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what date did the US get involved in WW2

Dec 8th 1941

day after Pearl Harbor

100

Who are the allied powers?

US

Soviet Union

GB

100

Germany advances taking over multiple countries while the Britain and France follow a policy of __________

appeasement

100
who was the civil rights leader in Birmingham before MLK got there?
Reverend Shuttlesworth
100

This person said that use of the atomic bomb was an absolute military necessity because we needed the prompt and complete surrender of Japan

Henry Stimson

200

year great depression starts

1929
200

Two countries involved in cold war

US and Russia

200

WW1 vets want there 1000 dollar bonus so they go to washington

Bonus March

200
This radical civil rights leader did not agree with JFK support of the civil rights bill or the march because he said it was done for the wrong reasons

Malcolm X

200

This person said that the brown vs board of education case would not have happened if the US wasn't trying to woo Africa in the cold war

James Baldwin

300

President of the US in 1932

FDR

300

Police chief in Birmingham Alabama

Bull Conner

300
US troops get involved after desegregation of this school is blocked first by guards then by violent white mob
Central High School in Little Rock
300

Biggest cause of the great depression

overproduction

300
this person was the radical leader of the civil rights movement who wrote black reconstruction and said that the problem of the 20th century is the color line

WEB Dubois

400

Date of the SNCC student sit in movement

Feb 1960

400

SNCC leader whose speech was censored and is now a senator

John Lewis

400

Civil rights movement is not moving fast enough so this is introduced to speed up the process and the leaders of the movement called to JFK to see if violent or nonviolent

March on Washington

400

what were the two battle grounds in the cold war

1st: Italy, Greece, and France --US Wins

2nd: Third World: Latin America, Asia, and Africa-- Segregation is making it hard to win

400

this person said the anti lynching bill was not a primary focus because the south has seniority in government and would veto everything after if he tried

FDR

500

year of case brown V board of education

1954

500
President during the Great depression

Hoover

500

In this meeting, we were going to ask for russia to join us in the war in Japan but we got news that the atomic bomb worked and decided to block russia

meeting in potsdam BIG 3

500

What did Eisenhower think about the brown vs board decision?

He felt we cannot legislate morality and said he could not see a time when he would send federal troops to enforce court order

500

this person said that the depression was just a panic and people will work harder and we will come out of the depression

Secretary Mellon

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