World War II
Germany, Italy, and Japan were known as the....
Axis Powers
A proxy ideological war between the U.S. and the USSR
What was the Cold War?
Movement to achieve equality, regardless of skin color/race
What was the Civil Rights Movement?
FDR's plan to rebuild the economy during the Depression.
What is the New Deal?
Poor farming practices and drought caused massive dust storm across the Great Plains of the U.S. leading to famine and migration
What is the Dust Bowl?
Original stance of US before WWI and what it changes to after the bombing of Pearl Harbor
What is isolationism -> interventionism?
The Korean and Vietnam Wars fought over
What is communism/containment?
Created to defend against racial violence, later expanded to community programs
What is the Black Panther Party?
3 goals of the New Deal
What were relief, recovery and reform?
The imaginary line dividing communist and democratic Europe
What is the Iron Curtain?
The plan to get close enough to Japan to begin bombing it.
What is Island Hopping?
This crisis nearly led to nuclear war in 1962
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This was the result of Rosa Parks getting arrested
What is the Montgomery Bus boycott?
A series of radio talks where FDR explained the New Deal programs to the American people
What were the Fireside Chats?
The first satellite launched into space by the Soviets.
What was Sputnik?
Executive Order 9066 established this
What are Japanese Internment Camps?
Effort to reach space / the moon first
What is the Space Race?
The Supreme Court Case that ended segregation in public schools.
What is Brown v. Board?
A group of cardboard houses set up in a public park or street alley during the Great Depression
What are Hoovervilles?
Court case over the teaching of evolution in public schools
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
The date that Pearl Harbor was attacked.
What is December 7, 1941?
McCarthyism / The Red Scare
What is a witch hunt for communism, fear of communism, blacklisting people?
sit-ins, boycotts, protests, marches (on Washington), etc.
New Deal program that guarantees your money is safe in the bank. If the bank fails they will cover your lost money up to $100,000.
What is the FDIC?
During the Vietnam War the National Guard opened fire on protestors here
What was is Kent State?