Well, That's Depressing
A Growing Nation
Baby, It's Cold Outside
Forceful Personalities
Two is Bigger than One
Big-Picture Thinking
100
This name was used to describe the drought and dust storms in the Great Plains during the 1930s.
What is the Dust Bowl?
100
This island in New York Harbor served as an immigration station for millions of immigrants arriving to the United States.
What is Ellis Island?
100
This name was given to the worldwide rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II.
What is the Cold War?
100
This leader of the communist Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953 led that nation through World War II and its post-war expansion.
Who was Josef Stalin?
100
This group of countries led by Britain, France, the United States, and the Soviet Union fought the Axis Powers in World War II.
Who were the Allies?
100
This German military strategy in World War II was highly successful due to its use of speed and new military technologies to break through defenses.
What is blitzkrieg?
200
October 29, 1929, was given this name when a mass panic caused a crash in the stock market resulting in massive losses for stockholders.
What is "Black Tuesday"?
200
In the 1912 presidential race, Theodore Roosevelt ran as the candidate of this political party.
What was the Progressive Party?
200
During this aid program, U.S. and British pilots flew supplies to West Berlin to overcome a Soviet land and water blockade.
What was the Berlin Airlift?
200
This 32nd president of the United States led the country through the later part of the Great Depression and through World War II.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
200
This Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1940 to 1945 led Great Britain through World War II.
Who was Winston Churchill?
200
Due to its preoccupation with fighting World War II and its earlier efforts to block Jewish immigration prior to the war, the United States was largely uninvolved in opposing this systematic destruction of the Jewish people by the Nazis.
What was the Holocaust?
300
These informal radio broadcasts were used by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to explain his view of issues at hand to average Americans.
What are fireside chats?
300
This American inventor held over 1,000 patents, including for the invention of the light bulb.
Who was Thomas A. Edison?
300
This 1962 conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union resulted from the Soviet installation of nuclear missiles on a Caribbean island less than 100 miles from the American coast.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
300
This woman's refusal to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, became a model for the use of nonviolent protest by the Civil Rights Movement.
Who was Rosa Parks?
300
The U.S. government gave this code name to the research project that developed the atomic bomb.
What was the Manhattan Project?
300
American forces in Vietnam had great difficulty defeating the Vietcong due to their use of this strategy.
What is guerilla warfare?
400
This 31st president of the United States led the country through the early days of the Great Depression after serving as Secretary of Commerce under Presidents Harding and Coolidge.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
400
Exclusive control by one company over an entire industry is described by this term.
What is a monopoly?
400
This Supreme Commander of all Allied forces during World War II later served as U.S. president from 1953-1961.
Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?
400
This communist leader led a successful revolution in China and went on to rule that nation from 1949 to 1976.
Who was Mao Zedong?
400
This decisive naval battle between U.S. and Japanese carrier fleets resulted in the sinking of four Japanese aircraft carriers, and is generally considered the turning point of World War II in the Pacific
What was the Battle of Midway?
400
This term describes a group of merchant ships sailing together, protected by warships.
What is a convoy?
500
This term is used to describe the process of frightened depositors withdrawing their savings in large numbers, which led to many bank failures after Black Tuesday.
What is a bank run?
500
Theodore Roosevelt gave this name to his policy of creating and using, when necessary, a strong military to achieve America's goals.
What is big stick diplomacy?
500
This name was given to the easing of tensions between the United States and the communist governments of the Soviet Union and China in the 1970s.
What is detente?
500
This Vietnamese national led a revolt against French colonialism and later served as president of North Vietnam.
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
500
This Emperor of Japan during World War II was instrumental in that nation's decision to surrender after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Who was Hirohito?
500
President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave this name to his overall framework of programs and laws created to promote economic recovery and social reform in response to the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?