Post-WWI
Provided support to big business in the 1920s
Ended WWII in Japan, saving American lives
What was the atomic bomb?
North Vietnamese Communist leader 1945-1969
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
What are the groups most impacted by the Civil Rights movements?
What was the PATRIOT Act?
The people most impacted by the Dust Bowl
A period during which people were fearful of being accused as communist (especially federal employees)
What was The Red Scare?
Was the President during the Vietnam War who created the program called The Great Society
Who was Lyndon B. Johnson?
The President who believed in trickle-down economics
Who was Ronald Reagan?
Warren Harding promised this if he was elected President
The first place U.S. troops invaded during WWII
What is North Africa?
Was the President whose strategy to end the Cold War was to improve relations with China
Who was Richard Nixon?
A leader of the Civil Rights movement who encouraged nonviolent protest
Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
The President who appealed most to younger voters
Who was Bill Clinton?
Caused The Great Depression in 1929
What was the stock market crash?
The strategy put in place to attempt to stop communism from spreading
What was containment?
South Vietnamese leader, the first president until his assassination in 1963
Two significant legal cases having to do with Civil Rights
What are Brown v BoE & Plessy v Ferguson?
The U.S. has invested in these because of the environmental impact of fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas
What are alternative energy sources?
The New Deal over the radio
What was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's economic improvement plan and how was it shared?
The Berlin Airlift
What was the U.S. effort to fly supplies past the Soviet Blockade?
Evidence that the U.S. was not winning in Vietnam
What was the Tet Offensive?
November 22, 1963
What was the date of President John F. Kennedy's assassination?
Made President Carter less popular with the American public
What was the Iran hostage crisis?