1900-1945
What is the Red Scare?
Race between the US and USSR to get to space first
What is the Space Race?
Separate but equal
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
Where the US stays out of wars
What is Isolationism?
Signed to make Highways more efficient
What is the Interstate Highway Act?
Protecting interests and rights of native people over immigrants; anti-immigrant
What is Nativism?
Race between the US and USSR to create nuclear weapons
What is the Nuclear Race?
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Getting the US into WWII by bombing
Policies to enact civil rights for African Americans
What is LBJ's Great Society?
1920-1930 where Jazz music became popular
What is the Jazz Age?
Theory that if a communist country takes over everyone will become Communist
What is the Domino Theory?
Legal slavery
What is Sharecropping?
FDR signed to put Japanese Americans into camps
What is Executive order 9066?
Women gaining the rights to their bodies nation wide
What is Roe v Wade?
Homeless areas/shantytowns during the Great Depression
What are Hoovervilles?
Cuba having missiles too close to the US
What is the Cuban Missile crisis?
People want change and reform because the industries got exposed
What is the Progressive Movement?
Acts signed to stay neutral during World War
What are Neutrality acts?
What is the Immigration act of 1965?
Great Plains covered in dust due to poor weather
What is Dust Bowl?
Accusations of possibly innocent people by the government
What is McCarthyism?
People dying at a massacre in Haymarket for protesting
What is the Haymarket Riot?
FDR trying to strengthen bonds between Central and South America
What is the Good Neighbor Policy?
Veterans can now get better education to support their family