Unit 7: WWII
Limiting the amount of consumer goods on the home front during WWII.
What is rationing?
Nickname for the generation of Americans born during or shortly after WWII.
Who are the baby boomers?
Who is the Black Panther Party?
By August of 1945, the decision made by President Truman to use nuclear weapons to end the war in the Pacific resulted in this WWII turning point moment.
What is the bombing of Hiroshima/ Nagasaki?
The policy and ultimate goal of the United States as the Cold War began.
What is containment of communism?
Signed by Hitler and Stalin, this agreement essentially gave the "green light" for the German invasion of Poland that started WWII.
What is the 1939 Non-aggression Pact?
Identify any TWO Cold War Ideologies of the United States and Western Europe (political, economic, social/cultural)
What are democracy, capitalism, individualism and freedom?
Segregation by custom or practice, not enforced by specific laws.
What is de facto segregation?
This was the first major piece of Civil Rights legislation passed to end segregation in all public accommodations.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
The politician most known for spreading fear and false accusations of communism among Americans in the 1950s.
Who is Senator Joseph McCarthy?
Meant to symbolize the fight for freedom abroad as well as at home, this became the rallying cry for change that impacted many African Americans during WWII.
What is the Double V campaign?
Identify any TWO Cold War ideologies of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (political, economic, social/cultural)
What are totalitarianism, socialism, equality and collectivism?
In 1955, this was the first major success using civil disobedience to integrate the public transportation system.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
What is NATO? (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
The doctrine (idea) overturned in the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education.
What is "separate but equal?"
The United States ended any appearance of neutrality when it signed this document that established mutual goals for the Allied powers during and after WWII.
What is the Atlantic Charter?
Similar to the 1920s, the 1950s was an era of growing fear and paranoia toward "outside threats" to American life (especially communism!) This is known in both decades as
What is the Red Scare? (1950s: second Red Scare)
Membership in this organization came to symbolize the power and influence of young people on the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is SNCC (student non violent coordinating committee)?
In 1957 the Soviets launched this satellite into orbit, terrifying Americans and intensifying the "space race" between the two superpowers.
What is Sputnik?
Members of the counterculture of the 1950s, considered to be the forefathers of the 1960s hippie movement.
Who are the Beatniks?
After the attack on Pearl Harbor President Roosevelt approved the military relocation and internment of Japanese Americans when he signed this.
What is Executive Order 9066?
This is the United States program that gave economic aid to Greece and Turkey following WWII in an effort to contain communism in the region.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The group of politicians that was tasked with investigating the cause of increased urban violence in the 1960s.
What is the Kerner Commission?
The peak of tensions between the United States and Soviet Union came as a result of this 1960s turning point moment.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Put the following Presidential administrations in chronological order from earliest to latest: Truman, Kennedy, Eisenhower, F. Roosevelt.
What is F. Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy?