Jazz Age
What decade is considered the Jazz Age?
the 1920s
What decade was the Great Depression.
1930s
What decade did WW2 take place?
1940s
What two countries were opposed to each other during the Cold War?
The U.S. and the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.)
During what decade did most of the events of the civil rights movement take place?
the 1960s
What was the New York City neighborhood that was the center of African-American Culture in the 1920's?
Harlem
What happened in 1929 that started the Great Depression?
The stock market crash
Which country attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and what was the date?
Japan attacked on 12/7/41.
What is the name of the theory that if one country falls to communism, then all the other countries in the region will fall too?
The Domino Theory.
"The arrest of ____________ started a major civil rights event. It was called the _______________ Bus ________ and it was led by _______________."
Rosa Parks
Montgomery Bus Boycott
MLK
Name one famous jazz musician of the Harlem Renaissance.
Louis Armstrong
Bessie Smith
Duke Ellington
Who was President for most of the Great Depression?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
How did WW2 finally end in Europe? and in the Pacific?
Europe: The Allies captured Berlin & Hitler shot himself.
Japan: America dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima & Nagasaki.
Name three conflicts that that the U.S. was involved in during the Cold War and the decade each one took place.
The Korean War (1950s)
The Cuban Missile Crisis (1960s)
The Vietnam War (1960s)
Which Supreme Court case overturned the "separate but equal" decision of Plessy v. Ferguson?
Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas,
Who was the African-American painter who chronicled the "Great Migration" through art?
Jacob Lawrence
During the Great Depression, Roosevelt's enacted many different programs to try and ease the suffering of the American People. All together, these programs are referred to as what?
The New Deal.
List similarities between the Holocaust and the internment of Japanese-Americans.
Similarities: loss of civil rights, imprisonment, isolation, relocation
List at least two ways Americans demonstrated their opposition to the Vietnam War.
Protests, sit-ins, social unrest, dodging the draft.
List three different types of protests that were used during the civil rights movement.
Marches, sit-ins, boycotts, Freedom Rides, speeches.
Who was the poet who combined the experiences of African and American cultural roots?
Langston Hughes
Give one reason why the stock market crashed in 1929?
Over speculation
Buying stocks with money barrow on "margin".
Please list in order the three stages of U.S. foreign policy leading up to WW2
1. Isolationism
2. Economic Aid to Allies
3. Direct involvement
What was the dividing line between North and South Korea at the beginning and the end of the Korean War?
The 38th Parallel.
Who was the first African-American Supreme Court Justice?
Thurgood Marshall.