1920's
rebirth of the African-American culture and arts; centered in Harlem
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
years of overproduction, poor crop rotation, and years of drought in Texas and Oklahoma
What is the Dust Bowl?
June 6, 1944 Allied forces stormed beaches of Normandy
What is D-Day?
Economic aid given to countries destroyed by World War II
What is the Marshall Plan?
HUAC stands for
What is House Un-American Committee?
bans distribution of selling alcoholic beverages
What is the 18th amendment?
Families in the Dust Bowl that were forced to move out
What are Okies?
Storming the weakest of the islands in the Pacific
What is island hopping?
U.S. Canada and Western Europe formed this alliance
What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
Joseph McCarthy accused many people of spreading a certain political belief
What is communism?
majority of American wealth was owned by what percent of Americans
What is 5% of wealthiest earners?
Economic impact of Great Depression
What are stock market losses and bank failures?
the plan to create the first atomic bomb
What is the Manhattan Project?
Soviets blockade all truck and train outlets to West Berlin
What is the Berlin Airlift?
Plessy V. Ferguson said "separate but equal" Brown V. Board of Education said "-------"
What is "separate means it is unequal; separate is not equal"
Two of the environmental programs from the New Deal
What is Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Civilian Conservation Corps, Tennessee Valley Authority, Works Progress Administration, or Public Works Administration (any of these can work; only need two)?
people played stock market and purchased too many stocks on margin
What are unsound investments?
Economic Impact of World War II
What is communism is spreading very quickly from Soviet Union to Europe?
Several thousand Cuban exiles tried to overthrow Fidel Castro in Cuba
What is the Bay of Pigs?
Amount of people in March of Washington in 1963
What is 250,000?
marked high point of counterculture era
What is woodstock?
2 Economic groups made during Great Depression
What are Home Owners Loan Corporation and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
Political impact of World War II
What is the U.S. and Soviet Union emerge as world powers and Asian and African people become nationalistic?
Order of the Arms Race
What is the A-Bomb, then the H-bomb, Soviets and U.S. had these arms by 1950s
ended discriminatory practices that prevented equal access to voting rights
What is Voting Rights Act of 1965