Civil Rights
These laws were instituted in the South after Reconstruction to segregate public places and schools
What are Jim Crow laws?
US foreign policy that warned European countries to stay out of the Americas and the Western Hemisphere.
What is isolationism?
This president served during the Depression and WWII
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
During the industrial revolution new technology affected the US economy by--
A. limiting profits
B. increasing worker productivity
C. decreasing urban population
D. Generating tax revenue
B. Increasing Worker Productivity
This city was divided until November 1989, and the fall of its wall marked the end of the Cold War
What is Berlin?
The Supreme Court case in 1954 that ended segregation in public schools
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The desire to take overseas colonies to create an empire is known by this word, which also starts with the letter "i"
What is imperialism?
This president served during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bay of Pigs invasion
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This amendment abolished slavery
What is the 13th?
A.Vietnam War
B. World War II
C. World War I
D. Spanish-American War
A, Vietnam War
Civil Rights leader who helped found the NAACP and advocated for immediate equality
WEB DuBois
The explosion of this battleship in the Havana harbor was the cause of the Spanish-American War
What is the USS Maine?
This president served during the Vietnam War and was responsible for the Watergate scandal
Who is Richard M. Nixon?
Battle that was the turning point of the Civil War
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Winston Churchill used this two-word term to describe the divide between Eastern and Western Europe
What is the Iron Curtain?
This President who followed JFK signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This man, who was president during WWI, created the Fourteen Points
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This post-Civil War amendment grants citizenship to all people who were born here (including African-Americans)
What is the 14th?
What was the alliance of Communist countries created after World War II called?
A. NATO
B. CORE
C. Warsaw Pact
D. Axis Powers
C. Warsaw Pact
Virginia student who led a School walkout protest in Prince Edward county to protest against school Segregation.
Who is Barbara Johns?
Part of the Fourteen Points, which was rejected by the US Senate, involved the creation of this international organization
What is the League of Nations?
This president made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan
Who is Harry S Truman?
Cities that had atomic bombs dropped on them at the end of WWII.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
"...we must, by means of sustained and rapid buildup of the political, economic, and military strength of the free world... take the initiative from the Soviet Union"
-- President Harry Truman
This quote refers to--
A. Creation of the Manhattan Project
B. Japanese Invasion
C. Creation of the state of Israel
D. Cold War Tensions