The conservative president who feared helping people during the Depression believing govt "handouts" would weaken their incentive to work for a living.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
100
3 qualties of a military dictator.
What is being charismatic, militaristic, and highly controlling?
100
The closest the world came to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
100
The way Nixon won many white southern votes.
What is slowing school integration?
200
The famous trial that pitted science against religion when a high school teacher broke a law by teaching evolution.
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
200
When people invest in risky stocks or land deals to make a quick profit.
What is speculation?
200
As the clouds of war began building in Europe in the 1930s America clung to this policy to avoid becoming involved in any conflict.
What is isolationism?
200
The Supreme Court decision that kicked off the Civil Rights Movement that was decided under Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
200
Nixon's 2 important actions to reduce Cold War tensions.
What is visiting China and the USSR?
300
The reason women began demanding social equality by behaving like their male counterparts and dressing as flappers.
What is political equality through the 19th Amendment?
300
Effects of the Great Depression.
What is massive unemployment, poverty, bank and business failures?
300
The turning point of the war in the Pacific.
What is the Battle of Midway?
300
3 of Johnsons Great Society programs designed to win the "war on poverty."
What is Headstart, Medicare, and public housing?
300
President Carter's legislative attemp to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.
What is the National Energy Act?
400
The reason for anti-immigrant hysteria in the 1920s.
What were the effects of WWI?
400
3 of FDR's New Deal Programs.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA); the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC); and the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
400
3 examples of America's attempts to contain communism around the world.
What is the Berlin Airlift, Marshall Plan, the Korean War.
400
Many Americans stopped supporting the Vietnam War after this event which proved 1)the war was NOT almost over and 2) the administration had not been truthful about the war.
What is the Tet Offensive?
400
President Carter's greatest achievement, getting a peace agreement signed by Israel and Egypt.
What is the Camp David Accords?
500
One of the more embarassing scandals of President Harding's administration; his secretary of the Interior sold naval oil reserves for his own profit.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
500
Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor devised this plan to help a certain group of Americans.
What is Social Security?
500
The congressional committee determined to root out communists in American society especially in powerful industries such as Hollywood.
What is the House UnAmerican Activities Committee?
500
The Native American group who took hostages at Wounded Knee to protest federal policies.
What is the American Indian Movement?
500
2 effects of Reagan's increase in defense spending by 43% (one positive and one negative).
What is increasing the deficit and weakening the USSR?