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| 9450210076 | Lend Lease | Legislation stating that the US could either sell or lease arms to any country whose security was vital to America's interest. |  | 0 |
| 9450210077 | Cash and Carry Policy | A law that allowed a nation at war to purchase goods and arms in US as long as they paid cash and carried merchandise on their own ships. This benefited the Allies, because Britain was a dominant naval power. |  | 1 |
| 9450210078 | Neutrality Act | 4 laws that were designed to keep the US out of international incidents. Originally designed to avoid American involvement in WWII by preventing loans to those countries taking part in the conflict. |  | 2 |
| 9450210079 | Pearl Harbor | Japanese surprise attack on the US Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The Japanese destroyed US ships and aircrafts. In response, the US declared war on Japan and Germany. |  | 3 |
| 9450210080 | Midway | An important battle in the Asian part of WWII, in which US sank 4 Japanese aircraft carriers |  | 4 |
| 9450210081 | Mobilization | Act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency |  | 5 |
| 9450210082 | Victory Gardens | Americans were encouraged to grow their own vegetables to support the war effort |  | 6 |
| 9450210083 | Rationing | A system of allocating scarce goods and services using criteria other than price |  | 7 |
| 9450210084 | D-Day | Allied troops landed along a heavily fortified French coastline to fight Germany on the beaches of Normandy. Thousands of ships and aircrafts supported the invasion and the Allies gained victory |  | 8 |
| 9450210085 | Battle of the Bulge | In 1944, Germany staged a massive counterattack in Belgium and Luxembourg that pushed a 30 mile bulge into the Allied lines. The Allied stopped the Germans and threw them back across the Rhine with heavy losses |  | 9 |
| 9450210086 | Manhattan Project | Code name for the US effort during WWII to produce the atomic bomb in New York. Most of the research was done by physicists |  | 10 |
| 9450210087 | Hiroshima | The first Japanese city destroyed by an atomic bomb in 1945. It hastened the end of WWII. |  | 11 |
| 9450210088 | Island Hopping | A military strategy used during WWII that involved attacking specific enemy islands and bypassing others |  | 12 |
| 9450210089 | Iwo Jima | A bloody and prolonged operation in Iwo Jima in which American marines defeated Japanese defenders |  | 13 |
| 9450210090 | United Nations | An international organization that facilitate co-operation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, and human rights issues. It replaced the League of Nations | 14 | |
| 9450210091 | Yalta Conference | FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Yalta. Russia agreed to declare war on Japan after the surrender of Germany and in return FDR and Churchill promised the USSR concession of Manchuria and the territories that it had lost in the Russo-Japanese War |  | 15 |
| 9450210092 | Potsdam Conference | Truman, Stalin, and Churchill met in Germany to set up zones of control and inform the Japanese that if they refused to surrender, they would face total destruction. |  | 16 |
| 9450210093 | Rosie the Riveter | A propaganda character designed to increase production of female workers in the factories. It became a rallying symbol for women to do their part. |  | 17 |
| 9450210094 | Levittown | William Levitt used mass production to build inexpensive homes in surburban New York to help relieve the postwar housing shortage. |  | 18 |
| 9450210095 | Iron Curtain | A political barrier that isolated the people of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region |  | 19 |
| 9450210096 | Truman Doctrine | President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology, mainly helped Greece and Turkey |  | 20 |
| 9450210097 | Marshall Plan | A US program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe during 1948-1952 |  | 21 |
| 9450210098 | Berlin Blockade | Soviet attempt to starve out the Allied in order to gain supremacy in Berlin. It was a high point in the Cold War and it led to the Berlin Airlift. |  | 22 |
| 9450210099 | Korean War | The conflict between communist North Korea and non-communist South Korea, helped by the UN. |  | 23 |
| 9450210100 | McCarthyism | The term associated with Joseph McCarthy who led the search for communists in America during the 1950s through his leadership in the House Un-American Activities Committee. |  | 24 |
| 9450210101 | Brown v Board of Education, 1954 | The Supreme Court overruled Plessy vs Ferguson, declared that segregated facilities are unequal and ordered all schools desegregated. |  | 25 |
| 9450210102 | Montgomery Bus Boycott | After Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus, MLK led a boycott on buses. The Supreme Court later ruled that segregation of public transportation was illegal. |  | 26 |
| 9450210103 | Interstate Highway Act | 1956 law that authorized the spending of $32 billion to build 41,000 miles of highway |  | 27 |
| 9450210104 | Little Rock Arkansas | Incident where President Eisenhower sent federal troops to allow black students into the high school. |  | 28 |
| 9450210105 | Sputnik | First Earth satellite launched by Moscow in 1957 which sparked US fears of Soviet dominance in technology and space. It led to the creation of NASA, space race, and increased focus of math and science in American schools. |  | 29 |
| 9450210106 | Sit ins | Protests by black students who took seats at whites only lunch counters and refused to leave until served. Their success prompted the formation of the student non-violent coordinating committee. |  | 30 |
| 9450210107 | NASA | The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the US government agency responsible for the space program, aeronautics, and aerospace research. |  | 31 |
| 9450210108 | Berlin Wall | A fortified wall that prevented East Germans from entering the West. This wall was both a deterrent to individuals trying to escape and a symbol of repression to the free world. |  | 32 |
| 9450210109 | Bay of Pigs | In 1961, a group of Cuban exiles organized by the CIA landed in Cuba to overthrow Fidel Castro. When the invasion ended in failure, President Kennedy took full responsibility |  | 33 |
| 9450210110 | Freedom Rides | An event organized by CORE and SNCC in which a group of civil rights activists tested southern states compliance to the Supreme Court ban of segregation on interstate buses |  | 34 |
| 9450210111 | Cuban Missile Crisis | An international nuclear crisis between the US and the USSR. When US discovered Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba, President Kennedy announced a naval blockade of Cuba. Khrushchev acceded to the US demands on the condition that US doesn't invade Cuba |  | 35 |
| 9450210112 | Rachel Carson | US biologist who opposed the use of pesticides that were hazardous to wildlife. Considered the birth of environmentalism |  | 36 |
| 9450210113 | March on Washington | In 1963, MLK gave his famous I have a dream speech to show support for the Civil Rights Bill in Congress |  | 37 |
| 9450210114 | JFK Assassinated | 1963, President JFK was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. |  | 38 |
| 9450210115 | Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Banned discrimination in public places, federal program, and most job employment. It enlarged federal powers to protect voting rights and desegregate schools. African Americans gained more power for social equality |  | 39 |
| 9450210116 | Voting Rights Act of 1965 | Invalidated the use of any test for authorized federal examiners to register disenfranchised black voters in states. As more blacks became politically active and elected black representatives, it brought jobs, facilities, and services for the black community, encouraging greater social equality and decreasing the wealth and education gap |  | 40 |
| 9450210117 | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | Congressional resolution that authorized President Johnson to commit US troops to South Vietnam and fight a war against North Vietnam |  | 41 |
| 9450210118 | Cesar Chavez | Farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist who formed the National Farm Workers Association |  | 42 |
| 9450210119 | Malcolm X | Renamed himself X to signify the loss of his African heritage, converted to Nation of Islam, and became Black Muslims most dynamic street orator. His beliefs were based on the Black Power movement built on separationist and nationalist impulses to achieve independence and equality. |  | 43 |
| 9450210120 | Stonewall Riot | Police raided gay bar and triggered protests among gays and lesbians. It became a symbol of oppression of gays which began the gay pride movement |  | 44 |
| 9450210121 | Woodstock | A free music festival that attracted thousands of young people to a farm in upstate New York in 1969 |  | 45 |
| 9450210122 | Earth Day | A holiday created by environmental activists and Gaylord Nelson to raise awareness of environmental concerns |  | 46 |
| 9450210123 | Kent State Massacre | Protests to the war that caused National Guard being called in and shot students because they burned the ROTC building. |  | 47 |
| 9450210124 | Nixon in China | Nixon met with Mao Tse-Tung for improved relations with China. Nixon agreed to support China's admission to the UN |  | 48 |
| 9450210125 | SALT I Treaty | A five year agreement between the US and the Soviet Union that limited the numbers of intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine missiles. |  | 49 |
| 9450210126 | Roe v Wade | The Supreme Court decision holding that a state ban on all abortions was unconstitutional. The decision forbade state control over abortions during the first trimester of pregnancy, permitted states to limit abortions during the second trimester, and permitted states to protect the fetus during the third trimester. |  | 50 |
| 9450210127 | Watergate | Nixon feared loss so he approved the commission to re-elect the President to spy on the Democrats. A security guard foiled an attempt to bug the Democratic National Committee Headquarters, exposing the scandal. Nixon was impeached. |  | 51 |
| 9450210128 | Jimmy Carter | He was criticized for his return of the Panama Canal Zone, he enacted an embargo on grain shipments to USSR, and he created the Department of Energy and the Department of Education. His last year in office was marked by the takeover of the American embassy in Iran, fuel shortages, and Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. |  | 52 |
| 9450210129 | Camp David Accords | Negotiations at Camp David organized by President Carter between Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin. It led to a peace treaty that returned the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt, gave Israel access to the Red Sea and Suez Canal, and normalized diplomatic and economic relations between the two countries. |  | 53 |
| 9450210130 | Iran Hostage Crisis | Revolutionaries stormed the American embassy in Tehran and held Americans hostage. The Carter administration unsuccessfully tried to negotiate for the hostages release. In 1981, Iran released the Americans after Carter left office |  | 54 |
| 9450210131 | Salt II Treaty | A controversial experiment of negotiations between the US and the Soviet Union, which sought to limit the manufacture of strategic nuclear weapons. |  | 55 |
