PROSPERITY, DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL
What is purchasing stocks with borrowed money? (hint: this led to the market crash)
buying on margin
to keep the U.S. out of foreign conflict, Congress passed a series of what acts that banned selling weapons or giving loans to nations at war?
neutraility acts
What rival broke the U.S. nuclear monopoly by testing its first atomic bomb?
Soviet union (USSR)
Rise of this culture during WW2 which led to the Vietnam War Protests.
What is hippie culture?
Some inventions in technology that increased communication and the quality of communication.
What are computers, phones, and the internet?
What New Deal agency was created to regulate the stock market and prevent the fraud that came along with the market crash?
SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission)
What policy allowed the U.S. to supply war goods to Great Britain without needing cash up front? (which ended neutrality)
Lend lease act
What U.S. foreign policy was designed to prevent the spread of communism into Eastern Europe and Asia?
Containment
Advocated for Mexican workers and regular rights
What is the UFW?
Increase in these prejudices after 9/11
What is xeniaphobia and Islamophobia?
What are young women called who challenged social norms by cutting their hair into bobs, wearing short skirts, and challenging social constraints?
Flappers
To conserve food and materials for the war effort, the government recommended that civilians plant what? (also known as War Gardens.)
Victory gardens
What U.S. program aided in the rebuilding of Western Europe, (an important part of the containment policy)?
Marshall Plan
Act that allowed for more immigration, specifically from Asia and South America
What is the 1965 Immigration Act?
Drug legalized medically as part of recent US reforms
What is medical marijuana?
What time period had a widespread fear of communism, resulted in arresting and deporting many people?
Red Scare
What native group used their unwritten language to create a secret communication code for the Allied in the Pacific?
Navajo code talkers
The U.S. and its allies formed the NATO military alliance to provide collective defense against Soviet expansion. What does NATO stand for?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Organization led to by environmentalists to reduce anthropogenic effects on the environment.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
Court ruling that allowed same sex marriges. Huge step towards LGBTQ+ reforms.
What was the Obergefell v. Hodges case?
What amendment (ratified in 1920) granted women the right to vote?
19th amendment
What policy was put into place to bring Mexican workers to the US to address farm labor shortages?
Bracero Program
Who is the U.S. Senator who started the Second Red Scare?
Joseph McCarthy
Period of increased reproduction due to WW2 soldiers returning home to wives.
What is the Baby Boom?
Security system implemented after 9/11 to secure air travel
What is TSA?