Shantytowns built of shelters made of cardboard and any materials available. (named after President Hoover who they blamed)
What is Hoovervilles?
100
Lending of US military weapons/machines to the Allies in return for leases on land in their territories for military bases.
What is the Lend Lease Act?
100
The policy of the US to keep the nations that were already communist from spreading communism to other nations that were not.
What is Containment?
100
The men came home from war causing this.
What is the Baby Boom?
100
A prominent leader of the Civil Rights movement, delivered a very famous speech during the March on Washington.
Who is Martin Luther King JR?
200
Was established to regulate and watch over the stock market, and to increase public faith in financial institutions
What is the Security Exchange Commission?
200
Raised taxes and sold war bonds
What are the ways the US government paid for WWII?
200
Ended where it started with the 38th parallel still being the divider. (never technically ended)
What is the Korean War?
200
There were offensive missile sites discovered in a communist nation close to American shores leading to this event.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
200
Forced the desegregation of the public bus system in Montgomery, AL.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
300
Buying stocks using borrowed money; buying using credit.
What is buying on the margin?
300
Limiting materials like fuel, food, and other items for consumer use that were needed for the war effort.
What is rationing?
300
Policy that the US would provide aid to any free nation resisting communist take over.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
300
The name for President Johnson's reform program to aid Americans that were living in poverty.
What is the "Great Society"?
300
Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson, striking down separate but equal in public schools.
What is the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision?
400
Was established to insure bank deposits up to a certain amount should the bank fail.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Commission (the FDIC)
400
Code name for the development of the Atomic bomb at Los Alamos, New Mexico.
What is the Manhattan Project?
400
Lasted 321 days and had planes dropping supplies as often as one every minute.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
400
Increased the opportunities for females to play school sports.
What is Title IX?
400
Where federal troops were forced to go to force the integration of a southern high school
What is Little Rock Arkansas, Central High School?
500
FDR wanted to increase the number of Supreme Court justices, because the Supreme Court was declaring so many New Deal programs unconstitutional.
What is the court packing scheme?
500
Camps in the Western US where Japanese Americans were forced to move because of fear they were loyal to Japan.
What is Internment Camps?
500
Named after the Senator that started it, who developed the practice of making a series of accusations without offering proof during this eras Red Scare.
What is McCarthyism?
500
Was a symbol of teenagers rebellion against the establishment.
What is Rock 'N Roll?
500
Called for radical action in passing the Equal Rights Amendment or the ERA