1920's
Created the Assembly line
who is Henry Ford
What Major crash Sparked the Great Depression?
What is the stock market crash
June 6, 1944, Allied forces storm the beaches of Normandy
what is D-Day
Soviets do not remove troops after the war. An Iron Curtain separates Soviet occupied/controlled satellites and Western Europe
What is Divided Europe
You cannot discriminate in public facilities
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964
New “rebellious” behavior of young women during the Prohibition Era. Ex: smoking, drinking, dancing, showing more leg, shorter hair
What is The "Flapper"
Industries just made too much, this was a product of a prosperous decade and the inability to slow down
What is Overexpansion
Plan to create the first atomic bomb
what is the Manhattan Project
U.S. will support “free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by military minorities or by outside pressures.”
What is the Truman Doctrine (1947)
Ends discriminatory practices that prevented equal access to voting
What are the Voting Rights Act of 1965
The rebirth of African American art and culture
what is the Harlem Renaissance
Caused Texas and Oklahoma's panhandle region (primarily, though the entire Great Plains region) to suffer years of overproduction, poor crop rotation, and then years of drought
What is the dust bowl
Goods could be lent or leased to any nation whose defense was deemed necessary for the defense of the United States
What is the "Lend-Lease"
Soviets blockade all truck and train outlets to West Berlin, U.S. engages in a 11 month airlift, flying in thousands of tons of supplies, Soviets lifted the blockade
What is the Berlin Airlift (1948-49)
Landmark case that ruled “separate but equal is inherently unequal.” Basically overturns the “separate but equal” doctrine established with Plessy v. Ferguson.
What is Brown v. Board of Education
What amendment created new criminal activities such as bootlegging and speakeasies?
What is the 18th Amendment
Families in the Dust Bowl area that were forced to move out West
What are Okies
Belligerents could purchase war materials on condition that they paid cash and carried the goods away in their own vessels
What is the "Cash and Carry"
U.S. discovers that the Soviets are building missile launch sites in Cuba
what is the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
Written to the local white clergy who were critical of his “stirring up trouble” in Birmingham. He said he was tired of hearing the word “wait” and that the white moderate was the movement’s biggest obstacle
what is the MLK’s “Letter from Birmingham City Jail”
who taught evolution in public schools and was defended in court by Clarence Darrow?
who is John T. Scopes
Provided work relief and wages for workers, increased government management/responsibility, created thousands of government buildings, etc.
What is The New Deal
U.S. traded 50 “over-age” destroyers to Britain in exchange for military bases on British territory in the Western Hemisphere
What is the Destroyer-Naval Base Deal
U.S. will use economic and military power to prevent Communists from gaining control in the Middle East
What is the Eisenhower Doctrine (1957)
1000 young boys and girls walk out of school and march in the cause. Hundreds are thrown in jail and many have fire houses and attack dogs turned on them by Eugene “Bull” Conner’s Public Safety force.
What is The Children’s March