Leaders & Reformers
This Progressive president's "Square Deal" focused on the "Three Cs": Control of corporations, Consumer protection, and Conservation.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
The nickname given to the 1930s region of the Great Plains devastated by drought and over-farming.
What is the Dust Bowl?
The 1929 event that signaled the beginning of the Great Depression and the end of the "Roaring Twenties."
What is the Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday)?
This doctrine pledged U.S. support to any nation resisting "armed minorities or outside pressures" (specifically Greece and Turkey).
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The U.S. foreign policy after WWI, characterized by a refusal to join the League of Nations.
What is Isolationism?
This Alabama Governor and 1968 presidential candidate famously stood for "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."
Who is George Wallace?
This city was the site of a 1948-49 Soviet blockade, leading to a massive Allied airlift of food and fuel.
What is Berlin?
This 1962 event brought the U.S. and USSR to the brink of nuclear war over the installation of Soviet missiles 90 miles off the Florida coast.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This 14-point plan by Woodrow Wilson sought to establish a "League of Nations" to prevent future global conflicts.
What is the Fourteen Points?
This Cold War theory suggested that if one country fell to communism, its neighbors would surely follow.
What is Domino Theory?
This conservative activist was the most vocal opponent of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), arguing it would disadvantage housewives.
Who is Phyllis Schlafly?
The term used for the post-WWII region of the U.S. (South and West) that saw massive population growth due to defense industries and air conditioning.
What is the Sun Belt?
The 1968 military campaign by North Vietnamese forces that, despite being a U.S. tactical victory, turned American public opinion against the war.
What is the Tet Offensive?
The 1970s policy of "thawing" Cold War tensions, pursued by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger.
What is Détente?
This 1947 plan provided $13 billion in aid to rebuild Western Europe and prevent the spread of communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This 1920s author coined the term "The Jazz Age" and critiqued the shallow materialism of the "Lost Generation."
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
This "Levittown" on Long Island became the blueprint for mass-produced, racially segregated post-war living.
What is Suburbia or the Suburbs?
This 1973-74 political scandal led to the first and only resignation of a U.S. President.
What is the Watergate Scandal?
This 1980s scandal involved the secret sale of weapons to Iran to fund anti-communist rebels in Nicaragua
What is the Iran-Contra Affair?
LBJ's domestic program that aimed to eliminate poverty and racial injustice through programs like Head Start.
What is the Great Society?
This labor leader and civil rights activist co-founded the United Farm Workers (UFW) and led the 1965 Delano grape strike.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
This specific island in the Pacific was the site of the 1942 naval battle that became the "turning point" in the war against Japan.
What is Midway?
This 2001 legislation, signed by George W. Bush, aimed to reform education through standardized testing and increased federal oversight.
What is No Child Left Behind?
This 1904 addition to the Monroe Doctrine claimed the U.S. had the right to intervene in Latin American affairs as an "international police power."
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
This 1920s movement emphasized a literal interpretation of the Bible, famously clashing with science in the Scopes Trial.
What is Fundamentalism?