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This was the name of the
homeless encampments
during the Great
Depression .
What are Hoovervilles?
Name of Midwestern
farmers who moved to CA.
Who are Oakies?
These are 3 causes of the
Great Depression.
What are speculation, buying on
margin, monetary policy,
distribution of wealth, agricultural
overproduction, low demand for
industrial productions, bank
closures, high tariffs?
This caused the Great
Dust Bowl.
What is a drought?
This was the purpose of
the FDIC and SEC.
What is bank insurance
policy and regulate stock
market fraud?
This event brought the US
into the War.
What is the attack on
Pearl Harbor?
This pre-war policy of
giving into Hitler to keep
the peace.
What is appeasement?
Two cities that the US
dropped nuclear bombs on
during WWII.
What are Hiroshima and
Nagasaki?
The last German
offensive.
What is the Battle of
Bulge?
Name of the secret US plan
to develop the bomb.
What is the Manhattan
Project?
Current Communist leader
in Cuba.
Who is Raul Castro?
The War ended in a
stalemate.
What is the Korean War?
In this plan, the US gave
money to Greece and
Turkey to fight against
communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This US President
attempted to ease
tensions during the Cold
War.
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
Secret US invasion of Cuba,
failed, embarrassed the
Kennedy administration.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
US supported leader in
South Vietnam.
Who is Ngo Dinh Diem?
Approximate # of US
soldiers killed in the War.
What is 58,000?
This event gave Pres. Johnson
the opportunity to escalate the
War; falsely claiming 2
gunboats were attacked.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin
incident?
Last French defeat in
Vietnam in 1954.
What is the Battle of
Diem Bien Phu?
These are 3 ways to avoid
the draft during the
Vietnam War.
What is medical exemption,
enrolled in college, being an
only son, conscientious
objector, etc…?
Supreme Court case
that desegregated
schools.
What Brown v.
Board of
Education?
The Amendment that
gave African-American
males the right to vote.
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15
What is the
Amendment?
This event prompted
Pres. Johnson to sign
the Voting Rights Act of
1965.
What is March on
Selma, AL?
This group wanted to pass
the ERA.
What is the Women’s
Movement?
Leader of the United Farm
Workers Union.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
His trickle down theory did
not stop the Great
Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
These countries made up
the Axis Powers during
WWII.
What are Germany,
Italy, and Japan?
The year the USSR
detonated their first atomic
bomb.
What is 1949?
Three ways that Blacks were
prevented from voting.
What are poll taxes, literacy
test and fear/intimitation?
This US President appointed
the first Native American in the
Government.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
Put these events in the correct
chronological order:
A.Korean War
B. Stock Market Crash
C. March on Washington
D. Operation Rolling Thunder
E. Invasion of Poland
F. Cuban Missile Crisis
G. Dust Bowl
H. Brown v. Board of Education
What is
A. Stock Market Crash (1929)
B. Dust Bowl (1931-41)
C. Invasion of Poland (1939)
D. Korean War (1950-53)
E. Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
F. Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
G. March on Washington (1963)
H. Operation Rolling Thunder (1965-68)