"I'm Ready!"
During World War I, Germany promised to warn cruise ships before their u-boats would search and destroy.
What is the Sussex pledge?
All natural born or naturalized people are full citizens and no state can remove or abridge their rights. Guaranteed citizenship for all former slaves.
What is the 14th Amendment?
According to the _______ Corollary, the US would become the "policeman" of the Caribbean and intervene to protect American interests in Latin America.
Who is (Teddy) Roosevelt?
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps? (aka CCC)
Students rode Greyhound buses to protest interstate segregation.
What are the "freedom rides"?
This Chicago OG earned millions during Prohibition by smuggling alcohol into the U.S.
Who is Al Capone?
This New Deal program protected your money in the bank.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation? aka FDIC?
During the (first) Red Scare, these two immigrants were falsely convicted of robbery and murder. They were later executed in Massachusetts.
Who are Sacco & Vanzetti?
The US would send weapons to any nation whose defense was vital to American security during WW II (Chinese resistance, French resistance, England & Soviet Union)
What is the Lend Lease Act?
States cannot deny citizens the right to vote on grounds of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude"
What is the 15th Amendment?
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
The bombing of London by Germany during World War II.
What is the Blitz?
This Russian led the Communist overthrow of Czar Nicholas II in 1917.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
Germany proposed an alliance with Mexico, encouraging Mexico to attack the U.S.; in return, Mexico would win back Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.
What is the Zimmerman Note?
Women were granted the right to vote across the entire country.
What is the 19th Amendment?
The government agency, which provided medical care, education, employment, and reuniting of lost family members, helped African Americans settle after the Civil War
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
President Harry Truman fired this U.S. general after he criticized Truman for not allowing him to invade China after he crushed the North Korean army.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
During the Great Depression, World War I veterans protested and demanded their retirement money be paid early. President Hoover sicced the police on these veterans who were known collectively as this.
What is the Bonus Army?
Egyptian leader who nationalized (government seizure) the Suez Canal, sparking a war with England, France & Israel in 1956.
Who is Gamal Abdel Nasser?
The US loaned invested money in central & south America to benefit American commercial interests and help put down peasant uprisings to keep American-friendly dictators in power.
1400 CIA-trained Cuban exiles planned to overthrow Fidel Castro.
What is the Bay of Pigs (Invasion?)
Aka debt slavery, landowners provided land, seeds and tools to African American farmers who couldn't afford to pay down the debt and were forced to work the land for free to the white landowner.
What is sharecropping?
This Tennessee biology teacher was arrested in 1924 for (illegally) teaching evolution in a public high school. His conviction was eventually overturned by a federal court.
Who is John Scopes?
Congress passed this law which outlawed literacy tests and the grandfather clause.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
A government system characterized by authoritarian rule, extreme nationalism, the belief in racial superiority and suppression of civil liberties.
What is Fascism (also acceptable: Nazism)?