WWI, Roaring 20s, Great Depression
The position or stance of the US at the start of WWI.
What is neutrality?
The name for Germany, Italy, and Japan during the war.
Person who refused to give up a seat on the bus, sparking the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Rosa Parks?
The theory that if one country converts to communism, neighboring countries will follow and convert to communism as well.
What is the Domino Theory?
June 28, 1969:
Riots at this Greenwich Village bar mark the beginning of the gay rights movement.
The ideology that opposed change in the 1920s based on religious beliefs.
What is fundamentalism?
The "date that will live in infamy".
What is December 7th, 1941?
The year long social protest of the public transit system in order to fight racial segregation in Alabama.
What is the Montgomery bus boycott?
Confrontation between the US and USSR over ballistic missiles in Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
When Gilbert Baker designed the rainbow flag for gay pride in 1978, he added the "hot" version of this color to the traditional 7 colors.
What is pink?
The name of the date that marks the start of the Great Depression.
What is "Black Tuesday"?
James and Jeanne Houston's memoir written about Japanese internment.
What is "Farewell to Manzanar"?
Speech given by Martin Luther King Jr. during the 'March on Washington'.
What is the 'I have a dream speech'?
Stopping the spread of Communism, but not eliminating it from already communist countries.
What is Containment?
In 2010 Congress passed a law ending the ban on openly gay soldiers serving in the military, repealing this 4-word policy.
What is "Don't Ask, Don't Tell?"
Leading into the Great Depression was the great stock market crash in October of this year.
What is 1929?
A diplomatic policy of making political, material, or territorial concessions to an aggressive power in order to avoid conflict
What is appeasement?
Supreme Court case that desegregated schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
A person who illegally avoids joining the armed forces.
Who are draft dodgers?
Long Island's Congregation Sons of Israel is where this future gay activist & San Franciscan was bar mitzvahed in 1943
Who is Harvey Milk?
A New Deal program designed to supply jobs for young men and to relieve families who had difficulty finding jobs.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
Mass murder and rape of Chinese civilians by Japanese soldiers during WWII.
What is the Rape of Nanking (Nanjing)?
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
Phrase coined by Winston Churchill labeling the divide between East and Western Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
Millions lined the streets of New York for the June 2019 LGBTQ parade that was part of "World" this
What is Pride?