Great Depression
Overproduction, Banking crisis, and the Stock Market Crash
What are causes of the Great Depression?
Word used to limit the availability of goods
What is Rationing?
Name of war that was a war of political beliefs that started after World War II
What was the Cold War?
Taking private land for public use
What is Eminent Domain?
Civil Rights leader who believed in nonviolence
Who was Martin Luther King, Jr?
Won the election of 2008 and was the first African American President
Who is Barack Obama?
Year of the Great Stock Market Crash
What is 1929?
President who decided to use two atomic bombs on Japan to end the war
Who is Harry Truman?
Countries after WWII who were called the Super Powers
What was the US and Russia?
A conservative president put this economic policy in place. It reduced taxes and removed business restrictions.
What is Reaganomics?
Court case that overturned Plessy vs Ferguson
What was Brown vs Board of Education?
A law to reform healthcare in 2010, often called 'Obamacare'
Affordable Care Act
President who was blamed for the Great Depression
Herbert Hoover
This act, also known as the draft, was part of the U.S. industry mobilization during WWII.
What is the Selective Service and Training Act?
Name given to the way to get supplies into Berlin after the road was blocked by the Soviets
What was the Berlin Airlift?
The unfunded mandate to hold schools accountable for kids' learning.
What is the No Child Left Behind Act?
Major thing that happened after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Media platform used by Donald Trump to during the election of 2016
What is Twitter (aka X)?
Name of FDR's plan to get the US out of the Great Depression
What is the New Deal?
Name of Trials for what the Germans had done during WWII
What was the Nuremberg Trials?
In response to civil rights concerns, Truman passed Executive Order 9981 to accomplish this goal.
What is Roe v Wade?
This nonviolent civil rights group was founded by Cesar Chavez to improve conditions for farm workers.
United Farm Workers
After 9-11 act passed where agencies such as FBI and CIA worked together
What is the Patriot Act?
The Securities and Exchange Commission was created to regulate these transactions.
What are stock transactions (stock exchanges)?
Japanese troops trapped the Allies in the Philippines until they surrendered. As POWs, they were forced to march many miles without food or water, resulting in the death of thousands.
What is the Bataan Death March?
Name of plan to rebuild war torn Europe
What was the Marshall Plan?
Republicans promise to hold the government accountable and ensure the opportunity for the American Dream.
What is the Contract with America?
President who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Who was Lyndon B Johnson?
Place where the US believed Osama Bin Laden was after 9-11
What is Afghanistan?
Passed during the Great Depression to insure the banks
What is the FDIC?
Name of court case that stemmed from placing Japanese Americans into internment camps during WWII
What is Korematsu vs US?
This Russian satellite was the first to orbit Earth and it caused Americans to fear the Soviets' missile-launching capabilities.
What was Sputnik I?
What is U.S. v Nixon?
City where Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated
What was Memphis?
A group of Islamic extremists that was formed by remaining members of al-Qaeda.
What is the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)?