1920's
Popular new music genre during this time
What is Jazz?
President during the start of the Great Depression
Who is Herbert Hoover?
1939- 1945
what is the dates of WWII?
Event that made Jim Crow laws possible?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Amendment that created prohibition
What is the 18th?
Years of drought, overproduction, and no crop rotation created this event
What is the Dust Bowl?
Also known as "bull dog"
Who is Winston Churchill?
Name given to the division of the communist and non-communist when they were split in half.
what is the iron curtain?
Amendment that abolished slavery
Name given to new style of the teens in the 1920s
What is the flapper?
Event that started the Great Depression
What is the stock market crash?
Parallel that Korea was divided by
What is the 38th parallel?
War without actual fighting
What is the "Cold War"?
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
This new invention allowed individualism, tourism, and city expansion.
What is the automobile?
Name given to shanty towns built in the slums during the Great Depression
What is Hoovervilles?
Pact between the Soviet Union and Germany that agreed not to attack eachother
What is the non- aggression pact?
several thousand Cuban exiles (armed and trained by the U.S.) attempt to overthrow Castro, a disaster
What is the Bay of Pigs?
Governor of Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement
Who is George Wallace?
A device made to broadcast news, create entertainment, and create national uniformity.
What is the radio?
Trial that covered evolution in public schools, happened in Dayton, TN
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
Plan that the US helped countries in order to to create trade, humanitarian reasons, and to rebuild
What is the Marshall Plan?
U.S. discovers that the Soviets are building missile launch sites in Cuba; Kennedy demands they are dismantled and destroyed with missiles and bombers removed; it is done
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Landmark case that ruled “separate but equal is inherently unequal.” Basically overturns the “separate but equal” doctrine established with Plessy v. Ferguson. Schools will now need to integrate with all deliberate speed.
What is "Brown vs. Board of Education"?