Leaders
This leader wrote the Fourteen Points
Woodrow Wilson
Turning point of the war in the Pacific
The Battle Of Midway
What was the U.S. economic system?
Capitalism
14th granted ____ to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including former slaves—and guaranteed all citizens “_______________.”
citizenship, equal protection of the laws
Led the March on Washington, Gave the "I Have A Dream" speech, and wrote the "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
Martin Luther King, Jr.
President during the Great Depression and died in office
Franklin Delanor Roosevelt
This Cold War conflict started after Saigon fell and Ho Chi Min came to power.
Vietnam War
13th abolished _____ and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime
slavery
By the late 1960s, not only the NAACP and SCLC but even SNCC and CORE faced challenges from new militant organizations that included the __________ whose leaders dismissed nonviolent principles, often quoting Malcolm X’s imperative: “by any means necessary.”
Black Panther Party
Leader of Fascist Italy during WWII
Benito Mousillini
Reason for U.S. involvement in the war
The bombing of Pearl Harbor
This conflict started after the 38th Parallel was made and North Korea invades South Korea
Korean War
15th prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a male citizen _________ based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".
the right to vote
American civil rights legislation of the 1960s became the basis for__________. Programs that increased opportunities for many Black students and workers as well as for women, disabled people, and other victims of discrimination.
Affirmative Action
Pushed for the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NATO) which removed trade barriers between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
Bill Clinton
Put into internment camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor
Japanese Americans
People in the U.S. during the Cold War were afraid of the threat of ____ War
Nuclear
Allows a federal income tax
16th Amendment
What was the goal of African American and white volunteers during the Freedom Summer?
To register African American voters in the South.
President that sent the first man to the moon in 1969 and was assassinated in Dallas, TX.
John F. Kennedy
June 6, 1944
D-Day, the beginning of the Allied liberation of France
Started after an American U2 Spy Plane was shot down by Soviet missiles in Cuba
Cuban Missile Crisis
Repealed the 18th Amendment
21st Amendment
Place where racism was the highest, Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested here, where the 16th Street Baptist Church was bombed.
Birmingham, Alabama