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100

state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation

Jim Crow Laws

100

The vast majority of the world's countries, including all of the great powers, fought as part of two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis

World War II

100

a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

Communism

100

direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War

Cuban Missile Crisis

100

a spike in birth rates after WWII

baby  boom

200

journalists and novelists of the Progressive Era who sought to expose corruption in big business and government

Muckrakers

200

debt instruments that are issued by governments to finance military operations and production in wartime.

War Bonds

200

a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1939

New Deal

200

the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries

Domino Theory

200

supreme court ruled that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional 

Brown v. Board of Education

300

a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop

Sharecropping

300


The order that led to the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.

Executive Order 9066

300

the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.

Nativism

300

arms race competition for supremacy in _______ warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies

Nuclear Race

300

event sparked by the arrest of rosa park and was led by MLK

montgomery bus boycott

400

a type of building shared by multiple dwellings, typically with flats or apartments on each floor and with shared entrance stairway access

Tenement Housing

400

artifical waterway that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean

Panama Canal

400
October 29, 1929. On this date, share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed, becoming a pivotal factor in the emergence of the Great Depression.


Black Tuesday

400

____ was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and rebel activities on the part of private citizens, public employees and organizations suspected of having Communist ties. Citizens suspected of having ties to the communist party would be tried in a court of law.

HUAC

400

black power political and criminal organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P.

black panthers 

500


authorized an income tax, provided for the direct election of senators, extended the vote to women, and prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.



Progressive Amendments

500

United States Navy ship that sank in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898, contributing to the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in April

U.S.S. Maine

500

borrowing money from a broker to purchase stock.

Buying on Margin

500

proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe.

truman doctrine/marshall plan

500

rapid increase in the production and availability of consumer, an increase in family income and decrease in poverty

Age of Affluence