World War I and World War II
Two enormous global conflicts in the first half of the 1900s reshaped the world and made the United States a leading power. Knowing the basic causes, the U.S. role, and the outcomes of World War I and World War II covers a solid block of test questions. World War I (1914–1918) and World War II […]
Civil Rights and Supreme Court Decisions
Nearly a century after the Civil War, African Americans still faced legal segregation and denied rights. The Civil Rights Movement and a series of landmark Supreme Court decisions finally began to dismantle that system. This story ties together history, civics, and the idea of equal protection. The Civil Rights Movement was the mid-20th-century struggle to […]
