period 6
term applied to america in the late 1800s that refers to the shallow display and worship of wealth characteristic of the period
Gilded age
What were three causes of the Spanish-American War?
US ship stationed in Cuba mysteriously blew up.
De Lome letter written by a spanish minister trash talked mcKinley and yellow journalism.
America public demanded war.
Who wrote The Feminine Mystique
Betty Friedman
Caused by a decrease in oil supplies and embargos by OPEC
energy crisis
North Vietnam capital
Hanoi
federal legislation that suspended chinese immigration, limited the civil rights of resident chinese, and forbade their naturalization
Chinese Exclusion Act
What did the US gain as a result of the Spanish-American War?
Guam,Cuba ,Puerto Rico, and the Philippines
Who created the idea of "The Great Soiety"
Lyndon B Johnson
A stagnant economy due to rising inflation but same minimum wage
Stagflation
South Vietnam Capital
Saigon
an often popular idea that somehow immigrants from other countries should quickly lose their future and language and 'melt' into being just like other americans
Melting pot
Race riots in many northern cities Chicago
the Red Summer
Name the two opposing alliances in the cold war
NATO, Warsaw pact
What marked the end of the cold war
Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989
Which side did USSR support with communism
north
small, poorly ventilated shops or apartments crammed with workers, often family members, who pieced together garments
Sweatshops
A celebration of African American culture through writing , music,and art.
The Harlem Renisaunce
Act that Abolished discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, or origin in the US Military.
Executive Order 9981
President who stressed human rights. Because of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, he enacted an embargo on grain shipments to USSR and boycotted the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.
Jimmy Carter
Pro communist Vietnam fighters
Vent-Cong
usually known as the populist party, a major third party of the 1890s formed to fight for the rights of working people
peoples party
What groups did the KKK target?
Immigrants Jews and catholics and african Americans.
Why did Eisenhower send troops to Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957?
to protect the Little Rock 9 as they attended a non segregated high school for the first time
Terrorist network started in 1989 by Osama Bin Laden
Al Queda
Which side was allied with America
South