Presidential Policies
What was Franklin Roosevelt's set of programs to help fight the Great Depression?
The New Deal
The Montgomery Bus Boycott started when this woman refused to give up her seat on the bus?
Rosa Parks
What war went from for 1941-1945 for the US?
World War II
What amendment granted women the right to vote?
The 19th Amendment
Name and describe the economic systems of the United States and the Soviet Union.
The United States is capitalist, prioritizing private property and competition while the Soviet Union was communist, emphasizing state control over industry.
What was Reaganomics?
A series of tax cuts for the rich with the understanding that the wealth would "trickle down" to the rest of society
Martin Luther King Jr. gave what famous speech at the March on Washington?
I have a dream...
The Cold War was primarily a competition between what two superpowers?
The United States and Soviet Union
What were the name of women during the 1920s who wore short dresses and had other greater social freedoms.
Flappers
Joseph McCarthy
What was the Great Society?
A series of social welfare programs designed to improve civil rights, end poverty, and better education
What court case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and ended segregation in schools?
Brown v. Board of Education
The Cold War caused at least two major conflicts in Asia. Name one of them.
Korean War and Vietnam War
How did women's roles change during WWII?
They became greater members of the workforce
What event is considered the closest the United States and Soviet Union ever came to nuclear conflict?
The Cuban Missile Crisis
What was Woodrow Wilson's plan for the post WWI world called?
14 Points
What was the incident called when protestors were marching to Selma and they were brutally beaten by police?
Bloody Sunday
What event(s) brought the US into World War I?
Germany's use of unrestricted submarine warfare and the Zimmerman Telegram
What was the name of the movement for increased women's rights during the 1960s-1980s?
Second Wave Feminism
What was the Marshall Plan?
Major economic funding to western Europe to help them rebuild and create closer trade ties with the United States.
What was the Truman Doctrine?
Established the policy of "containment" to prevent the spread of communism. Provided funding for Greece and Turkey to prevent them from becoming Communist.
What were some limits on voting rights that were removed with the Voting Rights Act of 1965? Name at least two.
1. The Grandfather Clause
2. Poll Tax
3. Literacy Tests
In response to the threat of the Soviet Union, the United States and Western Europe made what military alliance?
NATO
What was the name of the book that helped spark the Second Wave of Feminism?
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
When did the Cold War start and end?
1947-1991