Economics
Politics
Social Structure
American Identity
America in the World
100

An act to create a minimum wage by JFK.

Minimum Wage Act 

100

This person assassinated JFK in Dallas. 

Lee Harvey Oswald

100

A common view of what a happy family would look like.

Nuclear family

100

Where housing was cheap but very racist against minorities. 

Levittown 

100

A war that takes place right after World War 2 and lasts until 1989.

Cold War

200

A time right after the war that caused a huge economic boom and stability. 

Postwar economy 

200

This president's popularity decreased among the American public during the Vietnam War.

Lyndon Johnson 

200

This Supreme Court case desegregated school, but with lots of resistance from white Americans.

Brown v. Board of Education

200

A culture who values differ from the norms and mainstream society.

Counterculture

200

An effort to rebuild war torn Europe and assist other developing nations to avoid Communism from spreading.

International Monetary Fund

300

A neoliberal economic policies promoted by the 40th president.

Reaganomics

300

A 13 day confrontation starting on October 16,1962 because of weapons.

Cuban Missile Crisis 

300

Happened right after World War 2, and was meant to increase the population.

Baby boom

300

Movement for social change.

Civil rights movement 

300

A drop in oil production caused a crisis where the oil shot up in price caused this crisis. 

Economic Crisis 

400

Created in 1964, meant to help Americans with poverty issues.

Office of Economic Oppuritunity

400

U.S. policy to contain Soviet Union and communism from spreading.

Containment

400

A very significant African-American that was one of the main reasons for rights for African-Americans.

Martin Luther King Jr

400

Gave federal funding to higher education to boost colleges and universities.

National Defense Education Act

400

An attempt by the US to help this country from going to communism, ended up losing.

Vietnam War

500

A program created in 1965 to give basic medical insurance to the elderly.

Medicare

500

An act in 1965 that helped African-Americans overcome a tremendous obstacle.

Voting Rights Act of 1965

500

A movement that centered in urban areas in order to address systemic issues of poverty, discrimination, and police brutality against American Indians.

American Indian Movement

500

A document signed by 101 members of Congress from southern states that argued the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education was unconstitutional.

Southern Manifesto

500

A doctrine of military strategy that says that full nuclear war means the complete annihilation of the attacker and defender.

Mutual assured destruction