1960s/1970s
The only President to resign while in office, after the Watergate Scandal.
Who is Richard Nixon?
The March on Washington is an example of this type of protest favored by Dr. King.
What is nonviolent protest?
The fear that a nuclear war would lead to the total annihilation of both sides.
What is mutually assured destruction (MAD)?
The US maintained this policy in the early years of WWII, opting to stay out of another European war.
What is isolationism?
Women who defied tradition, hiked up their skirts, and dyed their hair black were called this.
What are flappers?
The term for the difference between government reports and reality in Vietnam.
What is the credibility gap?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned this type of discrimination.
What is segregation in public spaces?
The term for the division between western Europe and the Soviet Union and its satellite nations.
What is the Iron Curtain?
When Britain could no longer afford to buy weapons from the US, FDR asked Congress to authorize this new program.
What is Lend-Lease?
Famous jazz club in Harlem, where racial barriers started to come down.
What is the Cotton Club?
Who is JFK?
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed in response to southern states disenfranchising African Americans. Name ONE of the THREE ways states did that.
What is grandfather clause, literacy tests, and poll tax?
The closest the world has ever come to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This group saved the lives of many Marines at Iwo Jima, using a code the Japanese could never interpret.
Who are the Navajo Code Talkers?
He led the Back to Africa movement and founded the Black Star Line.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
Both President Ford and President Carter struggled (and failed) to deal with this problem, caused by an embargo enacted by OPEC.
What is the energy crisis?
Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta led this group, which fought for higher wages and better working conditions for Latinos working in agriculture.
What is United Farm Workers?
The Korean War is an example of this way the US and USSR fought during the Cold War.
What is a proxy war?
Term for the US military strategy in the Pacific.
What is island hopping?
FDR's informal radio addresses to the American people, when he explained New Deal programs, were called this.
What are fireside chats?
President Johnson's domestic policy, focused on ending poverty and racial discrimination, was called this.
What is the Great Society?
This group fought against privatization and individual ownership of reservation lands.
What is the American Indian Movement (AIM)?
US foreign policy that provided economic aid to European countries to restore stability after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The US finally emerged from the Great Depression thanks to this during WWII.
What is wartime manufacturing?
FDR's New Deal had three goals, or the three "R's". Name one of the three R's.
What is relief, recovery, or reform?