Early 20th C
This decade brought prohibition and the Great Depression
What is the 1920s?
Before the US entered WWII, they were only concerned with their own affairs. The term for this is:
What is isolationist?
This age group became known as a distinct age group in the 50s.
What are teenagers?
The name for the 200+ social welfare programs started by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964.
What is the Great Society?
This 1963 speech calling for racial justice is often considered one of the best in US history
The Standard Oil Company is an example of this.
What is a monopoly?
This event triggers US involvement in WWII.
This was a proxy war from 1950-1953, with the US supporting one section of the country and the USSR supporting the other section of the country.
What is the Korean War?
Famous Muslim civil rights leader who criticized the mainstream civil rights movement
Who is Malcolm X?
True or false: President Nixon ended the Vietnam war immediately once he got into office.
What is false?
This gave white women suffrage
What is the Nineteenth Amendment (1920)?
This events ends WWII for all parties.
What is the Atomic Bomb?
What is The Second Red Scare/McCarthyism?
Although this group was labeled a terrorist group by the US government, they were focused on self-protection and helping their community
Who are the Black Panthers?
The great scientific and cultural advancement that occurred on July 20th, 1969.
What is the moon landing?
This act moved the US government away from the spoils system.
What is the Pendelton Act?
This global organization was founded in the wake of WWII.
What is the United Nations?
Many Americans (especially white, middle class Americans) moved to these places, which were not urban or rural.
What are the suburbs?
Name two other protest movements in the late 60s besides the Civil Rights Movement and the anti-Vietnam War movmenet.
What is the Gay Rights Movement, Hippies/Counterculture, Women's Liberation, Native American Protest, and Migrant Workers Movement?
If this man had not been assassinated in 1968, he likely would have been president instead of Richard Nixon.
Who is Robert Kennedy?
The term for writers who exposed social ills. For example, Upton Sinclair, who wrote The Jungle, was one of these
What is muckrakers?
This 1948 plan was signed by Truman to provide economic assistance to European countries devastated by the war.
What is the Marshall plan?
This form of media became very popular in the 50s, leading to a revolution in advertising
What is television?
This strategy targeted white voters with subtle racist appeals
What is Nixon's Southern Strategy?
Name one of two events in 1968 (in Vietnam) that increased American opposition to the war.
What is the Tet Offensive or what is the My Lai Massacre?