Culture
Flourishing of African American culture, art, and music in the 1920s and 1930s.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
Fear that if South Vietnam fell to communism, other east Asian countries would follow.
What is the domino theory?
Right of the president or other high-ranking executive officers to keep information confidential for national security.
What is executive privilege?
Civil Rights leader who advocated non-violence and civil disobedience.
Who was (Martin Luther) King (Jr) or MLK?
A large surge in the birth rate that occurred after soldiers returned from WWII.
What is the baby boom?
Refers to the difference in beliefs, values, and outlooks between different age groups.
What is the generation gap?
Woodrow Wilson's framework for world peace after WWI that included the creation of a League of Nations.
What was the Fourteen Points?
Never ratified, it would have given women all the same rights as men in the Constitution.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment?
Theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Lab.
Who was (J. Robert) Oppenheimer?
Policy to stop the spread of communism by leaving it where it is.
What is containment?
A conservative Protestant who emphasizes the literal truth and inerrancy of the Bible, rejecting modern theological interpretations and affirming core doctrine.
Who is a Christian Fundamentalist?
Massive effort by western nations to feed and supply a city they'd been cut off from by the communists.
What was the Berlin Airlift?
Authorized the US to sell, lease, or lend war materials to any country the president deemed vital to the defense of the US.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
Arkansas governor who fought against desegregation and ordered the National Guard to prevent nine Black students from attending Little Rock High School.
Who was (Orval) Faubus?
Total control over an industry.
What is a monopoly?
A counterculture movement that rejected mainstream materialism for nonconformity, spiritual exploration, jazz, poetry, and a bohemian lifestyle.
What was Beatnik?
Forcible transfer by the imperial Japanese Army of Filipino and American POWs.
What was the Bataan Death March?
Proposed giving aid to countries of war-torn Europe to help them rebuild their economies.
What was the Marshall Plan?
Author of The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed this industry.
What was meatpacking?
Lightning war.
What is blitzkrieg?
Area in Manhattan (NYC) that became the heart of the American music publishing industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
What is Tin Pan Alley?
British and French leaders agreed to hand over the western part of Czechoslovakia to Germany.
What was the Munich Pact?
US government policy to end federal recognition and support to Native American tribes.
What was (the) termination (policy)?
Author of the "Cross of Gold" speech.
Who was (William Jennings) Bryan?
The two types of segregation: one by law, the other in practice.
What are de jure and de facto (in either order)?