A series of laws enacted by Congress in the mid-1930s that attempted to prevent any American involvement in future overseas wars
Neutrality Acts
100
Devastating new weapon used by the US against Japan in August 1945
Atomic Bomb
100
New international organization that experienced some early successes in diplomatic and cultural areas but failed in areas like atomic arms control
United Nations
100
Supreme Court ruling that overturned the old Plessy v Ferguson principle that black public facilities could be separate but equal
Brown v Board of Education
100
LBJ's broad program of welfare legislation and social reform that swept through Congress in 1965
Great Society
200
Roosevelt's 1937 speech that proposed strong US measures against overseas aggressors
Quarantine Speech
200
US minority that was forced into concentration camps during World War II
Japanese Americans
200
Popular name for the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, whcih provided assistance to former soldiers
GI Bill
200
A Soviet scientific achievement that set off a wave of American concern about Soviet superiority in science and education
Sputnik
200
Racial slogan that signaled a growing challenge to King's non-violent civil rights movement by militant younger blacks
Black Power
300
Term for the British-French policy of attempting to prevent war by granting German demands
Appeasement
300
A federal agency that coordinated US industry and successfully mobilized the economy to produce vast quantities of military supplies
War Production Board
300
Shorthand name for the southern and western regions of the US that experienced the highest rates of growth after World War II
The Sunbelt
300
Term for making ruthless and unfair charges against opponents, such as those leveled by a red-hunting Wisconsin senator in the 1950s
McCarthyism
300
The 1964 Congressional Action that became a "blank check" for the Vietnam War
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
400
International economic meeting on stabilizing currency that was sabotaged by FDR
London Conference
400
Symbolic personification of female laborers who took factory jobs in order to sustain US production during World War II
"Rosie the Riveter"
400
New York suburb where postwar builders pioneered the techniques of mass home construction
Levittown
400
Latin American nation where a 1959 communist revolution ousted a US-backed dictator
Cuba
400
Site where anti-Castro forces failed in their US-sponsored invasion
Bay of Pigs
500
Controversial 1941 law that made America the "arsenal of democracy" by providing supposedly temporary military material assistance to Britain.
Lend-Lease
500
Controversial US-British demand on Germany and Japan that substituted for a "second front"
Unconditional Surrender
500
Key US government memorandum that militarized American foreign policy and indicated national faith in the economy's capacity to sustain large military expenditures
NSC-68
500
Betty Friedan's 1963 book that launched a revolution against the suburban "cult of domesticity" that reigned in the 1950s
Feminine Mystique
500
The Vietnamese New Year celebration, during which the communists launched a heavy offensive against the US in 1968