Great Depression
Nickname for the New Deal programs started by FDR
Alphabet Soup Programs
A world leader from which country who received appeasement before WWII
Adolf Hitler / Germany
Court decision that ruled school segregation unconstitutional
Brown v. Board of Education
U.S. President who declared a "War on Poverty"
LBJ (Lyndon B. Johnson)
John Howard Griffin's job before going undercover
journalist
FDR utilized the radio with his _______ to gain public support for his ________
Fireside Chats / New Deal Programs
Country that produced the first nuclear weapons
United States
Root cause of the Cold War - 2 opposing ideologies
Capitalism/democracy vs. communism
Aside from the secret bombings in Cambodia and no public support for the war in Vietnam, President Nixon was investigated & resigned because of this
Watergate Scandal
First city John Howard Griffin visits in Black Like Me
New Orleans, Louisiana
2 industries the 1920s U.S. economy based on
cars & construction
Event that caused U.S. to enter WWII
Pearl Harbor attack
Failed U.S.-backed takeover of mainland Cuba in April 1961
Bay of Pigs Invasion
U.S. President who oversaw the fall of the Berlin Wall
Ronald Reagan
When Griffin is hung in effigy on the street in Mansfield, he learns about the event from
a news reporter
Credited for pulling the United States out of the Great Depression (thing not person)
World War II
Short term cause of World War II
Hitler's invasion of Poland in 1939
Goal of the Truman Doctrine
contain the spread of communism
Example of Detente during the Cold War
Salt I Treaty
Salt II Treaty
Ping Pong Diplomacy with China
Type of citizen Griffin believes Negroes are treated as
10th class
What Americans did as a result of the bank panic after the stock market crash in 1929
Bank runs
F.A.T.I.G. & its relevance to WWII
Facism, Appeasement, Treaty of Versailles, Imperialism, Great Depression
Long term causes of WWII
Event that changed the U.S.'s homefront perception of the Vietnam War; turning point
Tet Offensive
U.S. President Jimmy Carter's famous conflict that was resolved on President Reagan's inauguration day in January 1981
Iran Hostage Crisis
Leader of the African-American Civil Rights movement according to John Howard Griffin
Martin Luther King Jr.