Great Depression
The day when the stock market crashed in 1929, and the start of the Great Depression.
Black Tuesday
What caused the United States to join World War II?
Japan bombing Pearl Harbor
An economic system that allows private ownership and promotes the idea of a free market.
Capitalism
U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader. A noted orator, he opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Nobel Peace Prize (1964).
Martin Luther King Jr.
The invasion of what country caused the Allies to declare World War II in 1939?
Poland
What was the series of domestic programs enacted by FDR in the United States between 1933 and 1938 to help the Great Depression?
The New Deal
Which United States President was in office when the atomic bombs were dropped?
Harry Truman
What are two proxy wars that were a result of the Cold War?
Vietnam War and Korean War
Group of civil rights workers who took bus trips through southern states in 1961 to protest illegal bus segregation; leaders Jim Farmer and Jim Peck.
Freedom Riders
When did the Berlin Wall fall?
1989
What were 3 effects of the Great Depression?
Bank Failures, Unemployment, Foreclosures
Dictator of the Soviet Union during World War II
Joseph Stalin
An ideological border in Europe that separated the eastern communist nations and western democratic nations.
Iron Curtain
250,000 people gathered for a peaceful demonstration to promote Civil Rights and economic equality for African Americans. I have a dream speech given here by Martin Luther King jr.
March on Washington
First Black students to enter a desegregated high school in Arkansas after Brown v. Board of Education.
The Little Rock 9
What were 4 causes of the Great Depression?
stock market crash, trade restrictions, drought conditions, reduction in purchasing
General Eisenhower led over 100,000 Allied troops (the largest invasion force in history) to storm the beaches at Normandy and began the process of re-taking France. This invasion is known as a major turning point of World War II.
D-Day
U.S. program providing aid (money) to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II to help stimulate their economies.
Marshall Plan
Supreme Court decision that declared segregation to be unconstitutional in 1954.
Brown vs. Board of Education
A security alliance established by the Soviet Union and other Soviet satellite states to protect communism. A response to the formation of NATO.
Warsaw Pact
What region in the United States experienced severe dust storms due to a combination of drought and poor farming practices from 1930 to 1936?
Southwest Great Plains (Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas)
This act allowed the United States to sell weapons to Great Britain on credit.
The Lend Lease Act
Campaign led by a US Senator against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions; also the political practice of publicizing accusations of disloyalty or subversion with insufficient regard to evidence.
McCarthyism
Discriminatory practice that consists of the systematic denial of services such as mortgages, insurance loans, and other financial services to residents of certain areas, based on their race or ethnicity.
Redlining
President of the United States and Premier of the Soviet Union during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
John F. Kennedy and Nikita Kruschev