1920s-1930s
Laiseez-Faire
This act was passed when the United States tried to honor George Washington's calling for not getting involved in European conflicts, but we still supplied Great Britain and Russia with weapons to fights the Nazis.
What is the Lend Lease Act of 1941?
The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan all fell under this foreign policy philosophy to limit the spread of communism.
What is containment?
This Asian conflict was a precursor to the eventual military conflict in Vietnam
What is the Korean War?
The court case Plessy v. Ferguson established this notion in the Supreme Court and the US....
This movement in the 1840s during the Second Great Awakening would eventually come back at the turn of the century to inspire the Prohibition Amendment.
Temperance Movement
Admiral Yamamoto knew the US was a "sleeping giant" that could easily beat the Japanese military he and his comrades would plan and attack this major US Naval base in the Pacific.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This committee, created by Senator Joseph McCarthy, was to weed out any communist sympathizers who were "hiding" within the US. Many were not even communist...
What is the House for Un-American Activities Committee?
What is a dove?
Poll Taxes, Literacy Tests, and Segregated restaurants, bathrooms and hotels were all legal under these laws.
What were Jim Crow Laws?
Name at least 2 causes of the Great Depression
1) Stock Speculation 2) Over-Use of Credit 3) Failure of the Banks 4) Loose government regulation on businesses.
A 1925 US Army study found these men to be unsuitable for combat, during WWII they would prove this stereotype wrong by being one of the more successful units in the skies over Germany.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
The Interstate Highway Act was signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1954 to help America's roads, while he was in Europe he was inspired by this German transportation system...
What is the autoban?
The information that Presidents LBJ and Nixon gave to the public about Vietnam were heavily inaccurate as described by the main stream media at the time which caused this gap between the government and the people...
What is the credibility gap?
Malcolm X, a prominent Civil Rights leader in the 1960s, wanted to achieve Black equality by...
What is "Any Means Necessary"?
When FDR was passing the New Deal policies, what were the 3 R's of his plan?
Relief
Reform
Recovery
President Truman was the ultimately the one who decided to drop the atomic bomb, but there was also a plan to topple the Japanese government by invading them with this so called operation.
What is Operation Downfall?
This piece of legislation, which is still being used today, provided veterans with lower interest loans for housing, paid college tuition and provided unemployment benefits for soldiers who couldn't find work...
What is the G.I. Bill?
This incident involving the USS Maddox would allow President LBJ to "Americanize" the war in Vietnam...
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?
These two acts were pushed by President JFK and LBJ as well as MLK peacefully protesting this act that would end up banning poll taxes and literacy tests in the south for American American to obtain their right to vote.
What are the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
What is a tariff?
Put these events in order: Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima , Midway, Pearl Harbor, D-Day.
Pearl Harbor ( Dec. 1941) / Midway (June 1942) / D-Day (June 1944) /
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima (Aug. 1945)
During the Cold War, the United States and the USSR competed in having their socioeconomic systems reign supreme in the world as well as showing their skills on the track, their rivalry would transcend into this major rivalry for the heavens...
What is the Space Race?
This genre of music fostered change not only through the Hippie Movement but also to the soldiers fighting in Vietnam as well. This music birthed long guitar solos and experimental ways of using music and drugs.
What is psychedelia?
This song sang by Sam Cooke, talked about a change in American society in 1963 with the emergence of the Civil Rights Movement.
What is "A Change Is Gonna Come"?