Life after WWll
Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide.
Roe v. Wade
The Japanese attack in 1941 that led the U.S. into WWII.
Pearl Harbor
FDR’s programs aimed at economic recovery during the Depression.
New Deal
U.S. and USSR competition to build more powerful weapons.
Nuclear Race
transformed economies that had been based on agriculture and handicrafts into economies based on large-scale industry, mechanized manufacturing, and the factory system
Industrial Revolution
Protected African Americans’ right to vote by banning literacy tests
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy emphasizing military power
Big Stick Policy
The stock market crash that triggered the Great Depression.
Black Tuesday
Lowered the voting age to 18, influenced by the Vietnam War draft.
26th Amendment
The growth of cities due to industrial job opportunities
Urbanization
President Johnson’s programs aimed to eliminate poverty and racial injustice.
LBJ’s Great Society
U.S. dropped atomic bombs on these cities to end WWII.
Hiroshima/Nagasaki
Fear of communism that led to suppression of suspected radicals.
Red scare
A Cold War conflict where the U.S. fought to prevent communist expansion.
Vietnam War
Journalists (like Riis and Tarbell) who exposed societal problems during the Progressive Era.
Muckrakers
The 1950s–60s saw economic prosperity, mass consumerism, and increased middle-class wealth
Age of Affluence
1898 war that resulted in U.S. control of former Spanish territories
Spanish-American War
Practice that contributed to the 1929 stock market crash.
Buying on Margin
U.S. flew supplies to West Berlin during a Soviet blockade.
Berlin Wall/Airlift
An economic system based on private ownership and free markets
Capitalism
Created a national highway system, boosting the economy and suburban growth.
Interstate Highway Act
A key shipping canal built by the U.S. that connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
Panama Canal
Cultural revival of African American music, art, and literature.
Harlem Renaissance
Tense standoff between the U.S. and USSR over nuclear missiles in Cuba.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Crowded and poorly built apartment buildings where many immigrants lived
Tenement Housing