Unit 4
The supreme court case that initiated the doctrine of separate but equal.
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
This law was a result of the book The Jungle
What was the Pure Food and Drug act?
This group of soldiers carried a secret code that greatly helped against the Japanese
Who were the Navajo Code Talkers?
This program directly resulted in technological advancement beyond just getting to the moon
What was the space program?
William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer created this type of journalism spreading lies and sensational stories
What is yellow journalism?
This law allowed the federal government to break up trusts.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This allowed for the economy to greatly increase during the 1920s
What is mass production?
This policy, created by Richard Nixon began to slowly turn responsibility of the war to the Vietnamese people
What was Vietnamization?
As a result of this, pollution became a serious issue in cities
What was urbanization?
Years of over farming and drought cased this event
What is the Dust Bowl?
As a policy of containment, the United States limited exports to these countries
What is the Soviet Bloc?
Politicians increasingly needed to do this to be successful as a candidate
What is adaptation to new media?
During World War I propaganda was created to have people buy these to help pay for the war.
What are war bonds?
As a result of these programs the federal government took more control over the economy during the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
This group of soldiers broke barriers and became some of the most successful pilots of World War II.
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
This war was the first example of the US policy of containment
What was the Korean war?
This was caused by improvements in manufacturing, transportation, and technology.
What is rapid industrialization?
This term refers to American born people who were opposed to immigrants
What was nativism?
This New Deal program provided retirement benefits for older Americans
What was the Social Security Act?
General George Patton led the Western Task Force during this allied attack in World War II
What is Operation Torch?
This term refers to the difference in information the public was getting from the government vs information from the media about the Vietnam War
What was the credibility gap?
New Deal programs showed that by doing this the government could address major crises
What is raise revenue?