Progressive Era
interracial organization founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination and to achieve political and civil rights for African Americans.
NAACP
United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production (1863-1947).
Henry Ford
credit buying, overproduction, less consumer spending, falling stocks, stock market speculation
Causes of the Great Depression
The 1962 confrontation between US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba.
Cuban Missile Crisis
The term associated with a senator who led the search for communists in America during the early 1950s through his leadership in the House Un-American Activities Committee.
McCarthyism
This 1906 work by Upton Sinclair pointed out the abuses of the meat packing industry. The book led to the passage of the 1906 Meat Inspection Act.
The Jungle
Plunge in stock market prices that marked the beginning of the Great Depression
Stock market crash of 1929/Black Tuesday
A series of reforms enacted by the Franklin Roosevelt administration between 1933 and 1942 with the goal of ending the Great Depression.
The New Deal
if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control.
Domino Theory
The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated.
Brown v Board of Education
a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal
Plessy V. Ferguson
This amendment gave women the right to vote
19th amendment
Dec 7 1941; Japanese attack American naval base and airforces in Oahu; US declares war on japan, Italy and Germany declare war on US
Attack on Pearl Harbor
American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world
Containment
LBJ's policies of fighting poverty and racial injustice
Great Society
860-1935. Founder of Settlement House Movement. First American Woman to earn Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 as president of Women's Intenational League for Peace and Freedom.
Jane Addams
movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920
Great Migration
A secret U.S. project for the construction of the atomic bomb.
Manhattan Project
policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology
Truman Doctrine
A federal program of health insurance for persons 65 years of age and older
Medicare
A leading muckraker and magazine editor, she exposed the corruption of the oil industry with her 1904 work A History of Standard Oil.
Ida Tarbell
A telegram Germany Sent to Mexico to convince Mexico to attack the U.S.
Zimmerman Telegram
Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944
D Day
an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security against Soviet aggression
NATO
the largest public works program in American history and facilitated the growth of suburbs and the complex of industries that sustained them
Interstate and Defense Highways Act