1920's
What is demobilization?
What is the transition from wartime to peacetime
What is the difference between a bear market and a bull market?
Bull: one with an upward trend in stock prices
Bear: one with a downward trend in stock prices
Where did Germany first invade that OFFICIALLY started the war?
Poland
Who gave the iron curtain speech
Winston Churchill
What was the brown vs board
Supreme Court case which overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and ordered schools to be integrated
What was the Red Scare?
What was the period of anticommunist hysteria during 1919-1920
What caused the Great Depression?
global depression, business cycle, income gap and consumer debt
What was Hitler's ultimate goal?
Take over all of Europe and eventually the entire world
What two types of governments "battled" in the Cold War?
democracy and communism
Who was Rosa Parks
NAACP secretary who prompted the Montgomery Bus Boycott by refusing to give up her seat in 1955
Who were Sacco and Vanzetti?
Who is two Italian immigrants who were convicted of murder and sentenced to death without thorough evidence
What are 4 facts of business life in America during the Great Depression?
1.5 million unemployed, racial discrimination in the workplace, women workers became popular, employies had little income
What were the two main alliances in World War II?
Axis and Allies
Who were the Big Three: countries and leaders?
FDR/Truman, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin
What was the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
civil rights organization devoted to achieving equality through non-violent civil disobedience
Divisions of the Women moment emerged over which amendment?
What is the Equal Rights Amendment
What is rugged individualism?
Hoover's idea that success comes through individual effort and private enterprise
Who were in the Axis Powers? (Main Countries)
-Germany
-Italy
-Japan
What was the Truman Doctrine
President Truman's policy of giving American aid to nations threatened by communist expansion.
Who were freedom riders?
early 60s movement by SNCC & CORE members to desegregate buses in the South
Name 3 life changing inventions
automobile, assembly line, radio
What was the Bonus army?
WWI veterans and families came together to protest to grant veteran- many of which were unemployed- early payment of pension bonus's
What events led up to the Japanese bombing at Pearl Harbor?
-Japanese invade the Philippines (American Territory)
-U.S. is mad. FDR freezes all Japanese investments in the United States and stops all trade of rubber and oil with Japan
-Japanese bombs Pearl Harbor
what was the berlin wall
A wall built by the communist East German government in 1961 to seal off East Berlin from West Berlin.
Who was Macolm X?
Black Muslim (NoI) spokesman who called for armed self-defense against white racism & violence