Wars
The US vs the Soviet Union
-Americans fear of communism
-USSR fear an American attack
What is The Cold War?
US ban on the production, important, transportation, and distribution of alcohol.
What is Prohibition?
Germany had to take responsibility of Allied war losses by accepting the War Guilt Clause. Ended the war.
What is The Treaty of Versailles?
Social movement that seeks to achieve ideals such as ending of war, minimize human violence, ban guns, and achieve world peace.
What is the Peace Movement?
The forced relocation and incarceration of camps in the interior of the country of many people of Japanese ancestry. Some were American citizens.
What is The Internment of Japanese Americans?
Axis powers (Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria) vs. Allies (US, Britain, France, USSR, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Greece, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Africa, and Yugoslavia)
What is World War II?
The right of women to vote in elections.
What is Women's suffrage?
-Many died!
- Created more friction between the US and the Soviet Union.
- US became aware of the domino effect of communism
- South Korea became a military base
- North Korea carried out nuclear test
What are the Effects of the Korean War?
Broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement regarding concerns for environmental protection and improvement of the health of the environment.
What is Environmentalism?
The 1929 crash of the stock market which sent Wall Street into a panic, wiping out investors.
What is the Cause of The Great Depression?
Pitted communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies against South Vietnam and its allies (US).
What is the Vietnam War?
Encompasses social movements in the US whose goals were to end racial segregation and discrimination.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
The Berlin Wall was destroyed and the Soviet Union had fallen apart.
What is The Outcome of The Cold War?
Brown Vs. Board
Separate public schools for black and white students was unconstitutional.
-California vs. Bakke
Race could be a factor in a college admissions policy, but racial quotas were not allowed.
What is the Desegregation of Schools?
-Non involvement in European and Asian conflicts andiron entanglement in international politics
-America still expanded economically
-Washington advocated for this non-involvement
-Worldwide economic depression furthered the need for isolation
-We rejected our membership in the League of Nations
What is Postwar Isolationism?
Northern Part= Soviet Troops Southern Part= US Troops
-North Korea became communist and wanted to expand.
-The United Nations supported South Korea.
- North Korea sought assistance from assistance from Soviet Union & Peoples Republic of China
-China committed to supporting North Korea
- North Korean troops advanced across the 38th parallel and invaded South Korea.
What is the Korean War?
A broad array of federal, social, and economic programs created under FDR to bring relief to a struggling nation. Minorities suffered greatly.
What is The New Deal?
Provided political, military, and economic assistance to democratic nations threatened by authoritarian forces and governments, including Turkey and Greece. Prevented the Soviet Union from geopolitically spreading during the Cold War.
What is The Truman Doctrine?
Practice of making accusations of subversion (attempt to transform or establish social order) or treason without proper regard for evidence.
What is McCarthyism?
Cultural, Social, and artistic expansion in Harlem between the end of WW1 and the 1930's.
What is The Harlem Renaissance?