WWI/Roaring 20's
This is the reason(s) the United States joined WWI
What is unrestricted submarine warfare (Sinking of Lusitania)
What is Zimmerman Telegram
This event in October 1929 is traditionally considered the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is the Wall Street Crash of 1929?
This cultural allegory/character was based on the wartime program that recruited women to work industrial jobs traditionally held by men
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
This Supreme Court case declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional
What is Brown v. Board of Education
This 1970s scandal forced President Richard Nixon to resign from office
What is Watergate?
This limited freedom of speech towards the war effort in the later years of WWI
What is Espionage & Sedition Acts?
This event highlighted the failure of Herbert Hoover's laissez faire attitude towards solving the Great Depression - where roughly 17,000 WWI veterans protesting outside of Washington DC were attacked by the U.S Army
What is the Bonus Army?
This battle is widely considered the turning point of the war in the Pacific because it stopped Japanese expansion and shifted momentum to the United States
What is the Battle of Midway
This 1948 crisis began after the Soviet Union blocked Western access to parts of Berlin, leading the United States and its allies to organize a massive airlift
What was the Berlin Blockade?
This foreign policy scandal involved secret arms sales to Iran and illegal funding of anti-communist rebels in Nicaragua during the Reagan administration
What was the Iran-Contra Affair
This government agency mobilized the economy from a peacetime to a wartime economy
What is the War Industries Board? (WIB)
After the Supreme Court struck down several New Deal programs, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed this controversial 1937 plan that critics claimed threatened the system of checks and balances.
What was "the court-packing plan"
This 1944 legislation provided returning World War II veterans with benefits such as low-interest home loans, tuition assistance, and unemployment aid, significantly shaping postwar American society
What is the GI Bill?
This document argued that the United States should dramatically increase military spending to combat global communism
What is NSC-68?
This 1979 agreement between Jimmy Carter and Egypt and Israel helped establish peace between the two nations
What was the Camp David Accords?
These 2 fundamental ideologies clashed during the roaring 20's - a great example of this is seen through the Monkey-Scopes Trial
Wha is modernism? What is fundamentalism?
This "radio priest" who was initially in support of FDR's New Deal was a vocal critic of FDR to 30 million weekly listeners - championing the fusion of politics and religion
Who was Father Coughlin
This wartime meeting between Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin focused on plans for postwar Europe and the final defeat of Germany
What is the Yalta Conference?
This 1965 voting rights event in Alabama became known as “Bloody Sunday” after peaceful marchers were attacked by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge
What was the Selma to Montgomery March
In his 2002 State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush used this phrase to describe countries accused of supporting terrorism and seeking weapons of mass destruction, specifically Iraq, Iran, and North Korea
What is the axis of evil?
This supreme court case upheld the conviction of two Italian immigrants convicted on a murder rap - becoming a symbol of nativism and xenophobia throughout the 1920's
What is the Sacco & Vanzetti Case
The first woman Cabinet member, serving as Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945 and implementing many of FDR's most essential New Deal policies?
Who is Frances Perkins
This Mexican labor agreement supplied temporary agricultural workers to the United States during World War II
What is the Bracero Program?
This 1960 incident embarrassed the Eisenhower administration and heightened Cold War tensions when pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot down and captured by the Soviet Union
What is the U2 Incident?
This 1993 law, officially named the Handgun Violence Prevention Act, established federal background checks and waiting periods for certain firearm purchases
What was the Brady Bill?