state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation
Jim Crow Laws
The vast majority of the world's countries, including all of the great powers, fought as part of two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis
World War II
a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
Communism
direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War
Cuban Missile Crisis
a spike in birth rates after WWII
baby boom
journalists and novelists of the Progressive Era who sought to expose corruption in big business and government
Muckrakers
debt instruments that are issued by governments to finance military operations and production in wartime.
War Bonds
a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1939
New Deal
the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries
Domino Theory
supreme court ruled that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional
Brown v. Board of Education
a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop
Sharecropping
Executive Order 9066
the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
Nativism
arms race competition for supremacy in _______ warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies
Nuclear Race
event sparked by the arrest of rosa park and was led by MLK
montgomery bus boycott
a type of building shared by multiple dwellings, typically with flats or apartments on each floor and with shared entrance stairway access
Tenement Housing
artifical waterway that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean
Panama Canal
Black Tuesday
____ was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and rebel activities on the part of private citizens, public employees and organizations suspected of having Communist ties. Citizens suspected of having ties to the communist party would be tried in a court of law.
HUAC
black power political and criminal organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P.
black panthers
Progressive Amendments
United States Navy ship that sank in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898, contributing to the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in April
U.S.S. Maine
borrowing money from a broker to purchase stock.
Buying on Margin
proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe.
truman doctrine/marshall plan
rapid increase in the production and availability of consumer, an increase in family income and decrease in poverty
Age of Affluence