Big Business & Big Changes
This industry leader built a steel empire and promoted the “Gospel of Wealth.”
Andrew Carnegie
This amendment granted women the right to vote in 1920.
19th amendment
This 1941 attack brought the U.S. into World War II.
Pearl Harbor
This president created the New Deal to combat the Great Depression.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
This rivalry between the U.S. and Soviet Union was called this.
The Cold War
This oil tycoon controlled Standard Oil and became one of the richest men in history.
John D. Rockefeller
This civil rights leader delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech.
Martin Luther King Jr.
This war was fought to stop the spread of communism in Southeast Asia.
Vietnam War
This scandal forced President Nixon to resign in 1974.
Watergate Scandal
This 1962 crisis brought the U.S. and USSR to the brink of nuclear war.
Cuban Missile Crisis
This law, passed in 1890, aimed to break up monopolies and trusts.
Sherman & Clayton Anti-Trust Acts
Journalists like Upton Sinclair who exposed social problems were known by this nickname.
Muckrakers
This policy aimed to stop the spread of communism worldwide.
Containment
This economic policy in the 1980s focused on tax cuts and deregulation.
Reaganomics
This military alliance included the U.S. and Western European nations.
NATO
This was a type of protest used where people stop working.
Strike
This president launched the Great Society programs to fight poverty and inequality.
President Lyndon B. Johnson
This conflict ended in a stalemate at the 38th parallel, North is communist and South is democratic
Korean War
This doctrine promised U.S. support to countries resisting communism after WWII.
Truman Doctrine
This term described the fear of communism spreading from one country to another.
Domino Theory
Monopoly/trust
This 1965 law outlawed discriminatory voting practices like literacy tests.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This concept was the cause of both WWI and WWII.
German aggression
This president authorized the use of atomic bombs on Japan.
President Harry Truman
This idea under Reagan aimed to increase military spending to pressure the USSR.
Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars)