20s to the New Deal
Increased access to this utility allowed factories to produce more, and homes to buy, appliances like vacuums and refrigerators.
What is electricity?
This era, spanning from 1870 to 1900, was marked by rapid industrial growth, a massive wave of immigrants, and a new divide in wealth and opportunity
What is the Gilded Age?
This 1969 uprising at a New York City bar began after a police raid and is widely regarded as the spark that launched the modern LGBT rights movement.
What were the Stonewall Riots?
This was the primary U.S. foreign policy goal during the Cold War, defined as the strategic effort to prevent the global expansion of communism.
What is containment?
This type of marketing expanded rapidly, using psychology and slogans to convince people they needed new goods.
What is advertising?
Shantytowns built by the homeless were nicknamed this, after the current president.
What are Hoovervilles?
These individuals, often journalists, worked to expose corruption and criminal acts to the public to spark societal improvement.
Who are Muckrakers?
Inspired by nonviolent methods, this activist co-founded the National Farm Workers Association and led a nationwide grape boycott to secure better wages and working conditions for farm laborers.
Who is César Chávez?
This 1962 event, triggered by the discovery of Soviet nuclear missiles just 90 miles off the coast of Florida, is often cited as the closest the world came to global nuclear war.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This theory suggested that if communism was allowed to take over one country, it would inevitably spread to all of its neighbors.
What is the Domino Theory?
This severe environmental crisis in the Great Plains ruined many farmers.
What is the Dust Bowl?
During this 1911 disaster in New York City, 145 workers were killed in a textile factory because the exit doors were installed to open inward, trapping the victims inside.
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
This 1963 book by Betty Friedan challenged the idea that women should find complete fulfillment solely as housewives and is credited with launching the "second wave" of feminism.
What is The Feminine Mystique?
In response to a 1948 Soviet blockade, Western Allies successfully supplied a city deep within Soviet-controlled territory by carrying out over 200,000 supply flights over several months.
What was the Berlin Airlift?
This European nation held Vietnam as a colonial possession before being challenged by communist leader Ho Chi Minh.
What is France?
This was the major event that truly ended the Great Depression, not the New Deal.
What is WWII?
This 1906 publication by Upton Sinclair exposed the brutal realities of the meatpacking industry, including unsanitary conditions and workers being injured by knives or falling into lard vats.
What is The Jungle?
After being admitted to UC Berkeley in 1962, this paralyzed student became a leader in the Disability Rights Movement, eventually influencing the passage of the 1968 Architectural Barriers Act.
Who is Ed Roberts?
According to records, the Vietnam War cost the United States approximately $150 billion and resulted in this many American deaths.
What is 58,000?
Enacted in 1948, this plan provided over $12 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European countries and prevent the spread of communism through economic revitalization.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This was the highest tariff in U.S. history, passed in 1930, which slowed international trade.
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
Supported by "Red Progressive" leaders, this 1924 law granted full citizenship rights to all Native Americans.
What is the Snyder Act?
Citing an 1868 treaty regarding surplus government land, Sioux activists began an 18-month-long occupation of this former federal prison site in 1964 to protest the lack of rights for Native people.
What is Alcatraz Island?
Many veterans returned from the war suffering from this psychological condition, which caused nightmares, anxiety, and difficulty readjusting to daily life.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
Though often criticized for inaction, Herbert Hoover attempted to stabilize the economy in 1932 by creating this federal agency to provide government-secured loans to banks, railroads, and insurance companies, hoping the wealth would "trickle down" to the rest of the population.
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)?