Name the US policy to contain communism and preventing it from spreading across the world during the Cold War.
What is Containment
100
Westward Expansion during the 1800s had a negative impact on what group of people?
Who are the Native Americans?
100
The assassination of this man was the spark that began World War I.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria?
100
These were the two superpowers during the Cold War.
What is the United States and The Soviet Union (Russia)
100
This Supreme Court Case decided that segregation of schools is inherently unequal. This Supreme Court decision made segregation in schools illegal and was one of the first major victories in the Civil Rights movement.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
200
A company that completely dominates a particular industry. Buys up competition or cuts prices to take out competition and then rises prices.
What is a monopoly
200
Causes of the Industrial Revolution in the United States (name 2)
1) availability of resources (from the West)
2) improved technology
3) improved transportation (trains and boats)
4) cheap labor with a new immigrant population
200
Causes of the Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression are (name 2)
What is
1) speculation (unwise investments)
2) buying on margin (buying stocks with loans)
3) bank failures and lack of regulation
4) failure to pay off installment plans
5) less spending leads to less jobs
200
During the 1960s and 1970s, what were many popular songs about?
Against War in Vietnam and racism in America
200
What is the NAACP
what does it STAND for and what were their goals?
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Their goals were to end segregation and win voting rights for African Americans in the US.
300
A strong feeling of pride and loyalty to one's nation and can often cause wars.
What is Nationalism?
300
This was the decade before the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and was characterized by wealth, partying, and jazz.
What is the Roaring 20s?
300
This country was a U.S. Ally during World War II, but became an enemy during the Cold War
What is The Soviet Union
300
This type of segregation means that segregation happens by custom, not by the law, and was often seen in the North where Jim Crow laws did not exist.
What is De Facto Segregation?
400
This movement describes women's struggle to earn voting rights.
What is Women's Suffrage
400
This was a period of social activism and reform that flourished from the 1890s to the 1920s. Achievements of the era include ending child labor, improving working conditions, and voting rights for women.
What is the Progressive Era?
400
A reason that justified the dropping of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan.
1) the use of the bomb shortened the war
2) more American lives would have been lost if the US invaded Japan by land
3) The Japanese were strong and proud fighters who would have fought till the death causing too many lost US lives
400
These are factors for the U.S. loss in Vietnam. (name 2)
What is the influence of the Media on Americans, lack of support by Americans, low morale and commitment of soldiers, tactics of the Viet Cong, and the unprecedented loss of lives.
400
Nations that separated the Communist East from the Democratic West in Europe during the Cold War were referred to as "The __________ ___________ "
What is The Iron Curtain
500
This term describes act of expanding a nation's influence and building an empire. Seen in the United States in examples such as the annexation of Hawaii and Teddy Roosevelt's Big Stick Diplomacy to gain influence in Latin America.
What is Imperialism
500
This amendment gives women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
500
This program was designed by Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression. Its goal was to provide aid to those suffering most, provide jobs for the unemployed and create reforms to stabilize the economic system and prevent future depressions.
What is The New Deal?
500
The goal of the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and the Berlin Airlift was...
What is Containment (spreading democracy and preventing communism)
500
This was a movement of interracial groups who rode across the South on public busses in 1961 to test the state of segregation and racism in the South following the Brown v. Board of Education ruling that segregation is unequal and thus unlawful.