Founding docs
states the principles on which our government, and our identity as Americans, are based.
Declaration of Independence
a political, military, and ideological barrier that cuts off and isolates an area.
Iron curtain
the increase in the proportion of people living in towns and cities.
Urbanization
allowed many returning veterans, although not Blacks, to buy affordable homes in tracts around the edges of cities.
Baby Boom/G.I. Bill
Big Stick Policy
when a group of people agree to give up certain rights and accept a central authority in order to protect their other rights.
Social contract
to put someone's name on a list of people who are considered not acceptable, which keeps the person from getting jobs, going certain places, or doing particular things.
Blacklisting
any state or local laws that enforced or legalized racial segregation.
Jim crow laws
the active and professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders, or commands of a government (or any other authority).
Civil Disobedience
subjected Germany to strict punitive measures.
Treaty of Versailles
the fundamental law of the U.S. federal system of government and a landmark document of the Western world.
US Constitution
conflict between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) in which at least 2.5 million persons lost their lives.
Korean war
a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop.
sharecropping
a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
tried to keep the United States out of war, by making it illegal for Americans to sell or transport arms, or other war materials to belligerent nations.
Neutrality Acts
the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution.
The bill of rights
a competition between the United States and the Soviet Union for nuclear weapons superiority.
Nuclear race
the movement of some six million African Americans from rural areas of the Southern states of the United States to urban areas in the Northern states between 1916 and 1970.
Great Migration
abolished quotas, opening the doors to "those who can contribute most to this country – to its growth, to its strength, to its spirit."
Immigration Act of 1965
: a surprise attack often with devastating effect.
Pearl Harbor
the movement became a conflict between established religion and the inquiring mind that wanted to know and understand through reason based on evidence and proof
The Enlightenment
the idea that if one thing falls, a lot more things will fall, too, like a line of dominoes.
Domino theory
Capitalism refers to an economic system in which a society's means of production are held by private individuals or organizations, not the government, and where products, prices, and the distribution of goods are determined mainly by competition in a free market.
capitalism
the Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional.
Brown v. Board of Education
an initiative by a government to fund military operations and spending by issuing debt for the public to purchase.
war bonds