WW1 & WW2
What did The Boy In The Stripe Pajamas represent?
It represented the Jews during the World War. It showed what they did to them (put them in gas chambers & poison them).
What was the Children's March?
Birmingham Children's Crusade, nonviolent protest against segregation held by Black children on May 2–10, 1963, in Birmingham, Alabama. The protest is credited with causing a major shift in attitudes against segregation among Americans and with convincing Pres.
What were places called where stocks are bought and sold/stocks are small ownership of companies?
Stock Exchange.
What was The Roaring 20's?
In the Roaring Twenties, a surging economy created an era of mass consumerism, as Jazz-Age flappers flouted Prohibition laws and the Harlem Renaissance redefined arts and culture.
What were The Jim Crow Laws?
The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation, "Jim Crow" being a pejorative term for an African American. Such laws remained in force until 1965.
What did women do in the World War?
More jobs were available for women because men were away fighting. Women made it possible for the men to have bullets. Some were nurses in the front lines.
What did Emmett Till's death start?
The murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955 brought nationwide attention to the racial violence and injustice prevalent in Mississippi.
What was the shanty town across the US (of homeless camps) named after the president?
Hooverville.
Which format was used in the movies of the 1910s-1920s?
Black & White film.
What was the 13th Amendment?
The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Basically for slavery to be abolished.
What were new weapons used in ww1?
Machine guns, poison gas & tanks.
What movement in the 1960's fought for equality of all Americans?
The Civil Rights Movement.
What were the Hundred Days?
A 3 month trial where 15 major bills needed to be passed because of The Great Depression.
What was a Flapper?
Flappers were a subculture of young Western women prominent after the First World War and through the 1920s who wore short skirts (knee height was considered short during that period), bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for prevailing codes of decent behavior.
Which laws made it illegal for people of different races to be together in private or public?
The Jim Crow Laws.
Why did Churchill favor the use of the atomic bomb?
He favored it only if it might aid the end of the war.
What was the Black Panther Party?
The Black Panther Party was a Marxist–Leninist and black power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, California.
Was the New Deal a good thing or bad thing for people?
The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1938. So it was a good thing.
The era that made it illegal to drink, manufacture, or sell alcohol?
The Prohibition Era.
Which law was created in order to prevent Blacks from voting, it states that if you could not read and write, you could not vote?
The Literacy test.
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
They were a group of African American plane flyers.
What was Brown v. Board?
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.
What was the Bonus Army?
Bonus Army, gathering of probably 10,000 to 25,000 World War I veterans (estimates vary widely) who, with their wives and children, converged on Washington, D.C., in 1932, demanding immediate bonus payment for wartime services to alleviate the economic hardship of the Great Depression.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
The illegal (extra-judicial) killing of Blacks, by terrorist organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan?
Lynching.