1920s
Due to xenophobia, the following people were put to death for something that did not have sufficient evidence.
Sacco and Vanzetti
What is demobilization?
Term used to describe the hatred of the Jewish race.
What is antisemitism?
The race to space resulted in the Soviet Union creating a satellite that became known as...
What is Sputnik?
Became known as the court case that decreed "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Expansion of this terrorist group occurred in the early 1920s targeting African Americans and Immigrants.
What is the KKK?
Some of the wealthiest Americans began playing the stock market, and borrowing money from banks in order to do so.
What is margin buying?
The Soviet Union signed a treaty with Germany to not attack each other.
What is the nonaggression pact?
Term used by the United States to describe stopping the spread of communism, but not eliminating it.
What is containment?
The Supreme Court case that overturned the decision made by the predecessor, allowing for the Civil Rights Movement to prosper.
What is Brown v. The Board of Education?
This became the first amendment to ever be repealed, enforced by the Volstead Act.
What is the 18th Amendment, Prohibition?
Texas and Oklahoma and the entire Great Plains region suffered years of overproduction, poor crop rotation, years of drought, and then dust storms.
What is the dust bowl?
The term used to describe the changing of a peacetime economy to a wartime economy.
What is mobilization?
The trials that showed the world you can be punished for acts committed during the war.
What are the Nuremberg Trials?
Ends discriminatory practices that prevented equal access to voting
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This teacher began teaching Darwinism, going against the culturally accepted belief in faith.
Who is John T. Scopes?
Secretive plan and arms race to create the first atomic bomb by the United States.
What is the Manhattan Project?
Term used to describe the United States tactic of conquering each individual island in the Pacific.
What is island hopping?
The Western European nations combined with the United States, Canada and Iceland joined to make an alliance...
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO?)
Made Jim Crow laws unconstitutional, you are not allowed to discriminate in public places.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Many people were able to purchase large items on credit.
What is an Installment Plan?
Stock Market term used to describe when stock prices are rising or are expected to rise.
What is a bull market?
The United States used this to force relocation or imprisonment of Japanese-American citizens.
What is internment?
Institution created by the United States to spy on enemy nations.
What is the CIA?
King delivers the “I Have a Dream” Speech
What is the March on Washington 1963?