Fun Vocabulary
This is when both Democrats and Republicans in congress agree on something.
Liberal Consensus
This practice of a person or family having a fixed amount of something happened during World War 1 & 2.
Rationing
This is a fancy word for spying.
Espionage
This person was the first African American supreme court justice.
Thurgood Marshall
This President was in charge of the country during 9/11 and the 2007 Financial Crisis.
George W. Bush
The beliefs of Mohandas Ghandi influenced this Christian pastor and civil rights icon.
Martin Luther King Jr.
What does OPEC stand for?
Oil Producing Exporting Countries
This is the act of purposely trying to undermine or "ruin" something.
Subversion
Under what premise did the U.S. invade The Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico and Cuba?
To help "liberate" those countries from Spain.
At this conference located in a city on the Black Sea, Joseph Stalin argued that the Soviet Union should continue to occupy Poland due to prevent a German attack.
The Yalta Conference
This person was put in charge of the FBI at the beginning of the 1920’s and ran the bureau until his death in the 1970’s.
J. Edgar Hoover
This President signed into law the U.S. military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy as well as the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in order to secure federal funding for research surrounding HIV/AIDS research.
Bill Clinton
This group was started by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in Oakland, Ca. This group conducted armed patrols to protect communities of color and instuted programs such as free breakfast for kids.
The Black Panthers
This is the word for high unemployment and high inflation at the same time as unchanging wages or a wage "freeze".
Stagflation
This movement starting in the 1950's and picked up more steam in the 1960's, was "antiestablishment" in nature and pushed back against the already established, traditional U.S. culture.
Counterculture
This resolution gave the President of the United States to take any action necessary in Vietnam.
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
This is the financial plan that accompanied Containment.
The Truman Doctrine
This CBS newsman was, at one point in time, the most trusted man in the United States.
Walter Cronkite
The President ushered in the "Conservative Revolution" in the 1980s as a stark response to the events of the 60s and 70s.
Ronald Reagan
The death of this person heavily influenced the Civil Rights movement and revealed the treatment of African Americans in the south to people across the United States.
Emmett Till
This is a term that describes the effect of the rapid rise of an asset's value that often exceeds its actual worth and then that value taking a sharp and sudden decline.
Bubble/Financial Bubble
This theory is how President Nixon negotiated the end of the Vietnam war. The strategy behind this theory is to come off as irrational in order to scare the other side from taking any further action.
Madmen Theory
What was established after the Korean War the is still in existence today?
The Demilitarized Zone
This is the theory that if one country falls to Communism then the countries surrounding it will also fall to Communism.
Domino Theory
This person was the first woman to own her own film studio and production company.
Lucille Ball
This California born President lost the election of 1960 to JFK but came back to win the election of 1968.
Richard Nixon
Who were the Freedom Riders?
An integrated group of 13 people who tested the new law about places of transit across state lines being desegregated by riding a bus from Washington D.C. to New Orleans, LA .
Why did OPEC put an oil embargo on the U.S.?
The U.S. supported Israel.
Detente
Why did the U.S. initially invade Kuwait after Saddam Hussein invaded? This is from yesterday's video!
To protect oil reserves.
Fears of spies within the U.S. government and military inspired this "witch hunt" that influenced other states and industries such as the film industry.
McCarthyism
These two people were involved with the Communist party and were sentenced to death for espionage without any solid evidence.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
This person was a general in the second world war and was President through the 1950s. His Campaign slogan was “I Like Ike”.
Dwight Eisenhower
These two women influenced Rosa Parks and the NAACP to challenge the segregated bus law in Montgomery, AL which in turn inspired the Montgomery bus boycott.
Claudette Colvin and Mary Louise Smith
What helped solve the issues surrounding The Great Recession?
The U.S. government bailing out U.S. industries.