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Americans were frightened by the triumph of Communism in Russia affter WWI and America experienced this:
What is the Red Scare?
100
This occurred on October 29, 1929 and set off a chain reaction causing the Great Depression.
What is the stock market crash?
100
New and improved weapons caused soldiers to engage in this warfare, causing a stalemate on the western front of the war.
What is trench warfare?
100
The German army developed a new form of offensive warfare - the rapid coordinated movements of airplanes, tanks, mechanized troop carriers and infantry.
What is blitzkrieg?
100

Following World War II, the US sent money to Greece and Turkey specifically through this to help ward off Communist influence in these key Mediterranean countries.

What is the Truman Doctrine?

200
Several factors played into the 1920s economic prosperity. The most important was the spread of the automobile by this manufacturer.
Who is Henry Ford?
200
On the Great Plains, a spell of dry weather in the 1930s turned the soil into dust; farmers had to leave the_____ and migrated to California for farming work.
What is the Dust Bowl?
200

This was Woodrow Wilson's plan for "peace without victory" -- he had numerous ideas.

What are the Fourteen Points?

200
American volunteers in the Pacific formed this squadron of airplanes that helped keep supply lines to China open.
What is the Flying Tigers?
200
In 1955, Rosa Parks sat in the white section of the segregated bus which led to this:
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
300

This led to a rise in organized crimes and the creation of Speakeasies.

What is Prohibition?

300

FDR used these to communicate his ideas of the New Deal with the American people.

What are fireside chats?

300

Wilson envisioned a _____, an international peace keeping organization.  The US did not join it, however, and it was dissolved shortly after its creation.

What is League of Nations?

300

This happened on December 7, 1941, triggering our declaration of war on Japan.

What is Pearl Harbor?

300

Betty Friedan and Phyllis Schlafly were working against each other in the debate of this bill.

What is the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment)?

400

Women saw greater opportunities on the political scale when they secured the right to vote from this amendment.

Who is Charles Lindburgh?

400
Roosevelt proposed this program with insurance for the unemployed or retired in order to provide a safety net.
What is Social Security?
400

List TWO of the reasons the United States got involved in WWI.

What are the sinking of the Lusitania, unrestricted submarine warfare, Russian leaving due to the Russian Revolution, and the Zimmerman Telegram?

400

Executive Order 9066 was passed following the hysteria surrounding Pearl Harbor.

What are Japanese Interment camps?

400
LBJ started this, which established welfare programs to help get America out of poverty.
What is the Great Society?
500
The influx of African Americans moving to north Harlem, NY became the cultural hearth of this.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
500
Roosevelt's New Deal consisted of measures of:___, giving direct help to the people; ___ helping prime the economy, and ___ putting programs into place to prevent a depression from happening again.
What is relief, recovery, and reform?
500
Germany offered to help Mexico regain the American southwest through this.
What is the Zimmerman telegram?
500
Truman decided to use the new atomic bomb on these two cities to end the war quicker, with fewer casualties.
Where are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
500
Along with Dolores Huerta, he was a pioneer for the Chicano movement, helping migrant workers in Southwest America.
Who is Cesar Chavez?