Roaring 20's
This nickname describes the decade of economic prosperity, jazz music, and changing social norms during the 1920s.
Roaring Twenties
The name of shacks where people who lost their homes lived
Hoovervilles
What was the final solution?
The plan for Hitler to exterminate undesirables and create the perfect Aryan race
This Cold War policy aimed to stop the spread of communism to new countries.
containment
This U.S. president resigned from office in 1974 as a result of the Watergate scandal.
Richard Nixon
During the 1920s, many Americans purchased goods using this system, allowing them to pay over time rather than all at once.
buying on credit/installment plans
List one example of a cause of the Great Depression
unemployment, bank failures, underconsumption, unequal distribution of wealth, buying on credit
This lead to the US joining the war
Pearl Harbor
This line continues to divide North Korea and South Korea after the Korean War armistice.
38th parallel
NATO and the Warsaw Pact were military alliances representing these two opposing sides during the Cold War.
The United States and its allies versus the Soviet Union and its allies?
This cultural movement of the 1920s celebrated African American art, literature, and music, centered in a New York City neighborhood.
Harlem Renaissance
How did the dust bowl affect people in the west?
They were not able to farm
people got pneumonia
people had to move
Under this act, the US was able to sell or lease war materials to any country whose defense was vital to defending the US
Lend Lease Act
These were both ways to help with stopping the spread of communism
1. In 1947, President Truman promised aid to countries resisting this political system.
2.This U.S. program provided billions of dollars to help rebuild Europe
Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan
Space RaceIn 1957, the Soviet Union launched this first artificial satellite into orbit, beginning the Space Race.
Sputnik
Under Harding, Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall accepted bribes in exchange for leasing government owned oil reserves
Teapot Dome Scandal
What was the Bonus Army?
When veterans went to Washington to get their war bonus. They were denied and their encampments were burned down.
What was the Manhattan Project?
The project to create the atomic bomb which would be used on Japan
This term refers to the practice of making accusations of communist involvement without sufficient evidence during the 1950s.
McCarthyism
This 1962 confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union brought the world closest to nuclear war
Cuban Missile Crisis
What did the 18th and 21st amendment do?
18th prohibition
21 repealed 18th amendment
Provide 3 examples of relief that FDR provided
PWA and WPA provided jobs
CCC conservation
AAA paying farmers not to produce crops
social security Act
What was executive order 9066?
it established internment camps for Japanese Americans.
This was a peace agreement between the Middle Eastern countries Egypt and Israel, brokered by President Jimmy Carter.
Camp David Accords
The purpose of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) was to reduce or limit the number of these weapons possessed by the United States and Soviet Union.
nuclear