Terms : Hide Images
| 13312633000 | Neutrality Act | 1935, Designed to keep the US out of international incidents (WWII). Later modified to allow for support of Allies in Europe | 0 | |
| 13312633001 | Pearl Harbor | December 7, 1941 - Surprise attack by the Japanese on the main U.S. Pacific Fleet in Hawaii Led to declaration of war on Japan and Germany, entering World War II. | 1 | |
| 13312633004 | D-Day | June 6, 1944, Allied invasion of France by sea, land and air; Commanded by Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Allies gained a foot- hold in Normandy. |  | 2 |
| 13312633005 | Manhattan Project | Code name for the U.S. effort during World War II to produce the atomic bomb. Much of the early research was done in New York City by refugee physicists in the United States. |  | 3 |
| 13312633006 | Hiroshima | City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II. |  | 4 |
| 13312633007 | Island Hopping | A military strategy used during World War II that involved selectively attacking specific enemy-held islands and bypassing others |  | 5 |
| 13312633008 | Iwo Jima | a bloody and prolonged operation on the island of Iwo Jima in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945) |  | 6 |
| 13312633009 | United Nations | International organization created after WWII to foster cooperation among international powers to prevent war, promote international security and recognition of human rights. | 7 | |
| 13312633010 | 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. | 8 | |
| 13312633011 | Levittown | Mass production techniques to build inexpensive homes in suburban Long Island, New York to help relieve the postwar housing shortage. Symbol of the movement "White flight" to suburbs | 9 | |
| 13312633012 | Iron Curtain | A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region | 10 | |
| 13312633013 | Truman Doctrine | Truman's post-WWII policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology, mainly helped Greece and Turkey | 11 | |
| 13312633014 | Marshall Plan | A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952), designed to promote democracy/capitalism | 12 | |
| 13312633015 | Berlin Blockade | Soviet attempt to starve out the allies in Berlin in order to gain supremacy. Led to Berlin Airlift., 1949 | 13 | |
| 13312633016 | Korean War | The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea. | 14 | |
| 13312633017 | McCarthyism | search for communists in America during the early 1950s |  | 15 |
| 13312633018 | Brown v Board of Education, 1954 | 1954 - The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated. |  | 16 |
| 13312633019 | Montgomery Bus Boycott | 1955, after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus, ultimately ended when SCOTUS declared segregation of public transportation was illegal. |  | 17 |
| 13312633020 | Interstate Highway Act | 1956 law that authorized the spending of $32 billion to build 41,000 miles of highway | 18 | |
| 13312633021 | Little Rock 9 | Incident where President Eisenhower sent federal troops to allow black students into Central high school. |  | 19 |
| 13312633022 | Sputnik | First artificial Earth satellite, it was launched by Moscow in 1957 and sparked U.S. fears of Soviet dominance in technology and outer space. It led to the creation of NASA | 20 | |
| 13312633023 | Sit ins | Protests by black college students, 1960-1961, who took seats at "whites only" lunch counters and refused to leave until served; in 1960 over 50,000 participated in sit-ins across the South. Their success prompted the formation of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. |  | 21 |
| 13312633025 | Berlin Wall | Surrounding West Berlin, Germany, built in 1961 to prevent East German citizens from traveling to the West. Its demolition in 1989 symbolized the end of the Cold War. | 22 | |
| 13312633026 | Bay of Pigs | April 1961, a group of Cuban exiles organized and supported by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency landed on the southern coast of Cuba in an effort to overthrow Fidel Castro. When the invasion ended in disaster, President Kennedy took full responsibility for the failure. |  | 23 |
| 13312633027 | Freedom Rides | 1961 event organized by CORE and SNCC in which an interracial group of civil rights activists tested southern states' compliance to the Supreme Court ban of segregation on interstate buses |  | 24 |
| 13312633028 | Cuban Missile Crisis | An international crisis in October 1962, the closest approach to nuclear war at any time between the U.S. and the USSR. When the U.S. discovered Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba, President John F. Kennedy demanded their removal and announced a naval blockade of the island; the Soviet leader Khrushchev acceded to the U.S. demands a week later, on condition that US doesn't invade Cuba |  | 25 |
| 13312633030 | March on Washington | Held in 1963 to show support for the Civil Rights Bill in Congress. Martin Luther King gave his famous "I have a dream..." speech. 250,000 people attended the rally |  | 26 |
| 13312633031 | JFK Assassinated | November 1963, President John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. |  | 27 |
| 13312633032 | Civil Rights Act of 1964 | 1964; banned discrimination in public accommodations, prohibited discrimination in any federally assisted program, outlawed discrimination in most employment; enlarged federal powers to protect voting rights and to speed school desegregation; this and the voting rights act helped to give African-Americans equality on paper, and more federally-protected power so that social equality was a more realistic goal |  | 28 |
| 13312633033 | Voting Rights Act of 1965 | 1965; invalidated the use of any test or device to deny the vote and authorized federal examiners to register voters in states that had disenfranchised blacks; as more blacks became politically active and elected black representatives, it rboguth jobs, contracts, and facilities and services for the black community, encouraging greater social equality and decreasing the wealth and education gap |  | 29 |
| 13312633034 | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | 1964 Congressional resolution that authorized President Johnson to commit US troops to south vietnam and fight a war against north Vietnam |  | 30 |
| 13312633035 | Cesar Chavez | 1927-1993. Farm worker, labor leader, and civil-rights activist who helped form the National Farm Workers Association, later the United Farm Workers. |  | 31 |
| 13312633036 | Malcolm X | 1952; Leader in Nation of Islam, his beliefs were the basis of a lot of the Black Power movement built on separation of races and nationalist impulses to achieve true independence and equality. | 32 | |
| 13312633037 | Stonewall Riot | In New York City, 1969 - Triggered activist protests among gays and lesbians - police raided gay bar - people fought back - became symbol of oppression of gays, began the gay pride movement | 33 | |
| 13312633038 | Woodstock | A free music festival that attracted more than 400,000 young people to a farm in upstate New York in August 1969 | 34 | |
| 13312633039 | Earth Day | A holiday conceived of by environmental activist and Senator Gaylord Nelson to encourage support for and increase awareness of environmental concerns; first celebrated on March 22, 1970 | 35 | |
| 13312633040 | Kent State Massacre | Protests to the war that lead to National Guard being called in and shot students because they burned the ROTC building. Three students were killed, 1970. |  | 36 |
| 13312633041 | Nixon in China | February 21, 1972 - First visit to Communist China by sitting U.S. president, symbolized softening relations with communist China | 37 | |
| 13312633042 | SALT I Treaty | A five-year agreement between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, signed in 1972, that limited the nations' numbers of intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched missiles. |  | 38 |
| 13312633043 | Roe v Wade | Established national abortion guidelines disallowing state prohibitions on abortion; trimester guidelines because of a woman's "right to privacy" | 39 | |
| 13312633044 | Watergate | Scandal that began with a break-in of Democratic Headquarters and resulted in a massive cover-up by the Nixon Administration. Ultimately led to his resignation before impeachment could occur | 40 | |
| 13312633045 | Jimmy Carter | (1977-1981), Created the Department of Energy and the Dept. of Education, Return the Panama Canal Zone, negotiated Camp David Accords, failed to secure hostages from Iranian embassy | 41 | |
| 13312633046 | Camp David Accords | (1978) Negotiated by Carter between Egypt and Israel, returned the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt, guaranteed Israeli access to the Red Sea and Suez Canal, and more-or-less normalized diplomatic and economic relations between the two countries. |  | 42 |
| 13312633047 | Iran Hostage Crisis | 1979, revolutionaries stormed the American embassy in Tehran and held 52 Americans hostage. Released after Reagan's inauguration | 43 | |
| 13312633048 | Salt II Treaty | This treaty was a controversial experiment of negotiations between Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev from 1977 to 1979 between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, which sought to curtail the manufacture of strategic nuclear weapons. | 44 | |
| 13312633052 | Nagasaki | Japanese city in which the second atomic bomb was dropped (August 9, 1945). | 45 |
