Containment
This US Policy sought to assist Post-war European nations rebuild, as long as they rejected communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The outlawing of alcohol under the 18th Amendment became known as this.
What is Prohibition?
These women challenged traditional gender roles by cutting their hair, wearing skimpy clothing, dancing to jazz, and smoking in public.
What are the flappers?
Germany brought the United States into World War I because they tried to get Mexico to attack the US in this famous document.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
This new music style of the 1950s helped define a generation, and endorsed their challenges to Cold War conformity.
What is Rock n' Roll?
This aspect of the Cold War ended with Neil Armstrong walking on the moon.
What is the Space Race?
After the sinking of the Lusitania, American challenged Germany over this practice.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
Black culture became mainstream culture for the first time because of this movement centered in New York.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
He is one of the most heavily decorated soldiers in WWI, even earning the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Who is Sargent Alvin York?
What is social media?
For 13 Days American citizens held their breath because the Soviets placed medium ballistic missiles in this island nation.
What is Cuba?
During the 1960s, African American college students challenged segregation through this non-violent protest at lunch counters across the country.
What are sit ins?
The practice of purchasing on the stock market is called this.
What is buying on the margin?
Franklin Roosevelt said that this day would live in infamy.
December 7th, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Franklin Roosevelt embraced this new media to reach the American people during the Great Depression, in what he called fireside chats.
What is radio?
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
This theory says that wherever communism pops up, it will spread across the region.
What is the domino theory?
Including F. Scott Fitzgerald, these authors were disillusioned with society after their experiences during World War I.
Who are the Lost Generation?
This treaty forced Germany to accept full responsibility for World War I and demanded they pay reparations.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
During the election of 1960, Richard Nixon did not understand the implications of this new pop media, which made him look tired and sickly.
What is Television?
Ronald Reagan's proposed missile defense system that claimed to make the United States safe from Soviet nuclear missiles.
What is the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) also known as Star Wars.
Richard Nixon's policy of normalizing relations with communist powers.
What is detente?
This Black Nationalist leader supported segregation with the "back to Africa" movement.
Who was Marcus Garvey?
The top secret mission to create the first atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This truly American music style became so popular, that an entire decade was nicknamed for it.
What is Jazz?