Presdient Franklin D. Roosevelt created this program aimed at "Relief, Recovery, and Reform" to pull America out of the Great Depression.

A combination of manmade and natural factors in the 1930's created this term, which refers to the serve storms that plauged the Great Plains and changed its ecology

"A day that shall live in infamy" - December 7, 1941, led to US involvement in World War II.

In what US state can you find the momument the USS Arizona and 2,390 Americans that were killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?

Part of FDR's "New Deal", this corperation was created to provide electricty, flood control and economic developement to several states, including portions of Kentucky.

The United States offically entered World War II in December 1941. It declared war on Japan, which executed of a surprise attack against a US Navy base here on December 7 1941.

Who defeated Herbert Hoover in 1932 to win the first of his four presidential elections?

A series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1939.

Although D-Day can refer to any amphibious landing, in most people's minds it refers to the Allied landings on June 6, 1944, in what part of France?

This was the code name of the United States secret program for the research and development of nuclear weapons in the 1940's under the direction of Robert Oppenheimer.

In 1950, President Truman sent troops that take part in which war for control of an Asian country to help stop the spread of communism during the Cold War?

This term described the separation of blacks and whites in the United States in late 19th and early 20th century.

What was the name of the movement by African Americans to gain their full rights as citizens in the 1950's and 1960's?

She is rememberd for her refusal to abide by Jim Crow law creating a separate section on a Montgomery, Alabama public bus, sparking a boycott in 1955

Which of the following cities gained worldwide attention in 1957 when a federal judge ordered Central High School there to admit nine African American students?

The youngest ELECTED president, John F. Kennedy's presidency is remembered mostly for his assassination, and this Cold War conflict.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was due largely in part to the work of this African American minister who was shot in Memphis

Champions of The Civil Rights movement, all of these men were assassinated in the 1960's, except....

The Tet Offensive was a series of surprise attacks by the communist controlled Viet Cong forces on cities across US assisted South during this Cold War era conflict.

In 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were aboard what famous space flight that first landed on the moon.

Who became the first president to resign when he faced almost certain impeachment over the Watergate scandal.

It was a symbol of communism that finally came down in 1989. Ronald Regan famously declared, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall," a few years earlier.

This landmark was attacked by Al Quida on September 11th, 2001, but was not destroyed and is still in use today as out center for military operations.