WW1 and the 20s
This period in the 1920s marked a major cultural revolution for Black American writers, artists and musicians.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The New Deal was in response to this economic crisis that began in 1929.
What is the Great Depression?
This man and his "Square Deal" is widely considered to be the first true Progressive President
Who is Teddy/Theodore Roosevelt?
What is the Vietnam War?
The late 40s and 50s saw a widespread crackdown on perceived communists and radical led by the FBI, and Congress. It was known as this:
What is the 2nd Red Scare / McCarthyism?
This white supremacist organization saw a resurgence in the 1920s as an anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic and anti-black rights movement.
What is the Ku Klux Klan/KKK?
F.D.R. created a wide range of agencies designed to get people working during his first 100 days, which are collectively called this.
What are the Alphabet Soup Agencies?
The 16th Amendment created this long sought after progressive goal as a means of redistributing wealth.
What is a progressive income/national income tax?
This crisis in 1962 between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. marks the closest we have come to World War II, and the beginning of Détente
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This foreign policy stance argued that the United Sates must be ready at all times to contain the spread of Communism anywhere in the world.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The ratification of this Amendment led to a wave of organized crime across the United States in the 1920s
What is the 21st Amendment?
This 2nd New Deal program created a universal pension for the elderly
What is Social Security?
This Amendment was designed to bypass corrupt political bosses by directly electing Senators
What is the 17th Amendment?
This law made sexism and discrimination illegal in private businesses and higher education.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
The launch of this, prompted the United States to demand science curriculums in high schools and more engineering programs in universities.
What is Sputnik?
This World War I Era law essentially made criticizing the war effort illegal and led to the jailing of radical newspaper writers and editors.
What is the Sedition Act?
Roosevelt created this agency as an insurance company for banks, in order to get people to reinvest their money.
What is the FDIC / Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
This law created formalized the idea of a "weekend" by requiring overtime pay for any work week over 40 hours.
What is the Adamson 8-Hour Act?
These documents revealed that Nixon had illegally expanded the Vietnam War into neighboring Cambodia and Laos.
What are the Pentagon Papers?
In his farewell address, Eisenhower warned of this potentially dangerous alliance.
What is the military-industrial complex?
This organization, created by Woodrow Wilson during World War I, nationalized the economy and put all American civilians on rationing.
What is the War Industries Board?
As a result of the Supreme Court striking down several New Deal programs, this economic event occurred in 1938.
What is the Roosevelt / Double Dip Recession?
Created by Woodrow Wilson, this organization monitors the economy by controlling interest rates.
What is the Federal Reserve?
In response to Silent Spring and Earth Day, Nixon created this powerful regulatory bureaucracy.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
This alliance was created by the United States to protect Western Europe and discourage nuclear proliferation thanks to the concept of a "nuclear umbrella"
What is NATO/North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
In response to a bomb scare, this controversial program resulted in the mass-deportation of suspected radical immigrants.
What are the Palmer Raids?
The Wagner Act created this organization which allows the White House to intervene in strikes and negotiate terms for workers.
What is the National Labor Relations Board/NLRB?
In response to outcry following the publishing of The Jungle, Roosevelt signed this sweeping legislation.
What is the Clean Food and Drug Act?
Violence against this voting rights movement led to Kennedy calling for a "cooling off period" in the Civil Rights Struggle
What was the Freedom Rides/Freedom Riders?
What were the S.A.L.T. /Strategic Arms Limitation Talks?