World War II
German, Italy, and Japan made up this power.
What is axis powers?
President Truman's policy of giving American aid to the nations of Turkey and Greece threatened by communist expansion to prevent the spread of communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The racial caste system that treated African Americans like second class citizens in society.
What is the Jim Crow system?
This leader encouraged people to adopt the non-violent approach in fighting for civil rights under the Civil Rights Movement
Who is Martin Luther King?
This act prohibited racial discrimination in voting by outlawing requirements such as the poll taxes and literacy tests extending the right to all citizens.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Detention center where more than 100,000 Japanese Americans were relocated during World War II by order of the president.
What is internment camps?
The dividing line between South and North Korea.
What is the 38th Parallel?
These laws were first enacted in Mississippi and South Carolina in late 1865 to restrict freed blacks' activity.
What are the Black Codes?
President that enacted a series of programs and policies of relief, recovery, and reform to address the effects of the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This act prohibited segregation in public places and discrimination in employment based on race, gender, or national origin.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
During WWII FDR established it to allocate scarce materials, limited or stopped the production of civilian goods, and distributed contracts among competing manufacturers.
What is the war production board?
The competition for supremacy in nuclear weapons between the United States and the Soviet Union to become a global super power.
What is the arms race?
The Supreme Court case that overturned the landmark decision made in the Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine was unconstitutional in public schools and educational facilities.
What is the Brown v. Board of Education case?
President that led the country through the final stages of World War II and through the early years of the Cold War. He established that United States would provide economic, military, and political aid to all democratic nations under the threat of Communism.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
The national effort made by African Americans during the 1950s and 1960s to eliminate segregation and gain equal rights.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
The battle in which the Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers in June of 1942. Known as the United States naval victory over the Japanese fleet. It marked a turning point in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
What is the Battle of Midway?
President Kennedy's plan to round up Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Castro.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
In 1955, after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus, Dr. Martin Luther King led a boycott of city buses. After 11 months the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public transportation was illegal.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
President that brought a new look to the national security policy of the United States in 1953.
Who is Eisenhower?
The advertising campaign character used during World War II to encourage women to take on factory jobs.
What is Rosie the Riveter?
African Americans fought for victory against the Axis powers abroad and victory against racism at home.
What is the Double V Campaign?
The idea that if one nation falls under communist control that other nations would fall too like a row of dominoes.
What is the Domino Theory?
A series of political protests against segregation by blacks and whites riding buses together through the American South in 1961.
What are Freedom Rides?
Served as Premier of the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War supported a peaceful co-existence with Communism.
Who is Nikita Kruschev?
The Soviet Union launched the world's first artificial satellite rocket to the lead in the Cold War's Space Race. This produced the fear that the United States military was technologically behind.
What is the sputnik?