WWII
This surprise attack in 1941 brought the U.S. into WWII
What is Pearl Harbor?
This program provided returning soldiers with money for college, homes, and businesses.
What is the GI Bill?
This was LBJ’s vision for a better America with less poverty and more equality.
What is the Great Society?
This 1947 policy promised U.S. support to countries resisting communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
These were women who worked in factories during WWII
Who is Rosie the Riveter (or women workers)?
This government agency oversaw wartime production and industry
What is the War Production Board?
This economic boom after WWII led to increased consumer spending and growth of the middle class.
What is the postwar economic boom?
This more militant leader promoted Black nationalism and self-defense.
Who is Malcolm X?
This event increased U.S. involvement in Vietnam after reported attacks on U.S. ships.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?
This law banned segregation in public places.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This program allowed the U.S. to send aid to Allies before officially joining the war.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
This movement saw many Americans move from cities to newly built communities outside urban areas.
What is suburbanization?
This Supreme Court case ended legal segregation in public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This 1962 crisis brought the U.S. and Soviet Union close to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This term describes the systematic murder of 6 million Jews.
What is the Holocaust?
This president made the decision to use atomic weapons
Who is Harry Truman?
This 1956 law funded the construction of a nationwide highway system across the United States.
What is the Interstate Highway Act?
These nine students integrated a high school in Arkansas in 1957
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
This policy aimed to stop the spread of communism around the world
What is containment?
This fear of communism in the U.S. led to investigations and accusations in the early Cold War.
What is the Red Scare?
This order led to the internment of Japanese Americans.
What is Executive Order 9066?
This type of cultural change in postwar America is shown by the rise of rock and roll, as teenagers began to develop their own identity separate from adults.
What is youth culture (or cultural shift in youth identity)?
This 1963 event included the famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
What is the March on Washington?
This was the main reason the U.S. government justified limiting freedoms during McCarthyism.
What is fear of communism spreading (or national security concerns)?
This line still divides North and South Korea today.
What is the 38th parallel?