The Great Depression
The legal ban on the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol.
What was Prohibition?
Party brought to power by Adolf Hitler in Germany.
What was the Nazis?
Senator from Wisconsin that accused people of being Communist Party members.
Who was Joseph McCarthy?
Brown vs Board of Education ended this practice.
What was separate but equal (segregated schools)?
The city where President Kennedy was assassinated.
The Nineteenth Amendment.
What gave women the right to vote?
Britain and France declared war on Germany after it invaded this country.
What is Poland?
Built by the Soviets to divided the German capital city.
What was the Berlin Wall?
This began after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus.
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Organization of volunteers created by President Kennedy.
What was the Peace Corps?
The large-scale movement north of African Americans during the early to mid 1900s.
The United States entered the war after Pearl Harbor was attacked in this year.
What is 1941?
Security alliance between western European countries and the United States.
What is NATO?
Name one of two acts signed by President Johnson at the urging of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
What was the Voting Rights Act or the Civil Rights Act?
This involved a naval blockade around the island of Cuba.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Programs signed into law by President Franklin D Roosevelt to combat the Great Depression.
What was the New Deal?
Strategy used by American forces in the Pacific.
What was island-hopping?
Line of latitude that split North and South Korea before and after the war.
What is the 38th parallel?
Led the Farm Worker's Movement in California.
Who was Cesar Chavez OR Dolores Huerta?
This attack on Vietnamese New Year deeply demoralized American troops and the public.
What was the Tet Offensive?
Over-farming and drought caused this phenomenon in the 1930s.
What was the Dust Bowl?
The Double V campaign stood for this.
What was victory over the enemy abroad and victory over discrimination at home.
Term created by Winston Churchill to describe the border between satellite Soviet nations and Western Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
This epidemic initially swept through the gay community.
What was AIDs?
The name of President Johnson's program to ensure every American had a decent living standard.
What was the Great Society?