Culture
Flourishing of African American culture, art, and music in the 1920s and 1930s.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
Fear that if South Vietnam fell to communism, other east Asian countries would follow.
What is the domino theory?
Right of the president or other high-ranking executive officers to keep information confidential for national security.
What is executive privilege?
Civil Rights leader who advocated non-violence and civil disobedience.
Who was (Martin Luther) King (Jr) or MLK?
A large surge in the birth rate that occurred after soldiers returned from WWII.
What is the baby boom?
Refers to the difference in beliefs, values, and outlooks between different age groups.
What is the generation gap?
Woodrow Wilson's framework for world peace after WWI that included the creation of a League of Nations.
What was the Fourteen Points?
Never ratified, it would have given women all the same rights as men in the Constitution.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment?
Theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Lab.
Who was (J. Robert) Oppenheimer?
Policy to stop the spread of communism by leaving it where it is.
What is containment?
This conservative political organization, founded by Jerry Falwell in 1979, aimed to promote traditional family values and influence politics.
What was the Moral Majority
Massive effort by western nations to feed and supply a city they'd been cut off from by the communists.
What was the Berlin Airlift?
Authorized the US to sell, lease, or lend war materials to any country the president deemed vital to the defense of the US.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
Arkansas governor who fought against desegregation and ordered the National Guard to prevent nine Black students from attending Little Rock High School.
Who was (Orval) Faubus?
Total control over an industry.
What is a monopoly?
A counterculture movement that rejected mainstream materialism for nonconformity, spiritual exploration, jazz, poetry, and a bohemian lifestyle.
What was Beatnik?
Forcible transfer by the imperial Japanese Army of Filipino and American POWs.
What was the Bataan Death March?
Proposed giving aid to countries of war-torn Europe to help them rebuild their economies.
What was the Marshall Plan?
Author of The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed this industry.
What was meatpacking?
Lightning war.
What is blitzkrieg?
These young women of the 1920s shocked society with their short skirts, bobbed hair, and rebellious behavior.
Who were the Flappers
British and French leaders agreed to hand over the western part of Czechoslovakia to Germany.
What was the Apeasement?
Assimilated Native Americans and made them live on reservations.
What was the Dawes Act?
Name the the only President to be elected 4 times
Who was FDR
What was Plessy v. Ferguson