1920
What is the 19th Amendment?
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections.
President of the United States during the Depression and WWII. He instituted the New Deal. Served from 1933 to 1945, he was the only president in U.S. history to be elected to four terms
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
event leading to US entry into WWII
What was the Attack on Pearl Harbor?
An impenetrable barrier to communication or information especially as imposed by rigid censorship and secrecy.
-Used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe the demarcation between democratic and communist countries
What was the Iron Curtain?
In an attempt to contain communism, the United States sent troops to Asia in hopes of overthrowing the communist rebels
What was the Vietnam War?
Another leading component to the start of the Great Depression. The stock became very popular in the 1920's, then in 1929 in took a steep downturn and many lost their money and hope they had put in to the stock.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
War fought from 1939 to 1945 between the Allies and the Axis, involving most countries in the world. The United States joined the Allies in 1941, helping them to victory.
What was WWII?
The first African American player in the major league of baseball. His actions helped to bring about other opportunities for African Americans.
Who was Jackie Robinson?
The major increase in population by almost 30 million people in the 1950s was called the:
What was the Baby Boom?
President who asked the Soviet leader to remove missiles from Cuba. Was also in term during the building of the Berlin wall, space race, and early Vietnam War
Who was John F. Kennedy?
This was passed in 1924 which cut quotas for foreigners from 3 % to 2% of the total number of immigrants. The main purpose was to freeze America's existing racial composition which was largely Northern European. It also prevented Japanese immigration which led to fury in Japan.
What is the Immigration Quota Act?
What is Court Packing?
attempt by Roosevelt to appoint one new Supreme Court justice for every sitting justice over the age of 70 who had been there for at least 10 years. Wanted to prevent justices from dismantling the new deal.
What year was the United States armed forces desegregated?
1948
A plan that the US came up with to revive war-torn economies of Europe and offered $13 billion in aid to western and Southern Europe.
What was the Marshall Plan?
The first large race riot since the end of World War II. In Los Angeles, a riot broke out in result of a white police officer striking a black bystander during a protest. This triggers a week of violence and anger revealing the resentment black Americans felt toward treatment toward them.
What was the Watts Riot?
Office became corrupt because of this president. Allowed drinking in prohibition, had an affair, surrounded himself w/ cronies (used office for private gain)
Who is Warren Harding?
FDR's foreign policy of promoting better relations w/Latin America by using economic influence rater than military force in the region (no more "big stick")
What is the Good Neighbor Policy?
First established in 1947 after Britain no longer could afford to provide anti-communist aid to Greece and Turkey, it pledged to provide U.S. military and economic aid to any nation threatened by communism.
What was the Truman Doctrine?
A former political party in the United States that formed in 1948 by Democrats from southern states in order to oppose to the candidacy of Harry S Truman
Who were the Dixiecrats?
What was the main reason Americans felt disgust towards the Vietnam War?
facts of what was happening got reported, filmed, and investigated by journalists who were there in Vietnam
A highly publicized trial in 1925 because a teacher violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school; was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and persecuted for teaching evolution; found guilty.
What is the Scopes Trial?
How many programs were in the New Deal?
101
Committee in the House of Representatives founded on a temporary basis in 1938 to monitor activities of foreign agents and made a standing committee in 1945.
What was the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
Which countries were known as the "Big Three?" (allies in WWII)
Soviet Union, United Kingdom, United States
What did Ho Chi Minh's "Letter to the American People" talk about and what were its effects?
The use of force the US had used against Vietnam while clamoring about "peace negotiations." He talks about the brutal use of weapons against Vietnam and their citizens and the Americans sympathize and want the war to end.