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Great Depression
Cold War
Imperialism & WW I
World War II
Roaring Twenties
100
The main reason for the stock market crash in 1929
What is overproduction of consumer goods?
100
The main U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War
What is containment?
100
The name of the ship that exploded and began the Spanish-American War
What is the Maine?
100
The name of the symbol for women working during World War II
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
100
A woman who wore short skirts, short hair, and broke the rules of being a "lady"
Who is a flapper?
200
The name people gave the settlement of self-built shacks they were forced to live in after losing their homes
What is a Hooverville?
200
The term that means that the US would help any people in the world fighting against communism
What is the Truman Doctrine?
200
The names of three territories US gained after winning the Spanish-American War
What are Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam?
200
It means the limiting of products people could buy during World War II
What is rationing?
200
The trial that featured a conflict between science and religion
What is the Scopes Trial?
300
The part of the country where the Dust Bowl occurred
What is the Great Plains?
300
The name for the communist "witch hunt" during the 1950s
What is McCarthyism?
300
The secret message sent from Germany to Mexico during World War I
What is the Zimmerman Note?
300
The Supreme Court case that said the internment of Japanese-Americans was legal
What is Korematsu v. United States?
300
The Amendment that began Prohibition
What is the 18th Amendment?
400
The name of FDRs set of government programs to help people during the Great Depression
What is the New Deal?
400
The name of the Soviet satellite that began the space race
What is Sputnik?
400
The President during the Spanish-American War
Who is William McKinley?
400
The secret program to build the atomic bomb during World War II
What is the Manhattan Project?
400
The two Italian immigrants who were executed after a trial where they were the victims of nativism
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
500
The New Deal program that protects the money people have in the bank
What is the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)?
500
The idea that if one country fell to communism then each country next to it would fall as well
What is the domino theory?
500
The Supreme Court decision that said freedom of speech could be restricted during a time of war
What is Schenck v. United States?
500
The law that said the U.S. could give weapons to Great Britain
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
500
The name of the laws that put a limit on immigration in the 1920s
What are the Quota Acts?