1920s
Ban of transportation, sale and manufacturing of alcohol by the 18th Amendment
Prohibition
Caused by drought and overproduction of land in the mid-west US.
Dust bowl
Name given to Germany, Italy and Japan
Axis powers
Who was Ho Chi Minh
Leader of N. Vietnam
LBJ's program to reduce poverty and racial injustice
The Great Society
Emancipated young woman
Flapper
Shanty towns during the Great Depression were called this.
Hoovervilles
A surprise air strike here led to the US entering the war
Pearl Harbor
South Vietnamese Communist guerilla soldiers
Viet Cong
Leader of the Civil Rights Movement, gave the "I Have a Dream" speech
Martin Luther King, Jr.
American gangster who ran speakeasies during prohibition
Al Capone
The Great Depression started on this day, known as
Black Tuesday
Project to speed the creation of atomic bombs
Manhattan Project
Nixon's plan to withdraw troops from Vietnam
Vietnamization
Separation of whites and blacks during Jim Crow era
Segregation
-ism that promotes the rights of native-born people
Nativism
FDR's program to lift the US out of the Great Depression
The New Deal
The Selective Service System was in charge of doing this
The Draft
Mutual defense treaty between democratic countries during the Cold War
NATO
Eisenhower sent troops here to protect black students who were integrating into the high school
Little Rock, Arkansas
Increase in the number of people owning automobiles led to this.
Urban sprawl
WWI veterans who marched on Washington, DC seeking promised cash payments
Bonus Army
Gardens planted to supplement rations
Victory Gardens
Closest the US and USSR ever came to a nuclear conflict
Cuban Missile Crisis
His murder at the age of 14 sparked the Civil Rights movement.
Emmett Till