1920's
A popular music genre
A stock market with an upward trend in prices
70,000 soldiers were forced to march through the jungle on their way to prison camp
Countries under soviet control
What are satellite nations?
The act of sitting in protest and refusing to leave
What are sit-ins?
The flourishing of black artists in Harlem
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Buying stocks with borrowed money
What is margin buying?
The deliberate annihilation of an entire people
What is genocide?
The movement seeking a Jewish homeland in Palestine
What is Zionism?
Amendment that gave African-Americans the right to vote
Group of writers that spoke of their horror at the destruction of WWI
What is the Lost Generation?
The idea that individual people and charities can help more than the government
This act provided the first peacetime draft in U.S. History
What s the Selective Training and Service Act?
A corporation run by single families that had monopolized the Japanese government
What is zaibatsu?
Amendment that outlawed poll taxes
What is the 24th Amendment?
A group of detectives formed to take down Al Capone
Who are the Untouchables?
He won in the election of 1932
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
President Roosevelt created this to increase military production
What is the War Production Board?
He was caught lying about the U-2 flights spying on the Soviet Union
This act put the voting process under federal control
A new craze that allowed people to do sightseeing vacations and camping
What is auto-touring?
Towns for the homeless made of boxes, scrap lumber, corrugated iron, and other thrown away items
What is the Battle of Okinawa?
A communist spy who was caught lying in court
Who is Alger Hiss?
Called for black seperatism
What is the Black Power movement?