World Wars
Which country did the US fight against in both WWI and WWII?
Germany
Under this economic system there is no class and everyone is equal
FDR passed this collection of laws to help pull the US out of the Great Depression
The New Deal
This civil rights leader advocated for Black power, opposed non-violence, and was assassinated in 1965
Malcolm X
Name the three dictators we fought in WWII
Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito
This cause of WWI was when European powers seized control of countries in Africa and Asia, extracting their resources and wealth.
He was a Wisconsin senator who accused people working in the State Department of communism without any evidence.
Joseph McCarthy
The Woman's March on Washington in 1913 fought for what?
Women's suffrage
This tactic involves breaking laws to protest how unjust they are (hint: used by MLK)
Civil disobedience.
The movement of six million African Americans from the South to the North and West to escape Jim Crow Segregation
The Great Migration
This agreement ended WWI, blamed and punished Germany for the war, and lead to WWII.
The Treaty of Versailles
Who was exempted from the Vietnam draft?
College students, fathers and husbands, people with medical conditions
This amendment banned the sale of alcohol
This organization was lead by students who organized non-violent protests against segregation like sit-ins and the Freedom Ride. They increasingly turned towards Black Power in the later 1960s.
SNCC
A list of terms issued by President Wilson to end WW1 and prevent future wars.
What is Wilson's 14 points?
Communication of information to spread certain ideas, beliefs, or practices and shape or influence public opinion used during WWI and WWII.
What is propaganda?
People watching the news saw that the war in Vietnam was not going as well as politicians said it was. What did this create?
Credibility Gap
Series of evening radio addresses given by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, between 1933 and 1944.
What are fireside chats?
This 1896 Supreme Court case legalized segregation provided it was "separate but equal"
Plessy v. Ferguson
This man shot John F. Kennedy in Dallas in 1963
Cities in Japan that were affected by atomic bomb at the end of WWII.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This Cold War crisis is an example of brinksmanship and the closest the US came to nuclear war with the USSR led by President Kennedy.
The Cuban Missile Crisis
This law was designed to reduce the number of immigrants from Southern Europe and the Pale of Settlement (where Jews in Eastern Europe lived)
1924 Quota Act
This 1954 Supreme Court decision made segregation in schools illegal throughout the United States.
What is Brown v the Board of Education?
During WWII you needed what to purchase gas, sugar, butter, or silk?
A ration booklet