Rosa Parks and NAACP
What is segregation?
His response to the Great Depression was the New Deal.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Commander over the Normandy invasion; he later became President of the United States.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Stock market crash, dust bowl, and the Smoot-Hawley Tarriff.
What is the Great Depression?
Urbanization, child labor, and the rise of labor unions.
What is the Second Industrial Revolution?
Prohibition
What is alcohol?
He faced down the Soviet Union in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who was John F. Kennedy?
Leader of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I; his nickname was Black Jack because he had commanded African-American units.
Who is John J. Pershing?
Pearl Harbor
What is U.S. entry into World War II?
Gas crisis.
What was the oil embargo?
Lester Maddox and George Wallace
What is the Civil Rights movement?
Author of the policy of detente and person who opened relations with Communist China, he was destroyed by the Watergate scandal.
Who is Richard Nixon?
Texas native who commanded the U.S. naval forces in the Pacific during World War II.
Who is Chester Nimitz?
9/11
What is the Global War on Terror?
The 26th Amendment.
Anti-war sentiment and the draft during the Vietnam war.
Anti-War Protesters
What is the Vietnam War?
Leader of the Conservative Movement, his policy of Peace through Strength led to the end of the Cold War.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
General who directed the island hopping strategy of World War II.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
German attacks on American shipping.
What is the U.S. entry into World War I?
The initiative and referendum.
What is the progressive era?
Henry Cabot Lodge
What is the League of Nations and the Treaty of Versailles?
His Fourteen Points shaped the treaty ending World War I.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Retired general whose plan for rebuilding all of Europe, including Germany, helped prevent Communist expansion into Western Europe.
Who is George Marshall?
The red scare.
What are nativism and the eugenics movement?
FDR's Court packing plan.
What was Supreme Court resistance to the New Deal; the Four Horsemen?