Economic Theories
Supported deficit spending to fight the Great Depression
What is Keynesian Economics?
Attack that brought the U.S. into WWII
What is Pearl Harbor?
FDR’s program to recover from the Great Depression
What is the New Deal?
Author of The Communist Manifesto
Who is Karl Marx?
1896 case that legalized segregation
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Free-market economist who opposed government planning
Who is Frederick Hayek?
Project that developed the atomic bomb
What is the Manhattan Project?
1935 law that created pensions and unemployment insurance
What is the Social Security Act?
Communist dictator of the Soviet Union
Who is Stalin?
1954 case that declared school segregation illegal
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Ideology based on class struggle and public ownership
What is Communism?
Days marking end of WWII in Europe and Japan
What is VE Day and VJ Day?
Allowed U.S. to send aid to Allies before entering WWII
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
Communist dictator of China
Who is Mao Zedong?
Suburb built after WWII, often excluded Black families
What is Levittown?
Ideology based on private property and free markets
What is Capitalism?
President who led the U.S. through most of WWII
Who is FDR?
Provided benefits like education and housing to veterans
What is the GI Bill?
Fascist Dictator of Germany
Who is Hitler?
Movement of white people to the suburbs
What is White Flight?
Economy with minimal government intervention
What is a Free Market?
His radio talks reassured Americans during the Great Depression
What are Fireside Chats?
Government policy where Black families were denied loans
What is Redlining?
International organization that failed to stop WWII
What is the League of Nations?
Federal agency accused of denying loans to minorities
What is the FHA?