Order in the Court
Court case that overturned the “Separate but equal” doctrine, banning segregation in schools.
What is Brown v, Board of Education?
A waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans that reduced travel by 5000 miles.
What is the Panama Canal?
The successful plan to rebuild western Europe after WWII and make Communism less attractive.
What is the Marshall Plan?
Leader whose 14 Points, including a League of Nations, aimed to end all war.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Post-Civil War amendments that provided an end to slavery, granted citizenship and voting rights .
What are the 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments?
1896 Supreme Court case that declared segregation legal through the “Separate but Equal” doctrine.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Island nation that was “quarantined” in October 1962 by President Kennedy.
What is Cuba?
Anti-communism fostered by the Russian Revolution and McCarthyism.
What is the Red Scare?
President whose Doctrine promised to aid any country threatened by Communist revolution.
Who is Harry Truman?
Group created in 1913 to fight for African-American Civil rights; co-founded by W.E.B. DuBois.
What is the NAACP?
The Supreme Court upheld the order providing for the relocation of Japanese-Americans.
What is Korematsu v. U.S.?
A collective security agreement between the U.S. and European nations to oppose Communism.
What is NATO?
Order from President Roosevelt that called for Japanese-Americans to move from the west coast.
What is Executive Order 9066?
Leader who sent the 101st Airborne to Little Rock to protect 9 African-American school children.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?”
Law that made it illegal to discriminate in public places or employment.
Who is Civil Rights Act 1964?
1972 decision that a parents' fundamental right to freedom of religion outweighed the state's interest in educating its children.
What is Wisconsin v. Yoder?
In the Midwest, this event resulted in millions moving from the Great Plains to find economic opportunity in California
What is the Dust Bowl?
Resolution passed by Congress, it gave President Johnson authority to fight the Vietnam War.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
80’s President who believed in “Peace through Strength” and tax cuts to stimulate economic growth; known as the Great Communicator.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
Act that outlawed literacy tests and involved the federal government in voting rights.
What is the Voting Rights Act 1965?
Court decision that said specific ethnic or racial groups cannot be excluded from juries.
What is Hernandez v. Texas?
The method by which President Truman responded to the Blockade of Berlin by Stalin.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
The difference between what government said about the Vietnam War and what the press reported.
What are the Credibility Gap?
Leader whose “Great Society” declared war on poverty.
Who is Lyndon Johnson?
It outlawed Poll Tax in Federal elections.
What is the 24th Amendment ?