Great Depression and New Deal
This event is generally cited as THE cause of the Great Depression, but it really isn't all that.
What is the stock market crash of 1929?
This policy drove U.S. actions in regards to the Soviet Union and Communism throughout the Cold War.
What is containment?
This Supreme Court decision led (eventually) to the desegregation of all schools in America
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
A photo ID, your charged Chromebook, a sweatshirt, and a good attitude
What are things to bring to the test tomorrow?
This president resigned before Congress could impeach him for his role in a coverup.
Who is Richard Nixon?
These are the "Three R's" of the New Deal programs.
What are Relief, Recovery, and Reform?
This "police action" never achieved full war status but still led to a 5 star general being fired and still has not officially ended.
What is the Korean War?
This leader of the Nation of Islam advocated a more radical approach to civil rights fights and even advocated racial separation
Who is Malcolm X?
The migration of Americans to warmer climates and out of urban areas led to a shift of power and taxes from the Northeast and Midwest to this area.
What is the Sunbelt?
This Great Depression president tried to pack the Supreme Court in order to get them to stop declaring his New Deal programs unconstitutional.
Who is FDR?
This was the highest tariff in US history (until the recent tariffs by President Trump) and sharply decreased international trade deepening the Great Depression
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
While there were actual cases of espionage during the Cold War, this search for Communists among government workers, artists, and even the Boy Scouts of America did not actually keep America safer
What is the Red Scare?
This Alabama governor would go on to unsuccessfully run for president in 1968 after blocking African American students from entering the University of Alabama in 1963
Who is George Wallace?
While conservation and the environment had been a focus during the Great Depression, the passage of this act hurt the environment and cities as it promoted cars, trucks and highways (but now you can land a plane on a highway)
What is the Highway Act?
This young president followed the advice of senior officials and approved a plan to invade Cuba which was disaster.
Who is JFK?
This program, along with others during the New Deal, promoted conservation of natural resources, something FDR got from his cousin Teddy
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
These two Republican presidents were responsible for periods of detante with the USSR. Some say they were the only ones who could have softened relations
Who are Nixon and Reagan?
This amendment to the Constitution abolishes poll taxes, one of the ways states kept poor people from voting.
What is the 24th Amendment?
This term describes a stagnant economy that also faces high inflation, like the U.S. economy in the 1970s
What is stagflation?
President Reagan denied he had knowledge of the deal to sell weapons to Iran in exchange for a release of hostages in Lebanon and funding the Contra insurgency in Nicaragua
What is the Iran-Contra Affair?
New Deal legislation like the Fair Labor Standards Act and the National Industrial Recovery Act led to increased membership in these organizations.
What are labor unions?
U.S. military spending and these two internal policies led to the downfall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
What are glastnost and perestroika?
This commission, charged with identifying the causes of the riots of 1968 found that the US was becoming "two societies, one back, one white - separate and unequal"
What is the Kerner Commission?
This doctrine promised support to any Middle Eastern country threatened by Communism
What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?
This president declared "Mission Accomplished" 8 years before U.S. troops stopped fighting.
Who is George W. Bush?