Fight Da Rats (FDR)
This act was signed into law in 1935 and established a system that gives old-age benefits, unemployment insurance, and welfare assistance to Americans.
What is the Social Security Act?
An impromptu, public exchange between Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev at the American national exhibition in Moscow, debating the merits of capitalism and communism.
What is the Kitchen Debate?
This mutual defense alliance formed following WW2 and aimed to contained Soviet aggression in the early years of the Cold War. Included the USA, Canada, and Western European nations.
What is North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
JFK's domestic and foreign policy agenda that focused on boosting the economy by increasing education funding, healthcare for the elderly, civil rights initiatives and STEM programs like the space program.
What is the New Frontier?
Define what the Bracero Program is.
What is a government initiative with Mexico that allowed about 5 million Mexican citizens to the USA for seasonal agricultural and railroad labor to solve shortages caused by WW2.
These relief agencies were created to fight unemployment during the Great Depression by creating jobs to support public, federal infrastructure.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
Bonus Point: Which came first?
A Republican senator who fueled ideas of containment by fueling early 1950s ideas of the Second Red Scare and ideas that communists had infiltrated the American government.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
Laws passed in the USA aimed at maintaining American isolationism as WW2 expanded. This prohibited America from selling arms, providing loans or other forms of entanglement. Lead to the idea of a "cash-and-carry" policy.
What are the Neutrality Acts?
Bonus Point: What is the Berlin Blockade?
A congressional committee that investigated suspected disloyalty and claims of communism especially prevalent in Hollywood.
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
A revolt against the American government led by WW1 veterans who demanded payment for their service and their promised bonus.
What is the Bonus Army?
A failed attempt to add 6 liberal justices to the supreme court to further FDR's New Deal legislation.
What is the Court-Packing Plan?
A radical Senator who rose to fame during the Great Depression with his ideas of capping fortunes in order to fund a minimum income and homes for all Americans.
What is "Share Our Wealth" and Huey Long?
An American led initiative that provided financial aid to Western European nations to allow them to rebuild after WW2.
Bonus Point: What was the Lend-Lease/Destroyers for Bases?
What is the Marshall Plan?
What is pivotal US foreign policies that allowed FDR to assist the Allies without formally joining WW2 specifically Britain.
Truman's 1949 domestic agenda that focused on expanding FDR's New Deal reforms especially economic equity and social welfare in the wake of WW2.
What is the Fair Deal?
Supreme Court case that declared the National industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) of 1933 unconstitutional.
What is the Schechter v. N.R.A or the sick chicken case?
A New Deal program that aimed to restore confidence in the banking system after the panic of the Great Depression.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
In this election Democrat Harry S. Truman defeated Republican Thomas E. Dewey by relying on ideas of a continuation of the New Deal, civil rights initiatives, and the legacy of FDR.
Bonus Point: What is a Dixiecrat?
What is the Election of 1948?
Southern Democrats who opposed Truman and aimed to preserve segregation and the idea of states' rights.
Describe what containment is, its goals, and why it is important.
What is stopping the spread of communism via interventionism in fear of it taking over the capitalist country of America after the conflicts in Europe, Asia and Latin America, influencing politics for all future elections?
Bonus Point: How does these ideas of containment influence future events such a the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The main purpose of Truman's Doctrine.
What is laying the foundation of Cold War policy by establishing that the USA would provide economic and military aid to democratic nations under threat of authoritarian (communist) forces?
Landmark Second New Deal program that guaranteed workers the right to organize unions and the powers that entails such as collective bargaining and right to strike.
Bonus Point: What is the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947?
What is the Wagner Act?
Act that severely restricted labor union power that was passed by Congress despite Truman attempting to veto it. Rolled back many protections guaranteed by the Wagner Act.
In an attempt to stabilize the American economy, FDR pushed these two initiatives to stabilize the national economy by targeting American industries such as manufacturing and farming.
What is the National Industrial Recovery Act (1933) and the Agricultural Adjustment Agency (AAA)?
Election where Democrat FDR defeated Republican Herbert Hoover with his ideas of a New Deal and ending the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal Coalition?
What is the Election of 1932?
A powerful and diverse voting bloc that supported the democratic party following FDR's promises during the Great Depression, including all sorts of people such as working-class whites, ethnic minorities, unions, Southern whites, and African Americans.
Bonus Point: How did FDR endear himself and his plans to the public?
The final "Big Three" meeting that solidified the division of power following the end of WW2 with Truman replacing FDR and Clement Attlee replacing Winston Churchill.
Bonus Point: What was the Yalta Conference?
What is the Potsdam Conference?
A pivotal WW2 meeting between the "Big 3" to plan the final defeat of Germany and how the power will be reorganized in Europe.
Define what the Eisenhower doctrine dictated.
What is the USA's foreign policy that pledge military and economic aid to Middle Eastern nations who are resisting communist regimes especially as a way to combat Soviet aggression with the Suez Canal.
This executive order established Japanese Internment camps.
What is Executive Order 9066?