US Presidents
US President during WWI
Woodrow Wilson
Prominent Civil Rights leader, widely known for this ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech at the March on Washington.
ML King
States that no citizen can be denied the right to vote because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
15th Amendment
In 1962, 13 Day standoff between US and USSR; closest the world has come to nuclear war
Cuban Missile Crisis
Policy in which stronger nations control weaker countries / territories.
imperialism
US President during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
John F Kennedy
Rosa Parks
First law in US History that restricted immigration.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
As a result of this conflict the United States, gained Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and control of the Philippines.
The Spanish-American War
Sensational style of journalism
What is Yellow Journalism?
US President at the end of WWII and the start of the Cold War.
Truman
Muckraking journalist whose photographs exposed the poverty and hardships facing immigrants in NY City.
Jacob Riis
Guarantees that all people born or naturalized in the US are citizens and no state can restrict their rights
What is the 14th Amendment?
Sparked by an assassination, this conflict broke out due to alliances, imperialism, nationalism and militarism.
WWI
Championed by FDR, series of laws and organizations created to address the issues of the Great Depression..
The New Deal
US President at the time of the 9-11 Terror Attacks.
One of the most important US Civil Rights activists; Harvard graduate that helped found the NAACP.
WEB duBois
Ratified by congress in 1919, gave women the right to vote.
19th Amendment
Attack on this naval base in Hawaii let the US to enter WWII. FDR said was a “day that would live in infamy.”
Business that controls the production and distribution of a particular good or service.
A monopoly
US President who promoted ‘Peace with Honor’ as approach to removing US troops from Vietnam and
transferring responsibility for war to S. Vietnam.
Nixon
Murder of this 14 year old boy in Mississippi was a catalyst for the start of the Civil Rights Movement.
Emmett Till
US Supreme Court decision stating that segregation was constitutional so long as it was ‘separate but equal.”
Plessy v Ferguson
Surprise attack on all major cities in S. Vietnam; led to decline in US support for US involvement in Vietnam war, as it demonstrated lack of ‘progress’ in war that the government had been promising.
The Tet Offensive
Peace agreement at end of WWI, which imposed harsh terms on Germany and contributed to 2nd World War.
The Treaty of Versailles