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The spread of communism from one Southeast Asian nation to the other.
What is the domino theory?
The Supreme Court case that declared school segregation unconstitutional.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
Congressional communist witch hunt.
What is HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)?
African Americans pledged to defeat Nazism abroad and Jim Crow discrimination at home.
What is the Double V Campaign?
Soviet Union's military alliance with communist Eastern Europe.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This man is credited with inventing the assembly line, but actually he adapted the idea from slaughterhouses and helped create mass production of goods.
Who is Henry Ford?
The fear of communism spreading to the U.S.; this happened in the 1920s and the 1950s.
What is the Red Scare?
Leader of the Nation of Islam, he promoted the idea of black nationalism: separating from white society and the promotion of black-owned businesses.
Who is Malcolm X?
Money paid by a losing country to a winning country after a war. Germany paid it to England and France after World War I.
What are reparations?
According to this 1973 Supreme Court case, the Constitution guaranteed all women access to abortions. (Note: the Court overturned it in 2022.)
Someone who uses lies, false promises and scare tactics to gain importance. Father Charles Coughlin, Senator/Governor Huey Long, and Senator Joe McCarthy are examples.
What is a demagogue?
Woodrow Wilson's post WWI plans: open diplomacy, free trade, territorial integrity, arms reduction, and creating the League of Nations
What are the 14 Points?
Who is Andrew Johnson?
U.S. loaned billions of dollars to Europe to help it rebuild after World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The first openly gay man elected into public office, he was assassinated after only serving a year on the San Francisco city council by a disgruntled former council member.
Who is Harvey Milk?
Giving in to the demands of another country in order to maintain peace. Neville Chamberlain used this idea with Hitler before World War II.
What is appeasement?
This New Deal program paid farmers NOT to grow crops, thus limiting the supply, and keeping farm prices high.
What is the AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act)?
This definition means "making partial payments each month over a period of time until an item is paid off." It became a popular way of paying for an expensive item starting in the 1920s.
What is an "installment plan?"
During the 1920s, this law limited the number of European immigrants to the U.S to 150,000 per year and banned all Asian immigrants to the U.S.
What is the National Origins Quota Act?
The Wisconsin senator who fanned the flames of paranoia by claiming communists had infiltrated the US government.
Who is Joe McCarthy?
This Reconstruction-era scandal involved a fake railroad company that defrauded the government out of millions of dollars (and never built the railroad) and bribed politicians to look the other way.
What is the Credit Mobilier Scandal?
US recruited thousands of Mexican immigrants to move to the US for jobs during WWII.
What is the Bracero program?
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by this man, sparked World War I.
Who is Gavrilo Princip?
This New Deal program created an old-age pension, unemployment money and a payment program for widows, orphans and the disabled.
What is the Social Security Act?
The 1896 Supreme Court case that legalized "separate but equal" doctrine.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?