The Civil War
a system of choosing people for required military service
draft
a system in which a farmer rented land, tools, seed, and housing from a landowner in return for a share of the crop
sharecropping
money that a defeated nation pays to the victor to make up for a war's destruction
reparations
lightning war
blitzkrieg
the act of occupying an establishment as a form of organized protest
sit-in
the announcement on January 1, 186, by President Lincoln that all enslaved people in Confederate territory would be considered free
Emancipation Proclamation
laws that made segregation official in public facilities in the South
Jim Crow laws
an organization of nations established at the end of World War I to maintain world stability
League of Nations
the American strategy to win World War II in the Pacific by using islands as stepping stones to reach Japan
island-hopping
resistance to injustice through marches, boycotts, sit-ins, etc.
nonviolent direct action
a short, but powerful speech delivered on November 19, 1863, by President Abraham Lincoln dedicating a cemetery in which about 6,000 battle dead lay buried
Gettysburg Address
became president after Abraham Lincoln's assassination
Andrew Johnson
next in line to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian empire; assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
the alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II
Axis Powers
became president after John F. Kennedy's assassination
Lyndon B. Johnson
this battle near Sharpsburg, Maryland, was a turning point for the Union in the Civil War
Battle of Antietam
a post-Civil War period in which Congress imposed strict military rule in the South
Radical Reconstruction
the peace agreement that formally ended World War I
Treaty of Versailles
World War II began in September 1939 after the invasion of this country
Poland
President Lyndon Johnson's 1964 program to end poverty and racial injustice
Great Society
gained command of the Union at the end of the war and planned to attack the Confederacy on all fronts
ruler overthrown by U.S. Marines and wealthy planters in Hawaii
Queen Liliuokalani
these TWO things helped Britain endure Germany's blitzkrieg
ONE of the four other Black women (besides Rosa Parks) who had been arrested in Montgomery, AL, for refusing to give up their seats on a bus
Aurelia S. Browder
Claudette Colvin
Mary Louise Smith
Susie McDonald