Key People
He was president during the Great Depression and created the New Deal.
Who is FDR?
FDR's package of programs designed to provide relief, recovery, and reform during the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
The 1960s youth movement that rejected mainstream American values, embraced anti-war activism, and experimented with alternative lifestyles (drugs, music, etc).
What is the counterculture/hippies?
The event on December 7, 1941 that brought the United States into World War II.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
The year Mr. Devon was born.
What is 2001?
This senator gave speeches accusing hundreds of government officials of being secret communists, often with no evidence.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
The 1942 executive order that authorized the forced removal of Japanese Americans from the West Coast.
What is Executive Order 9066?
This organization of veterans protested the Vietnam War by throwing their military medals at the Capitol steps.
What is the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW)?
In August 1945, the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on these two Japanese cities, killing over 100,000 people and ending World War II.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
The state where Mr. Devon went to college.
What is Maine?
Leader of North Vietnam who wrote to the U.S. president asking for support for Vietnamese independence -- and never got a response.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
This 1954 Supreme Court decision declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Founded in 1966, this radical Black organization advocated armed self-defense and community programs alongside its challenge to police brutality.
What is the Black Panther Party?
This Pacific atoll was the site of repeated U.S. nuclear weapons tests in the late 1940s and 50s, displacing the Bikinian people and exposing them to devastating radiation.
What is Bikini Atoll?
Mr. Devon grew up in this Philadelphia suburb, which shares its name with a famous women's college -- and has a classroom named after it at APR.
What is Bryn Mawr?
Black poet and Harlem Renaissance figure who wrote "I, too, sing America."
Who is Langston Hughes?
This 1969 Supreme Court case ruled that students do not shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
This anti-war group started as student activists but eventually turned to domestic bombings after concluding that peaceful protest had failed.
Who are the Weathermen (Weather Underground)?
This 1962 standoff between the U.S. and Soviet Union brought the world closer to nuclear war than any other moment in the Cold War.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Before teaching, Mr. Devon spent a year living in this Southeast Asian country.
What is Laos?
This man wrote a book -- that we read -- describing his experiences in Japanese internment.
Who is George Takei?
This 1944 Supreme Court case upheld Japanese American internment as constitutional -- a decision now widely considered one of the Court's worst.
What is Korematsu v. United States?
Native American activist organization founded in 1968 to fight police brutality and assert treaty rights, known for the occupation of Wounded Knee.
What is the American Indian Movement (AIM)?
This movement involved the internal immigration of millions of Black Americans from the rural south to the urban north.
What is the Great Migration?
Mr. Devon has had surgery on both of these.
What is the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)?