Unit 6
What are installment Plans
a payment plan that allows consumers to make payments at set intervals over a period of time until debt is paid.
"Cash and Carry"
Permitted trade with fighting nations in nonmilitary goods as long as those nations paid cash and transported the cargo themselves.
Identify the three Goals of the Civil Rights Movement
- Bring an end to segregation
- Establish a racial equality
- Establish the protections in the right to vote
The Supreme Court's decision to legalize abortion
Roe v. Wade
African American movement seeking unity and self-reliance.
The Black Power Movement
An intense fear of communism and other politically radical ideas during the 1920s
1941 law that authorized the President to aid any nation whose defense he believed was vital to American security.
The Lend Lease Act
In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court declared that the "separate but equal" doctrine was unconstitutional and could not be applied to public education. This ruling would officially overturn Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
1968 attack by Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces throughout South Vietnam
The Tet Offensive
Minister of the nation of Islam who sought to spread the ideas of black nationalism, the complete separation of white and black society.
Malcolm X
A result of bombings in several American cities in June 1919, the justice Department set out to eliminate this "clear and present danger" to the country.
Allied invasion, air, and sea, across the English Channel to the coast of France (Normandy). The allied successful invasion now provided a western front and a European base from which to launch an assault on Germany.
D- Day
This event was sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks for refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger.
The Bus Boycott
gave the president the authority to "take all necessary measures to repeal any armed attack against the United States and to prevent further aggression"
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Black Activist active in 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. A leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther.
Stokely Carmichael
This event highlighted the conflict of Science vs. Religion
The Scopes Trial
Truman believed an invasion of Japan could cost millions of American casualties. Therefore Truman decided to __________________.
Drop the Atomic Bomb
Law aimed at reducing the barriers that prevented African Americans from voting, in part by increasing the federal government's authority to register to vote.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Who were the three big allies in World War II
The United States
Great Britain
The Soviet Union
Established in 1966, a new militant political party was formed by activists Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, they wanted African Americans to lead their own communities.
The Black Panther Party
Term used to describe Franklin Roosevelt's "relief, recovery, and reform" programs designed to combat the Great Depression.
The New Deal
The prejudice, hatred of, or discrimination against Jews
Anti- Semitism
A movement to create separate institutions for people of African descent in societies historically dominated by whites, particularly in the United States.
Black Separatism
Unable to establish a footing to fight in Europe, the allies decided to invade _______________.
The invasion of North Africa
What's the difference between Hawks and Doves?
Hawks - Pro-War Americans
Doves - Anti-War Americans