The Great Depression
Who held Fireside chats?
FDR
Who organized the bus Boycott?
Martin Luther King Jr.
¨I have a dream¨
Martin Luther King Jr.
If America's ideology was democracy what was the Soviet Union?
Communism
Who was the first person to fly over the Atlantic Ocean in 1927?
Charles Lindbergh
What was the average unemployment rate overall?
25%
What was the name of the high school the Little Rock 9 integrated?
Central high school
¨People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I am not a crook. I earned everything I´ve got.¨
Nixon
Name 2 countries that did not join the NATO or Warsaw Pact.
Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, Ireland, Austria and Yugoslavia
What does WASP stand for?
White Anglo Saxon Protestant
What was the name of shelters set up for people that had nowhere else to go?
Hoovervilles
What does NAACP stand for?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
¨Return To normalcy¨
Warren G. Harding
How much money was spent in total on the Marshall Plan?
$13 billion
What was Al Capone arrested for?
Tax invasion
What did the Wagner act say?
Labor has the right to unionize
What percent of 1500 eligible black voters were unregistered in Selma Alabama?
97%
¨Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.¨
Malcolm X
Name the two proxy wars American fought.
Korean and Vietnam
How many people did Mitchell Palmer deport from mass arrests?
556
What did some people think the Great Depression was ending?
Democracy or the American Dream
Name two of the three young men who were killed trying to help African Americans register to vote.
Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman
¨The atom bomb was no ´great decision´. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.¨
Harry S. Truman
How long was the Iron Curtain in place?
4 decades
Name 2 popular writers living in Paris that were part of the lost generation
F Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Gertrude Stein