Great Depression
Dorothea Lange's most famous picture during the great depression
What is Migrant Mother
A law that authorized the president to transfer military equipment and supplies to any nation deemed vital to American defense
What is the Lend-Lease Act
Term that refers to a nation under Soviet control
What is satellite nations
A method used to limit the number of African Americans who could vote
What are Literacy Tests
An event that symbolized the end of the Cold War
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall
The name of the movement in which African Americans moved from the South to Northern cities
What is the Great Migration
The strategy Germany used when attacking Poland
What is Blitzkrieg
How Korea is divided into two countries
What is the 38th Parallel
How manufacturers encouraged people to continue buying more consumer goods
What is planned obsolescence
Famous speech given during the March on Washington
What is the "I have a dream" speech
This policy limited the number of immigrants allowed into the United States after WWI
What is the Quota System
Nationwide attack where rioters destroyed Jewish-owned businesses, synagogues, and homes, marking a devastating turning point in the persecution of Jewish people
What is Kristallnacht
A failed, covert military operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba, authorized by President Kennedy
What is the Bay of Pigs
Conclusion of the Plessy v Ferguson case
What is Separate but Equal is legal
Name for an impoverished community composed of makeshift, unpermitted housing during the Great Depression
What is Shantytown
On October 29, this major event caused panic selling in the stock market
What is Black Tuesday
The overall strategy that FDR and Churchill decided on after Pearl Harbor
What is Europe First
An international agreement that prohibits all test detonations of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, in outer space, and underwater
What is the Limited Test Ban Treaty
The first African-American student admitted to the racially segregated University of Mississippi
What is James Meredith?
The 2nd Japanese city to be bombed using an atomic bomb by the United States
What is Nagasaki
2 of the prominent federal groups established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s to help recover from the Great Depression
An initiative where Mexican men went to the United States on short-term contracts to alleviate agricultural and railroad labor shortages during the war
What is the Bracero Program
A massive, coordinated surprise attack by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces against U.S. and South Vietnamese troops on the lunar new year
What is the Tet Offensive
An investigation into the causes of widespread urban race riots and to recommend solutions to prevent future civil unrest
What is the Kerner Commission
Name given to those who supported the military intervention to stop the spread of communism
What is Hawks