The Roaring Twenties
After a war, the process of discharging soldiers and returning to peacetime production
What is demobilization?
October 29th, 1929
What is Black Tuesday? What is the day the stock market crashed?
Germany, Italy and Japan
Who are the Axis Powers?
He is known as the father of Communism
Who is Karl Marx?
This group was formed in Oakland California in order to "Police the Police"
Who are the Black Panthers?
The fear of communism in the 1920's
What is the Red Scare?
His "New Deal" programs helped America begin the recovery from the Great Depression
Who is FDR?
The Soviet Dictator during World War II
Who is Joseph Stalin?
This is the number of occupation zones Germany was divided into following World War II?
What is four?
He visited China in order to ease tensions between the U.S. and Soviet Union
Who is Richard Nixon?
He founded the Tuskegee Institute
Who is Booker T Washington?
John Steinbeck wrote this book, which chronicled the life of an Okie family, moving to California
What is the Grapes of Wrath?
This was the group formed after World War II, whose purpose it is to prevent future World Wars
What is the United Nations?
This was the supergroup, created by communist countries in response to NATO
What is the Warsaw Pact?
His doctrine attempted to assist Afghanistan, Grenada and Nicaragua in their fight against communism
Who is Ronald Reagan?
He believed in "rugged individualism" and thought churches and charities should help out poor people rather than the government
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This New Deal program gave outdoor jobs to young men such as planting trees and draining swamps.
What is the CCC?
He was the President who made the crucial decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan
Who is Harry Truman?
This invasion in Cuba was the biggest foreign policy failure during Kennedy's presidency
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
His affair with an intern led to his impeachment in the 1990's
Who is Bill Clinton?
The pact that was signed in August of 1927 that outlawed war between countries
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
This poet from Harlem portrayed the hardships endured by African-Americans in his poetry
Who is Langston Hughes?
She drafted the Civil Rights section of the United Nations Charter and there is a college in Daytona Beach named after her
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
This was the plan to give economic aid to Europe following the devastation of World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
Who is Gerald Ford?