The WWII Home Front
These government-issued books contained stamps or coupons that each family used to purchase their "fair share" of scarce goods like sugar, meat, and gasoline
What are War Ration Books?
This 1947 policy declared that the U.S. would provide military and economic aid to any free people, specifically in Greece and Turkey, resisting communist subjugation
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision overturned the "separate but equal" doctrine and ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
President Lyndon B. Johnson gave this name to his ambitious domestic agenda that included the War on Poverty and Medicare
What is the Great Society?
This 1994 trade agreement abolished most trade barriers between the United States, Mexico, and Canada to create a system of free trade
What is NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)?
This 1942 executive order authorized the military to evacuate and incarcerate 120,000 Japanese Americans in internment camps without due process
What is Executive Order 9066?
This Cold War theory argued that if one country in a region fell to communism, the surrounding countries would inevitably follow
What is the Domino Theory?
This 1955 protest began after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, eventually leading to a year-long boycott that desegregated city buses
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Established in 1965, this social security amendment provides health insurance for Americans aged 65 and older
What is Medicare?
Signed into law after 9/11, this act expanded government authority to monitor telephone and email communications of suspected terrorists
What is the USA PATRIOT Act?
This governmental agency was responsible for converting consumer industries to wartime production and overseeing the rationing of materials like rubber and metal
What is the War Production Board?
The United States and United Kingdom airlifted food and fuel to Berlin from Allied air bases in western Germany
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This 1965 federal law outlawed discriminatory voting practices, such as literacy tests, and authorized federal examiners to monitor polling places
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This landmark 1966 ruling established that law enforcement must advise suspects of their right to remain silent and right to an attorney before interrogation.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
This 2007–2009 economic crisis was the worst downturn since the 1930s and was triggered by a collapse in the housing and financial markets
What is the Great Recession?
This African American campaign, launched in 1942, championed "Democracy at Home and Abroad," seeking victory over fascism overseas and racism at home
What is the Double V Campaign?
This 13-day political and military standoff in 1962 followed the discovery of Soviet nuclear-armed missiles installed just 90 miles from U.S. shores
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
He was a prominent NAACP lawyer who argued the Brown v. Board case and later became the first African American Supreme Court Justice
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
In 1966, this is one of founders of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in Oakland, California, outlining their goals in the Ten-Point Program.
Who are Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale?
This 2010 healthcare law, the most significant regulatory makeover of the system since the 1960s, sought to increase health insurance quality and affordability
What is the Affordable Care Act (or Obamacare)?
In this case, the Supreme Court upheld the exclusion of people of Japanese descent from the West Coast Military Area during World War II
What is Korematsu v United States?
This senator launched a "Red Scare" in 1950 by claiming he had a list of over 200 communists working within the U.S. State Department
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
This form of protest involves occupancy of segregated spaces and refusal to leave after being denied service due to their race
What are sit-ins?
This 1973 Supreme Court decision ruled that the Constitution protects a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction
What is Roe v Wade?
This 2010 reform act gave federal regulators stronger authority to break up large companies and protected consumers from predatory loan practices following the 2008 crisis
What is the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act?