Roaring 20's
7.7-7.8
7.7-7.8
This large movement of African Americans from the south to the north shares a name with the movement of Puritans to the New World.
Great Migration
Follow-up Question: What kind of things were brought north as a result of the Great Migration?
The First New Deal created programs to address this portion of the Three R's
Recovery
Follow-up Question: When were the majority of these decisions made?
Prior to entering WWII, the United States made efforts to remain this, in spite of making moves that helped allied nations
Isolationist/Neutral
The widespread increase of atomic weapons, technology, and materials is known as this term.
Nuclear Proliferation
The United States practiced this kind of policy post-WWII. The exact opposite of the policy decision made post-WWI
Interventionism
Key figures of this artistic movement include Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington, and Bessie Smith.
Harlem Renaissance
FDR's dissatisfaction with this branch of the government and his inability to appoint new members during his first term led him to propose a plan that would give him the power to appoint 6 members, skewing decisions in his favor.
Supreme Court
Follow-up Question: What was the plan called by its critics?
This event brought the United States officially into WWII
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
The growing tension between the United States and the Soviet Union was kickstarted in large part by this event at the end of WWII.
The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
These four nations gained power in the division of Germany.
United States, Great Britain, France, Soviet Union
The spread of this gadget into the common household, made it possible to share news, values, and music to the masses.
Radio
Follow-up question: How did the spread of these messages via radio effect society?
The Bank Runs of the Great Depression happened largely because of this practice of buying a lot of stock, expecting its value to rise, then having to deal with the reality of the stock bottoming out.
Overspeculation
Born out of "cash and carry", this change to the Neutrality Act permitted Britain to obtain all the U.S. arms it needed on credit.
Lend-Lease Act.
Follow-up Question: What kind of people opposed the Lend-Lease Act?
This landmark Supreme Court decision upheld the government's internment policy as justified in wartime.
Korematsu v. United States
This President made the decision to drop the atomic bomb and, in doing so, became instrumental figure in the increase of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union
Harry S. Truman
In this trial, a teacher was convicted on the charge of teaching evolution in school, though the decision was later overturned on a technicality
Scopes "Monkey" Trial
John Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath in order to describe the conditions of the Dust Bowl, which forced people known by this nickname to move west for economic opportunity.
"Okies"
This act provided for the registration of all American men between the ages of 21 and 35 and for the training of 1.2 million troops in just one year.
Selective Service Act
These men, from one of America's minority groups, used their indigenous language to create a system for covertly sending messages during the war.
Navajo Code Talkers
The agreements made at this conference were seen by some to be a betrayal as it gave a lot of Asian land to the Soviet Union and other Communist authorities.
Yalta
The debate on the teaching of evolution was fought by these two views within the Protestant church
Modernism & Funamentalism
The Schechter Poultry v United States decision declared this reform administration, which set wages, work hours and levels of production/prices for goods, to be unconstitutional.
National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Recognizing that Fascism was dangerous, FDR gave this address proposing the democracies work together to seclude Fascist aggressors.
Quarantine Speech
The "Double V" campaign, pushed by civil rights leaders, fought for victory in these two areas.
Over fascism
Of equality at home
This man was the only one remaining of the "Big Three" by the time the Potsdam Conference rolled around.
Josef Stalin