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Is an office used for social security program, along with retirement, disability and survivor’s benefits To qualify you must pay social security benefits
What is Social Security Administration
100
December 7, 1941?“a date that will live in infamy” As a result of US sanctions hindering their expansion campaign, the Japanese attack
What is Pearl Harbor
100
1946 Federal court case that challenged racial segregation in Orange County, California schools The District court held that segregating “Mexican” and “Mexican American” students into different “Mexican” schools was unconstitutional
What is Mendez vs Westminister
100
Outlawed the requirement to pay a poll tax or take a literacy test in order to be eligible to vote
What is Voting Rights Act of 1965
100
1957 – Soviet Union launch of the first spacecraft to orbit the Earth (Sputnik) Led to the creation NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and increased funding for math and science education as the US strived to become and remain technologically superior The first US spacecraft to orbit the Earth was Friendship 7, manned by John Glenn, February 20, 1962
What is Space Race
200
First Lady Appointed by President Truman as a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly Became the first chairperson of the preliminary United Nations Commission on Human Rights
What is Eleanor Roosevelt
200
Created to coordinate all propaganda for domestic and abroad Promoted patriotism Warned of spies Recruited women for war-related work Released news about the war
What is U.S. Office of War
200
With the increase in marriages and general prosperity, the US added millions of new consumers to its population during the post WWII years
What is Baby Boom
200
1962 – USSR places nuclear missiles in Cuba in response to the USA putting missiles in Turkey President John F Kennedy warned Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev that an attack launched on the United States from missiles based in Cuba would be considered an attack from the Soviet Union The US puts a naval blockade around Cuba. Tensions were very high but eventually both sides backed down. In 1963 Kennedy secured a nuclear test ban treaty with the Soviets Direct communication between the White House and the Kremlin was enacted so the nations’ leaders could communicate in times of crisis
What is Cuban Missile Crisis
200
1957 – Soviet Union launch of the first spacecraft to orbit the Earth
What is Sputnik
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As husbands and fathers, sons and brothers shipped off to fight in Europe and the Pacific, millions of women and minorities were able to work in factories, offices, and military bases in roles traditionally reserved for non-minority men in peacetime When the war ended, many women and minorities found it difficult to find or keep their jobs because of the millions of non-minority men that re-entered the work force
What is Increased Opportunity for Women (WWII)
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Following WWII the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as superpowers The US and USSR faced off in an arms race where, for nearly 50 years, they competed to build the biggest and best equipped military forces In the US fear of nuclear attack prompted private citizens to build bomb shelters and worry about nuclear disaster.
What is Arms Race (Cold War)
300
During the Communist blockade of West Berlin, British and US planes flew humanitarian supplies into Berlin for nearly a year
What is Berlin Aircraft
300
In 1947 Secretary of State George Marshall proposed an economic program to contain communism. Gave economic aid to Europe and generated increased trade between the United States and European nations Marshall received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953
What is Marshall Plan
300
1947 – policy of the Truman administration to support Greece and Turkey with military and economic aid to enable them to “survive as a free nation” Several policies of President Harry S Truman were directed at containing Soviet aggression and he persuaded Congress that this was a global struggle of freedom over communism Truman believed that the United States should support “free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures”
What is Truman Doctrine
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Name given to the 1st American Volunteer Group of the Chinese Air Force in the early 1940s They were all former Navy, Marine, or Army pilots They went to China to support the Chinese from the aggressive Japanese
What is Flying Tigers
400
Determined young men who enlisted to become America’s first black military aviators at a time when the US military still practiced racial segregation They participated in over 15,000 sorties and earned over 100 Flying Crosses
What is Tuskegee Airmen
400
* American fear of communist attack * Truman’s dislike of Stalin * USSR’s fear of the American's atomic bomb  * USSR’s dislike of capitalism * USSR’s actions in the Soviet zone of Germany * America’s refusal to share nuclear secrets * USSR’s expansion west into Eastern Europe + broken election promises * USSR’s fear of American attack * USSR’s need for a secure western border * USSR’s aim of spreading world communism
What is Cold War Begin
400
In 1948 Stalin attempted to eliminate involvement of the West in Berlin and enacted the Berlin Blockade. This prompted the United States to join Canada, Iceland, and nine other western European nations in NATO Each member pledged loyalty to the other in case of attack
What is North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
400
1948 US Federal District Court case that decided the separation of Mexican American children based on national origin was illegal Force the integration of children in Texas schools but did allow separate classes for the first grade only, for language deficient or non-English speaking students
What is Delgado vs Bastrop ISD
500
Navajo American Indians were recruited by the military to encode, transmit and decode messages The Navajo language was used to develop a code that was not broken by the enemy
What is Navajo Code Talkers
500
government control of gas, tires, scrap metal, nylon, food stuffs
What is Rationing WWII
500
A political organization founded in 1979 that supported conservative candidates and lobbied for prayer in public schools
What is Moral Majority
500
Group of 18 southern Democrats and one Republican Worked to block the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by relying on a filibuster in the Senate to postpone the legislation as long as possible, hoping that support for the legislation throughout the country would falter
What is Bloc of Southern Democrats
500
1993 A landmark case concerning public school finance and discrimination against students in poor school districts This Texas case led to the decision to redistribute property taxes from wealthy school districts to poorer ones “Robin Hood”
What is Edgewood ISD vs Kirby