is island hopping?
The theory that if one nation fell to communism, its neighbors would follow.
What is the Domino Theory?
The 1930s environmental disaster caused by drought and over-farming.
What is the Dust Bowl?
The 1935 act that protected the right of workers to join unions and bargain collectively.
What is the Wagner Act?
The 1941 policy that allowed the U.S. to send weapons to Britain while remaining neutral.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
The international organization created after WWII to prevent future global conflicts.
What is the United Nations?
The 1964 resolution that gave LBJ authority to escalate the war in Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?