Events
Albert Fall, a former Secretary of the Interior, was charged with accepting bribes from oil companies in exchange for exclusive rights to drill for oil on federal land. Was known as____
What is Teapot Dome Scandal
Commanded US troops in Vietnam.
Who is Westmoreland.
What is de jure.
The banking system was reformed by the
What is Glass Steagall Act.
U.S. v. USSR
What is the Cold War.
John L. Lewis is associated with what strike?
What is coal miners strike.
Dixiecrat candidate in 1948.
Who is J. Strom Thurmond.
Investigated communism in the film industry
What is HUAC.
Provided Americans 65 and old with health insurance.
What is Medicare.
Montgomery Bus Boycott, Brown v. Board of Education, Black Power
What is the Civil Rights Movement.
African Americans moving from the South to northern cities from 1910-1920 was known as ____
What is The Great Migration.
What US general led allied troops in the battles in the Pacific? (Bataan, Leyte, Iwo Jima)
Who is MacArthur.
investor makes a small down payment and borrowed the rest from a broker.
What is buying on margin.
Made segregation illegal in public places.
What is Civil Rights Act of 1964.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, what did Kennedy order?
What is a naval quarantine around Cuba to stop missiles being shipped to Cuba.
V-E day or May 8, 1945 was the day when ____
What is Germany surrendered.
Accused of robbery and murder during the red scare in the 1920s.
Who is Sacco and Vanzetti
separation of the races
What is segregation.
Under Kennedy enabled the U.S. to fight limited wars around the world.
What is flexible response.
Anti-war Protests, Kent State Massacre, Search and Destroy
What is Vietnam.
What are the causes of the Great Depression?
Hint there are 4!
What is stock market crash, uneven distribution of income, high tariffs, farming crisis, and easy credit.
The business of American is business
Who is Coolidge.
systematic killing of a specific group of people
What is genocide.
After the U.S. formed NATO the USSR formed ____ to provide security for its communist satellite nations.
What is Warsaw Pact.
A person who feels they are not getting treated fairly in the United States can use what Amendment to argue their case.
What is the 14th Amendment.