The Roaring 20s
These women challenged traditional gender roles with shorter skirts, bobbed hair, and greater social freedom.
Who were flappers?
This day in October 1929 is associated with the stock market crash.
What was Black Tuesday?
This surprise attack brought the United States into World War II.
What was the attack on Attack on Pearl Harbor?
This economic system is based on private ownership and free markets.
What is capitalism?
These laws enforced racial segregation throughout the South.
What were Jim Crow laws?
This constitutional amendment banned the manufacture and sale of alcohol in 1920.
What was the 18th Amendment?
This term describes buying stocks with borrowed money.
What is buying on margin?
This policy allowed Hitler to take territory in hopes of avoiding war.
What is appeasement?
Winston Churchill used this term to describe the division between Eastern and Western Europe.
What was the Iron Curtain?
This Supreme Court case ruled that school segregation was unconstitutional.
What was Brown v. Board of Education?
This cultural movement celebrated African American art, music, and literature in New York City.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
These shantytowns were named after President Hoover.
What were Hoovervilles?
President Truman authorized the use of this new weapon against Japan.
What was the atomic bomb?
This U.S. policy promised aid to countries resisting communism.
What was the Truman Doctrine?
This boycott began after Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat.
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This violent attack destroyed a prosperous Black community known as "Black Wall Street."
What was the Tulsa Race Massacre?
This environmental disaster was caused by drought and poor farming practices on the Great Plains.
What was the Dust Bowl?
This code name was given to the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944.
What was D-Day?
This 1962 crisis brought the United States and Soviet Union closest to nuclear war.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This organization was founded by Martin Luther King Jr. to coordinate nonviolent direct-action campaigns throughout the South.
What was the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
These two immigrants were controversially convicted and executed, becoming symbols of anti-immigrant sentiment.
Who were Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti?
This New Deal program provided retirement benefits for elderly Americans.
What is the Social Security Administration?
This presidential order authorized the relocation and incarceration of over 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.
What was Executive Order 9066?
This theory suggested that if one country fell to communism, neighboring countries would follow.
What was the Domino Theory?
This law outlawed discrimination in public accommodations and employment.
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1964?