Unit 6 - World War II
Unit 7 - 1950's at Home and Abroad
Unit 8 - JFK, LBJ, and Vietnam
Unit 9 - Civil Rights and Counter Culture
Unit 10 - A Changing Society
100
Camps focused on keeping America safe by infringing on the rights of minorities.
What are internment camps?
100
This increase in population occurred after World War II.
What is the baby boom?
100
The race between the Soviet Union and the US, competing in technological advances.
What is the space race?
100
African-American civil rights leader who frowned upon peaceful protest.
Who is Malcom X?
100
Easing of relations between the US and the Soviet Union.
What is Detente?
200
This US project created the atomic bomb, effectively ending World War II.
What is Manhattan Project?
200
Gave American aid to rebuild European Nations after World War II?
What is the Marshall Plan?
200
A prime example of US brinkmanship, where we almost invaded Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
200
Businesses intentionally hiring minorities to quiet racism accusations.
What is Affirmative Action?
200
Allowed Congress to give federal tax revenue to states.
What is revenue sharing?
300
President Roosevelt's successful attempt to persuade Congress to eliminate the ban on arms sold to nations at war.
What is the Neutrality Act?
300
Goal: aid "free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures."
What is the Truman Doctrine?
300
The president that started "an unconditional War on Poverty".
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
300
Neighborhood near Niagara Falls contaminated with nuclear waste.
What is Love Canal?
300
Scandal that lead to the impeachment of Richard Nixon.
What is Watergate?
400
This act allowed America to lease arms to any country that seemed vital to the defense of the US.
What is the Land-Lease Act?
400
This program screened all federal employees.
What is Loyalty Review Boards?
400
A legal requirement that prevents state's from infringing on citizen's rights.
What is Due Process?
400
A student protest occurring at UC Berkeley.
What is the Free Speech Movement?
400
A treaty signed between Israel and Egypt in 1979, ending 30 years of conflict.
What is the Camp David Accords?
500
This speech by FDR expressed American support for freedom of speech, worship, want, and fear.
What is the Four Freedoms Speech?
500
Brought nearly 5 million Mexicans to the United States to work on farms and ranches in the Southwest.
What is the Bracero program?
500
Proof that the Johnson Administration lied to the American people.
What are the Pentagon Papers?
500
Court case that tied state regulation of abortion to the trimester of pregnancy.
What is Roe v. Wade?
500
Act, signed in 1975, that significantly reduced Cold War tensions between the Communist-bloc and the West.
What is the Helsinki Accords?
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