Roaring 20's
This economic trend encouraged Americans to buy more products like cars and radios during the 1920s.
What is consumerism?
These raids targeted suspected communists and radicals after World War I.
What are the Palmer Raids?
Buying stocks with borrowed money is known as this.
What is buying on margin?
The attack on this location brought the U.S. into World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This U.S. policy promised aid to countries resisting communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The belief that countries would fall to communism one after another was called this.
What is the Domino Theory?
This Supreme Court case ended legal segregation in public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This amendment started Prohibition in the United States.
What is the 18th Amendment?
Sacco and Vanzetti were controversial because many believed they were convicted due to this.
What are anti-immigrant and anti-anarchist prejudices?
These radio broadcasts helped FDR communicate directly with Americans.
What are Fireside Chats?
Executive Order 9066 led to....
the internment of Japanese Americans.
This event involved the Soviet Union blocking access to West Berlin in 1948.
What is the Berlin Blockade?
This 13-day crisis in 1962 nearly caused nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This teenager’s murder helped spark greater support for the Civil Rights Movement.
Who was Emmett Till?
This trial highlighted the conflict between evolutionism and fundamentalism in the 1920s.
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
This movement saw millions of African Americans leave the rural South and move to northern cities like Chicago and Detroit in search of jobs and better opportunities during the 1900s.
The Great Migration
FDR’s New Deal focused on these “Three R’s.”
What are Relief, Recovery, and Reform?
Germany was led by this dictator during WWII.
Who was Adolf Hitler?
These lists prevented suspected communists from getting jobs in entertainment and government.
What are blacklists?
This surprise 1968 attack weakened American support for the Vietnam War.
What is the Tet Offensive?
These nine students integrated Central High School in Arkansas in 1957.
Who were the Little Rock Nine?
How did the goals of the 1920s Ku Klux Klan differ from those of the original Klan during Reconstruction?
The 1920s Klan expanded its targets to include Catholics, Jews, and immigrants
Immigration quota laws of the 1920s were designed mainly to:
Favor immigrants from Northern and Western Europe while restricting immigration from others (Asia, Esatern Europe, etc.)
Why did the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act worsen the effects of the Great Depression internationally?
High tariffs reduced international trade as other nations responded with tariffs of their own
This program allowed the U.S. to send war materials to Allied nations before officially entering WWII.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for allegedly doing this.
What is spying for the Soviet Union?
These two reforms by Mikhail Gorbachev helped lead to the end of the Cold War.
What are Glasnost and Perestroika?
This 1963 event featured Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
What is the March on Washington?
Name TWO unintended consequences of Prohibition.
Organized crime grew, bootlegging increased, speakeasies became popular, corruption increased, etc.
This Harlem Renaissance song by Billie Holiday protested lynching in America.
What is “Strange Fruit”?
Name THREE causes of the Great Depression.
Speculation, buying on margin, uneven distribution of income, living on credit, failing industries, Hoover’s response
Give ONE argument for and ONE argument against dropping the atomic bomb on Japan.
For: quickly ended war/saved American lives. Against: massive civilian casualties/start of nuclear age, etc.
Why was Eastern Europe considered strategically important during the early Cold War period?
It acted as a buffer zone between Soviet and Western influence
Explain two reasons why the Soviet Union collapsed.
Economic problems, political unrest, arms race costs, Gorbachev’s reforms, nationalist movements, etc.
Explain how the Selma March helped lead to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
The violence was televised and received national attention increasing public support