Progressive Era
The Progressive Era was a response to this previous era
The Gilded Age
The term for anti communist sentiment following both World Wars
The Red Scare
This was FDR’s response to the Great Depression
The New Deal
Civil Rights leader who delivered the March on Washington Speech
MLK
JFK avoids near disaster and negotiates the moving of missiles in 1963
Cuban Missile Crisis
Muckraking
The nuclear bombs were dropped on these two cities
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
LBJ’s successor to FDR’s New Deal
The Great Society
Opposed MLK’s ideas of peaceful protest and often opted for more violent means
Malcolm X
First man made satellite ever launched in space
Sputnik
Name the 3 progressive presidents
Teddy, Wilson, Taft
U.S. military strategy in the pacific islands to slowly approach Japan
Island Hopping
The tariff placed under Hoover that was disastrous for the Great Depression economy
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
Author of the Feminine Mystique and founder of the NOW
Betty Friedan
Nixon’s peaceful relations with the communist east
Detente
Who won the election of 1912 and why?
Wilson, Taft and Teddy split the Republican vote
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The sinking of this ship nearly led to U.S. involvement in WW1
This message to Mexico did cause the U.S. to enter WW1
Lusitania and Zimmerman Telegram
This act helped banks stay afloat during the New Deal
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Bill that banned discrimination based on gender in higher education
Title IX
Said this, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
Ronald Reagan
Need both:
Teddy’s addition to the Monroe Doctrine
Taft’s preferred method of foreign policy
Roosevelt Corollary and Dollar Diplomacy
Name the three major conferences between allied powers to end WW2
Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam
This SCOTUS case ruled that the AAA was unconstitutional
Butler v. U.S.
Site of major Gay Rights riot during the 1960s
Stonewall Inn
This message to Harry Truman warned the U.S. about Soviet expansion
Long Telegram