Roaring Twenties
Spanish Flu, Government wartime spending ends, unemployment for soldiers who returned home and labor unrest
Demobilization
Known as "Black Tuesday"
Stock Market Crash
Cash and Carry, Neutrality Acts, Lend and Lease Act, and Four Freedoms Speech
a plan for aiding the European nations in economic recovery after World War II in order to stabilize and rebuild their countries and prevent the spread of communism.
Marshall Plan
In August 1963, civil rights leaders organized a massive rally in Washington to urge passage of President Kennedy's civil rights bill. The high point came when MLK Jr., gave his "I Have a Dream" speech to more than 200,000 marchers in front of the Lincoln Memorial
March on Washington
A peace treaty between Israel and Egypt where Egypt agreed to recognize the nation state of Israel
Camp David Accords
Scandal including arms sales to the Middle East in order to send money to help the Contras in Nicaragua even though Congress had objected
The Iran–Contra affair
the process by which businesses or other organizations develop international infuence or start operating on an international scale.
Globalization
Supreme Court decision holding that a state university could not admit less qualified individuals solely because of their race. Ended Racial Quotas Ended Racial Quotes
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Communism
Sacco & Venzetti
Palmer Raids
Red Scare
closed all banks until gov. examiners could investigate their fnancial condition; only sound/good banks were allowed to reopen
Bank Holiday
Hawaii
Attack
Japan
Pearl Harbor
US policy to keep communism where it is and stop it from spreading
Containment Policy
Civil Rights organization that used the federal courts to end segregation and promote civil rights Non Violent Protests
NAACP
The events and scandal surrounding a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in 1972 and the subsequent cover-up of White House involvement, leading to the eventual resignation of President Nixon under the threat of impeachment.
Watergate
A peace treaty between Israel and Egypt where Egypt agreed to recognize the nation state of Israel
Camp David Accords
Government entity that took over security at US airports after 9/11; all passengers and luggage were subjected to a thorough screening going forward.
Transportation Security Agency (TSA)
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that state courts are required under the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution to provide counsel (lawyer) in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford their own attorneys
Gideon v. Wainwright
Celebration of African American Culture through music, art and literature
Harlem Renaissance
New Deal program that hired young unemployed men to work on natural conservation projects
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Possible Traitors
Executive Order 9066
Korematsu vs US
Japanese Internment
1947, President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology, mainly helped Greece and Turkey Stability
Truman Doctrine
A group of African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School who were escorted by the National Guard to integrate the school.
Little Rock Nine
Congress gave the President powers to escalate the Vietnam War.
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
An agreement for free trade between the United States and Canada and Mexico
NAFTA
gave the federal government new eavesdropping powers to combat terrorism. Led to signifcant invasion of privacy for Americans and violation of their civil rights
US Patriot Act
Supreme Court held that criminal suspects must be informed of their right to consult with an attorney and of their right against self-incrimination prior to questioning by police
Miranda v. Arizona
Great Migration
Unemployment
Relief, Recovery, Reform
FDR
New Deal
Manhattan Project
Japan Surrenders
V-J Day
Hiroshima & Nagasaki Atomic Bombings
The confict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea. Ended with North and South Korea divided
Korean War
After two FAMU students were arrested for refusing to give up their seats on a segregated bus. Led to the desegregation of Pubic Transportation in Florida abortion
Tallahassee Boycott
LBJ's policies of fghting poverty and racial injustice
"Great Society"
supreme court declares Bush beats Gore, Gore won more popular vote, last state was Florida-had to do a recount, Democrats wanted recount, Supreme court voted 5-4 to stop counting declaring Bush the winner
The United States presidential election of 2000
This act abolished the National Origins system; increased annual admission to 170,000 and put a population cap of 20,000 on immigrants from any single nation.
Immigration Act of 1965
Supreme Court intervenes in battle between President Nixon and Congress (impeachment process). President cannot use executive privilege as an excuse to withhold evidence in impeachment process. Leads to Nixon's resignation
US v Nixon
Naval arms control to avoid an arms race.
Washington Naval Conference or 5 Power Treaty
Group of WWI vets. that marched to D.C. in 1932 to demand the immediate payment of their government war bonuses in cash
Bonus Army
Nazis
Genocide
International Tribunal
Nuremberg Trials
refers to the period of intense anti-communist suspicion in the United States during the early 1950s, named after Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Mcarthyism
1961 event organized by CORE and SNCC in which an interracial group of civil rights activists tested southern states' compliance to the Supreme Court ban of segregation on interstate buses MLK
Freedom Rides
Nixon's plan to gradually end the Vietnam War by reducing American Troops
Vietnamization
Popularly known as "Star Wars," President Reagan's SDI proposed the construc?tion of an elaborate computer-controlled, anti-missile defense system capable of destroying enemy missiles in outer spaced
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
The US Patriot Act led to the invasion of "_________" for Americans.
Privacy
legalized abortion on the basis of a woman's right to privacy
a massacre in a small town in Florida instigated by a rumor from a white woman
Rosewood Massacre
Stock markets crashed, unemployment rising, the dustbowl, overproduction of everything, layoffs, buying on credit, and bank failures
Causes of Great Depression
Civil Rights Leader
United Nations
Advisor to FDR
Mary McLeod Bethune
First artifcial Earth satellite, it was launched by the Soviets in 1957 and sparked U.S. fears of Soviet dominance in technology and outer space. It led to the creation of NASA and the space race.
Sputnik
The Native American civil rights group responsible for the occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1973 protect rights
AIM (American Indian Movement)
Led to the mistrust of government after Vietman
Pentagon Papers
Al-Qaeda terrorist led by Osama Bin Laden attacked the World Trade Center and Pentagon; led to the "Global War on Terror"
9/11
Most immigrants are coming from what region today
Latin America
The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated. Schools
Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas