DATES
Dec. 7, 1941
What is the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?
Famous muckraker that exposed the meat-packing industry in his novel The Jungle, 1906. His book led to food safety regulations across the nation.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This is what was formed to fight for workers' rights (ex. better pay and safer working conditions)
A. Labor Unions
B. muckrakers
What are labor unions?
Yellow journalism or exaggerated headlines caused the U.S. to get involved in this conflict after the U.S.S. Maine exploded on Havana Harbor in Cuba. The U.S. then received Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines after winning this short war. What is the name of this conflict?
What is the Spanish-American War?
This Cold War policy meant the United States was going to stop the spread of Communism around the globe.
A. Berlin airlift
B. containment
What is Containment?
This 1954 court case overturned (canceled) Plessy v. Ferguson - it allowed for the desegregation of public schools.
A. Plessy v. Ferguson
B. Brown v. Board of Education
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Oct. 29, 1929
What is the Stock Market Crash?
Ronald Reagan appointed the first woman Supreme Court Justice. What is her name?
Barack Obama appointed the first Hispanic to the Supreme Court. What is her name?
First Woman: Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
First Hispanic: Who is Sonia Sotomayor?
These are investigative journalists who exposed corruption and the evils of big business.
A. populists
B. muckrakers
What are muckrakers?
The United States was forced to get involved when Germany took aggressive actions against the United States (ex. sinking of the Lusitania, the Zimmermann Telegram, and unrestricted submarine warfare).
What is World War I?
This theory got the U.S. involved in the Vietnam War. The theory was that if Vietnam adopted Communist policies, the surrounding countries would follow.
What is the Domino Theory/effect?
This 1896 court case created the legal justification for Jim Crow (segregation) laws in the South.
A. Plessy v. Ferguson
B. Brown v. Board of Education
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
August 2005
A. Invasion of Iraq
B. Hurricane Katrina
What is Hurricane Katrina?
Lawyer for the NAACP and the first African American to become a Supreme Court Justice.
A. W.E.B. DuBois
B. Thurgood Marshall
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This is a group of women in the 1920s who challenged the traditional roles of women.
What are the flappers?
The United States was forced to get involved when the Japanese attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Which major conflict did the U.S. join?
What is World War II?
This is what the U.S. did to bypass a Soviet blockade in 1948.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This 1950 court case stated that a separate law school in Texas was unconstitutional. This meant that UT School of Law had to admit this African-American applicant.
A. Tinker v. DesMoines
B. Sweatt v. Painter
What is Sweatt v. Painter?
Sept. 1, 1939
What is Germany's invasion of Poland / Start of WWII?
Name the 3 Congressional Medal of Honor recipients that you learned about in 11th grade US HIST.
Who are Alvin York, Vernon Baker, and Roy Benavidez?
How did political bosses gain votes throughout the Gilded Age?
A. improvements on infrastructure and jobs to immigrants
B. by passing the 19th amendment
What is making improvements to the infrastructure and providing jobs to immigrants?
What is the Global War on Terror?
This was passed to provide financial assistance to Western Europe to help them rebuild after World War II.
A. Truman Doctrine
B. Marshall Plan
What is the Marshall Plan?
The Supreme Court ruled that free speech has limits. It said free speech is not protected from falsely "shouting fire in a crowded theater and causing panic."
The 1st Amendment did not protect words that create a "clear and present danger." This decision became a guide for measuring the limits of free speech.
A. Schenck v. US
B. Korematsu v. US
What is Schenck v. US?
Oct. 4, 1957
What is the launch of Sputnik?
This American President used the phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far" to describe his foreign policy.
The Big Stick diplomacy defined his presidency - this policy allowed the US to obtain total control of the Panama Canal Zone
A. Theodore Roosevelt
B. Franklin Roosevelt
Who is Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt?
This is the name of the scandal that involved Warren G. Harding's cabinet - they illegally sold government land with oil to companies.
A. Watergate Scandal
B. Teapot Dome Scandal
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
What is the name of the war where Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait for its oil reserves? The U.S. and a coalition of troops got involved.
What is the Persian Gulf War?
This event in 1962 was the closest the world ever came to total catastrophe. The United States and the Soviet Union were on the brink of total nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The Supreme Court upheld Roosevelt's order on the grounds that constitutional liberties may be limited in wartime. The majority found that the Executive Order did not show racial prejudice but rather responded to the strategic imperative of keeping the U.S. and particularly the West Coast (the region nearest Japan) secure from invasion.
A. Schenck v. US
B. Korematsu v. US
What is Korematsu v. United States?