World War II and aftermath
This federal policy gained momentum because of Americans' fears of Japanese Americans and the possibility of espionage following the bombing of Pearl Harbor by Imperial Japanese Kamikaze Pilots.
Hint: Reparations were paid after the passing of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988.
What is Japanese Internment?
The uncovering of communists and communists sympathizers was headed by this senator from Wisconsin.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
As a result of birth rates increasing during and following WWII, this group was the first to grow up in the suburbs, to eat a Big Mac, and the first to have Rock n' Roll become the voice of their generation.
Who are the Baby Boomers?
On December 1st, 1955, this woman refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man and was jailed for not complying to the city's racial segregation laws.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Bonus: Other than segregation, what else was Parks protesting when she did this?
She was the first woman appointed to the US Supreme Court in 1981.
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
Bonus: Who was only the second-ever African American appointed to the Supreme Court only 10 years later?
In February 1945, Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin (the "Big Three") met to discuss further involvement in WWII fronts. This meeting is called this.
What is the Yalta Conference?
A failed attack launched by the CIA during the Kennedy administration in April of 1961 to push Cuban leader Fidel Castro from power.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
In the 1950s, these poets, writers, musicians, and other artists denounced American materialism and by the 1960s, had gained wide acceptance among young people and formed the backbone of what would become the counterculture movement.
Who are the Beats/Beatniks?
Bonus: Name some of the most well-known Beatniks
This group followed the leadership of Malcom X in that it believed that necessary violence was the only way they would be granted equal rights under the US Constitution and state and local laws.
Who are the Black Panthers?
This event caused widespread distrust in the federal government after recordings were released proving that a cover-up had taken place in an effort to secure the re-election of the president.
What is the Watergate Scandal?
This man headed the top-priority program that was tasked with the construction of the atomic bomb, which would become the first of America's nuclear arsenal.
Much of the 1950s is characterized as this.
Hint: Fall in line.
What is mass-conformity?
One of the main agendas of the youth and counter culture of the 1960s was to protest this.
What is the US involvement in Vietnam/The Vietnam War?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech was given to a massive crowd at this event as a response to the extreme violence against African Americans that had occurred in Birmingham only a few months prior.
What is the March on Washington?
This crisis gave conservatives and the Christian-right ammunition against the LGBTQ community in that they began to spread the theory that it was a punishment for the "sin of being a homosexual"
What is the AIDS crisis?
Identified by the clothing they would wear, many Mexican-American youth, also known as Pachucos, faced violent backlash at the hands of returning servicemen during and after WWII. This violence is referred to as this.
What are the Zoot Suit Riots?
The open yet restricted conflict that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies.
What is the Cold War?
This incident, which occurred on June 28, 1969, became the basis for Pride parades throughout the country, and eventually the world, as they originated as a way to commemorate the incident on its anniversary year after year.
What is the Stonewall Inn Riot?
In November of 1969, Richard Oakes and other frustrated Native Americans occupied this piece of land, proclaiming that they had reclaimed it by right of discovery for $24 in "glass beads and red cloth."
What is Alcatraz Island?
With the events in Birmingham in the early 1960s being the first time blatant police brutality against African Americans was nationally televised, this event in the 1990s resulted in a mass riot throughout Los Angeles and Los Angeles County.
What was the Rodney King incident and trial?
Following WWII, the GI Bill and other government subsidized programs caused a rapid swell of single-family homes to be built outside of urban city centers. This process also helped to further divide social and economic classes and cultures.
What is suburbanization?
The Cold War turned red hot with the outbreak of this in 1950.
Hint: General Douglas MacArthur was fired because his views about this clashed with President Truman's.
What is the Korean War?
In 1960, University of Michigan students founded Students for a Democratic Society, which set forth its ideology in this founding text.
What is the Port Huron Statement?
Many date the beginnings of the Women's Liberation Movement to 1963 with the publication of this book by Betty Freidan, who was also the co-founder of NOW.
What is the Feminine Mystique?
Bonus: What does NOW stand for?
Changes in communications spearheaded the emergence of the global economy in the 1990s. The most dramatic development was the widespread use of this.
What is the Internet?