| A | B |
| Region known as the Dust Bowl is located here | Great Plains |
| New Deal program that exists today | Social Security |
| spark that brought U.S. into WWII | attack on Pearl Harbor |
| Holocaust | Killing of Jews, gypsies and others during WWII |
| United Nations | this organization was created after WWII to help create world peace |
| Cuban Missile crisis | Cold War event |
| containment after WWII | idea to stop the spread of communism |
| Joseph McCarthy | fought communism in the U.S. |
| Khrushchev | leader of the Soviet Union during the 1960s |
| Korean and Vietnam wars | Cold War conflicts fought to contain communism |
| Breakup of the Soviet Union | this event ended the Cold War |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | believed in civil disobedience to end segregation |
| Brown v. Board of Education | "separate but equal" is overturned (cancelled) |
| bring charges against the president | first step in the impeachment process |
| Richard Nixon | this president resigned over the Watergate scandal |
| Camp David agreement (accords) | peace agreement in the Middle East |
| Reagan's supply-side economics | gave tax cuts to businesses |
| Commander in Chief | one job of the President that allows him to start a war |