McCarthyism
This was the first group of people to face loyalty tests for communist leanings in the 1940s.
Who were federal employees?
Where were North Korea and South Korea divided at the end of WWII?
What is the 38th Parallel?
The US entered WWII in this year.
What is 1941?
FDR received criticism for this proposal after several key New Deal programs from his first term did not survive into his second term.
What is the court packing plan?
Failed invasion of Cuba that took place in 1961
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
The Anticommunist movement was spurred on by these 4 groups (must name 3)
Who were bureaucrats, politicians, journalists, and business leaders?
These are the years of the Korean War.
What are 1950-1953?
These laws were the result of isolationist pressures in Congress throughout the 1930s.
What are the Neutrality Acts?
This is a foundational statute of labor law that guarantees the right of private sector employees to organize into trade unions, engage in collective bargaining, and take collective action such as strikes. It included a ban on company unions.
What is the Wagner Act? (National Labor Relations Act of 1935 ok too)
Passed after the assassination of JFK, this prohibited racial discrimination in employment, hospitals, schools, and privately owned accommodations
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This was the director of the FBI who relentlessly hunted Communists.
Who is J. Edgar Hoover?
The Korean War began when the North Korean military crossed in South Korea and captured this city, its capital.
What is Seoul?
This Supreme Court case upheld Japanese Internment.
What is Korematsu v US?
A period of severe storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American prairie during the 1930s.
What is The Dust Bowl?
Although this person lost the presidential election of 1964, his campaign and publication of The Conscience of a Conservative spurred the growth of a Conservative movement.
Who is Barry Goldwater?
This was the committee to which suspected communists were subpoenaed for public hearings.
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee?
This general was fired after he argued publicly with Truman about how far to go in pushing back against the North Korean military and Chinese supporters.
Who was Douglas MacArthur?
This was the name for the battle in France that started the second front.
What is D-day/Battle of Normandy?
This is one of the New Deal agencies that would fit into the Reform category. (Name the agency, what it was intended to do, + why it fits into this category)
What is....(many options)?
Following urban riots, Johnson commissioned this study to determine causes of the unrest. Its conclusion was that violence was caused by "segregation and poverty?"
In 1953, support for Joseph McCarthy's actions and character began to fall after his investigations into this organization.
What is the US Army?
Why was President Truman able to send troops to Korea without a declaration of war from Congress?
It was considered a U.N. action because Truman convinced 15 others countries to join the fight.
These were the last 2 major battles in the Asian theater prior to the use of the atomic bomb. (must name both)
What were Iwo Jima and Okinawa?
This is one of the New Deal agencies that would fit into the Recovery category. (Name the agency, what it was intended to do, + why it fits into this category)
What is...many options?
Martin Luther King's language became more radical as he led people who were demanding an end to discrimination in unions, equal access to mortgages, integration of public housing, and the construction of low-income housing. These ideas were embodied in this.
What is the Chicago Freedom Movement?
This is the name for a leader who uses the power of a mob to attack in the name of patriotism. They appeal to prejudice instead of reason.
What is a demagogue?
This strategic location separates Korea and China and was hotly contested during the war.
What is the Yalu River?
At this event, Allied leaders established a military administration for Germany and agreed to place top Nazis on trial for war crimes.
What is the Potsdam Conference?
These groups comprised the New Deal coalition. (must name all)
What are: (1) lower-income groups in cities—African Americans, union members, + ethnic/religious minorities (2) Urban intellectuals, (3)traditional source of Democratic strength, "the Solid South”
In 1965, this abandoned the national-origins quota system of immigration.
What is the Hart-Celler Act?