Boom & Bust: 20s and 30s
This new technology of the 1920s led to people listening to more music and entertainment at home.
radio
This senator accused hundreds of people in the State Department of being communist, starting mass hysteria in the Cold War
Joseph McCarthy
The two candidates in the presidential election of 1960
JFK and Nixon
Martin Luther King, Jr.
the simultaneous onset of inflation and economic stagnation in the 1970s was known as:
stagflation
This was a 1920s cultural, social, and artistic movement centered in Harlem, New York City. It was fueled by the Great Migration and gave rise to the "New Negro"—a concept that encouraged outspoken advocacy of dignity, racial pride, and the refusal to submit to Jim Crow segregation
Harlem Renaissance
the Marshall Plan
This document, passed by Congress in 1964 after a naval incident, authorized the Vietnam War and was known as the "blank check" or "Grandma's nightshirt"
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Originally proposed by JFK after the Birmingham protests and March on Washington, he died before it was passed by Congress. LBJ and Congress passed it in JFK's honor
Civil Rights Act of 1965
The Camp David Accords in 1978—named for this president’s rural Maryland retreat, where thirteen days of secret negotiations were held—represented the first time an Arab state had recognized Israel, and the first time Israel promised Palestine self-government. It was a foreign policy victory for this president.
Jimmy Carter
Fear of foreign radicals in a time of nativism led to the executions of these two men, two Italian anarchists working in Braintree near Auntie Laney's house, in 1927.
Sacco and Vanzetti
Executive Order 9066 authorized the forced relocation and incarceration of over 120,000 _______________ people during WWII, including citizens, driven by war hysteria and racial prejudice
Japanese Americans
This was the turning point in 1968 when public opinion turned against the US involvement in Vietnam. It was a military victory, but a public relations disaster.
Tet Offensive
He preferred non-violence if possible, but said it was the "ballot or the bullet" if necessary.
Malcolm X
This economic policy of Pres. Ronald Reagan's is rooted in the idea that tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations would stimulate investment, boost production, and ultimately benefit all levels of society.
trickle down, supply side, or Reaganomics
This was the name of FDR's series of programs for addressing the Great Depression
New Deal
After WWII, the American policy towards communism was called ____________ and led to limited war, for example in Korea.
containment
Lyndon Johnson's (LBJ) domestic program to address poverty, improve access to education and healthcare, etc. was known as
The Great Society
These were other groups who were inspired by African American activism and who launched their own civil rights movements.
American Indian Movement, Red Power Movement, Women's Rights Movement for the Equal Rights Amendment and abortion rights, Gay Rights Movement (after Stonewall)
This agreement represented a defining shift in 1990s globalization. Signed by President Bill Clinton, the treaty eliminated trade barriers between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada
NAFTA
This was one of the major criticisms of Franklin D. Roosevelt's handling of the Great Depression
2. it expanded executive (presidential) power
3. it didn't do enough to help those in poverty
The suburban landscape in the 1950s was characterized by lots of new home building to accommodate returning soldiers and new families during the baby boom. This man became famous for his housing developments of the era.
Bill Levitt
A harrowing thirteen-day confrontation in October 1962 when the United States and the Soviet Union hovered on the brink of nuclear war
Cuban Missile Crisis
This was a revolutionary, socialist, and Black nationalist organization founded in 1966 in Oakland, California, by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale to protect Black neighborhoods from police brutality
Black Panther Party
This was the name of Richard Nixon's strategy to gradually withdraw U.S. troops from Vietnam while equipping and training South Vietnamese forces to fight their own ground war. The policy aimed to achieve "peace with honor" but resulted in years of continued fighting and eventual communist victory
Vietnamization