Great Depression
& New Deal
& New Deal
FDR's plan for government programs to help end the Great Depression
What is the New Deal?
What is The Manhattan Project?
The metaphorical divide between the American controlled west and Soviet controlled east.
What is the Iron Curtain?
The Supreme Court case that led to the decision ending segregation because "separate is inherently unequal."
What is Brown v Board of Education?
4 Students were killed and 9 injured when the National Guard opened fire on protestors.
What is the Kent State Shooting?
Dust storm that swept across the Great Plains blowing away the top soil.
What is a Black Blizzard?
American policy of avoiding war by not getting involved in international issues.
What is isolationism?
Government program that offered free education and loans to soldiers returning from the war.
What is The GI Bill?
Law that required equal access and funding for education and educational programs for women.
What is Title IX?
The law passed by Congress giving the President the war power to use the military in Vietnam to prevent future attacks.
What is The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
Borrowing money in order to purchase stocks.
What is buying on the margin?
The act of giving someone what they want in order to avoid a conflict/fight.
What is appeasement?
The policy of being willing to go to the edge of nuclear war to get an opponent to back down.
What is Brinksmanship?
The re-drawing of voting boundaries to disenfranchise a specific group.
What is Gerrymandering?
The nickname for communist enemy fighters during the Vietnam War.
What is Viet Cong (or VC)?
Depression era shack-town filled with the evicted and homeless.
What is a Hooverville?
Ship filled with Jewish refugees that the United States refused to allow to come to the United States.
What is The St Louis?
The Soviet-led military alliance formed in response to NATO.
What is The Warsaw Pact?
Where Martin Luther King Jr stated that was a moral responsibility to fight unjust laws and that "Justice delayed is Justice denied".
What is the Letter from a Birmingham Jail?
The American policy of training South Vietnamese soldiers to take over the fighting of the war.
What is Vietnamization?
Government program designed to ensure trust in the banking system and stop bank runs by insuring all bank accounts up to $2,500.
What is the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)?
A patriotic loan by a citizen to its government to help pay for the cost of the war.
What is a War Bond?
Making accusations without evidence.
The practice of denying or limiting loans, insurance, and other financial services to residents of specific neighborhoods, usually based on race.
What is Redlining?
The difference between what the government was saying abut Vietnam and the reality of the war.
What is the credibility gap?