1920s
Due to xenophobia, the following people were put to death for something that did not have sufficient evidence.
Sacco and Vanzetti
Stock market crash, start of the Great Depression.
What is Black Tuesday?
Term used to describe the hatred of the Jewish race.
What is antisemitism?
The race to space resulted in the Soviet Union creating a satellite that became known as...
What is Sputnik?
Became known as the court case that decreed "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Expansion of this terrorist group occurred in the early 1920s targeting African Americans and Immigrants.
What is the KKK?
This severe drought in the midwest during the 1930s added to the hardship of farmers and other workers during the Great Depression years.
What is the "dust bowl"?
After WWII returning soldiers were given unemployment benefits, college funds and housing loans.
What is the G.I. Bill?
Term used by the United States to describe stopping the spread of communism.
What is containment?
The Supreme Court case that overturned the decision made by the predecessor, allowing for the Civil Rights Movement to prosper.
What is Brown v. The Board of Education?
This became the first amendment to ever be repealed, enforced by the Volstead Act.
What is the 18th Amendment, Prohibition?
Roosevelt's program to fight the Great Depression. Some of these programs are still in effect today.
What is the New Deal?
The development of what top secret weapon was known as the Manhattan Project?
What is the atomic bomb?
The trials that showed the world you can be punished for acts committed during the war.
What are the Nuremberg Trials?
Ends discriminatory practices that prevented equal access to voting
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This teacher began teaching Darwinism, going against the culturally accepted belief in faith.
Who is John T. Scopes?
Roosevelt's 3 R's.
What are Relief, Reform, and Recovery?
Term used to describe the United States tactic of conquering each individual island in the Pacific.
What is island hopping?
The country was divided at the 38th parallel?
What is the outcome of the Korean War?
Made Jim Crow laws unconstitutional, you are not allowed to discriminate in public places.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Many people were able to purchase large items on credit.
What is an Installment Plan?
Dust bowl, Overproduction of consumer goods, Consumers buying on credit,and bank failures.
What are causes of the Great Depression?
The United States used this to force relocation or imprisonment of Japanese-American citizens.
What is internment?
Gave aid to any country fighting off communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
King delivers the “I Have a Dream” Speech
What is the March on Washington 1963?