The Second World War
This was an alliance was made up of Germany, Italy, and Japan.
What is the Axis Powers?
This was a court case that legalized abortion in the United States.
What is Roe v. Wade?
This was a showdown between the U.S. and the the Soviet Union and Cuba over Cuba having Soviet Nukes in their country that were in range of the United States.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Was a name coined by President Johnson referring to his vision of an America without poverty or racial injustice.
What is the Great Society?
After the September 11 attack, Congress passed this controversial act which gave law enforcement broader powers to monitor suspected terrorists and detain or deport aliens who were associated with terrorist groups.
What is the Patriot Act?
This is the act of giving into the demands of aggressors used by Great Britain and France to make Germany happy. It was seen as better than going to war.
What is Appeasement?
This was group created in Oakland, California. They became the symbol of young militant African Americans and often had violent confrontations with whites and the police.
Who are the Black Panthers?
This was a list of persons who were not hired because of suspected Communist ties.
What is a Blacklist?
This is the government practice of borrowing money in order to spend more than it received from taxes.
What is Deficit Spending?
This is what the United States became after the decrease in manufacturing in the U.S. and the increase in jobs that provide services rather than creating a product.
What is Service Economy?
This was when American citizens cut back on purchasing everyday goods like butter and rubber, as those resources went to our troops fighting the war.
What is rationing?
A way to help veterans who were returning from war. These benefits included up to a year of unemployment pay, financial aid for college, or a loan to buy a house or start a business.
What is the G.I. Bill of Rights?
This was a wave of widespread fear of suspected communists and radicals thought to be plotting revolution in the United States in the 1920’s and then again in the 1950’s.
What is the Red Scare?
A political ideology that generally favors government intervention to help the needy and create change to provide equality.
What is Liberal?
This is a terrorist group that is anti-western and is responsible for the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center in New York City.
What is al Qadea?
This was the equivalent of economic warfare the US used during the war. The President sold weapons, ammo, supplies, and other resources to our allies, with the understanding that when the war was over, they'd pay us back.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
This was a dynamic expression in the 50s and 60s in which people adopted values that ran opposite to mainstream beliefs and cultures.
What is counterculture?
A policy used by President Nixon as a means to ease tensions between the U.S and Soviet countries. Some of his strategies included ping pong diplomacy, Vietnamization, and SALT.
What is Detente?
A political ideology that generally favors less government action and believes in allowing the free market, private organizations, and individuals to fix the problems of society.
What is Conservative?
An agency created after the September 11th terrorist attack which coordinated domestic security matters among a number of federal, state, and local agencies.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
An organization of over 50 countries that was set up after World War II with the goal of promoting peace, setting up basic living standards, and to try to prevent future wars and conflicts. It is so successful that almost every country in the world is now a member.
What is the United Nations?
This was a law passed by the Johnson administration, that outlawed discrimination in voting, education, and public accommodations.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
A village in Vietnam with a strong Vietcong presence where U.S soldiers began shooting and killing unarmed civilians resulting between 4-5 hundred Vietnamese deaths.
What is My Lai?
A 1972 scandal dealing with burglars breaking into the Democratic Party Headquarters who were caught and eventually were tied to the Republican Party and top Nixon administration officials. This eventually led to President Nixon's resignation.
What is the Watergate Scandal?
This is the process by which national economies, politics, cultures, and societies become integrated with those of other nations around the world.
What is Globalization?