World War II
This FDR speech involved him wanting the U.S. to protect speech, religion, from want, and from fear.
What is Four Freedoms speech?
This is the alliance that the U.S. formed to contain the spread of communism.
What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
This disease was cured during the 1950s with vaccine. The disease would put people in wheelchairs and even killed FDR.
What is polio?
This is the Supreme Court case that desegregated public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This program, by LBJ, sought to help elderly people with health insurance.
What is Medicare?
This is the naval base that got attacked by Japan that led the U.S. to enter, officially, World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This is the policy of containment where the U.S. sought to rebuild Western Europe following World War II by giving money to those countries.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This caused an increase in childcare goods and schools following World War II.
What is the Baby Boom?
This person, who refused to give up her seat on a bus, kickstarted the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Who is Lyndon Johnson?
This is the all Japanese-Americans unit that fought in Italy while their families were being forced into internment camps.
What is the 442nd Regimental Combat team?
This is the phrase associated with the Red Scare where Americans were fearful of communists in their midst.
What is McCarthyism?
What is the GI Bill?
This school in TN trained civil rights leaders and come up with strategies to end racism.
What is the Highlander Folk School?
What is Supply Side or Reaganomics economics?
What is rationing, bond drives, propaganda, urbanization, Bracero program, conversion of factories for war time, and location of POW in TN?
This war involved the North (communist) invading the South (capitalist) and the U.S. helping out until the war ended at the 38th parallel.
What is the Korean War?
List two effects of the Interstate Highway Act.
What are reliance foreign oil, suburbanization, hotel industry, fast food industry, and rise of the automobile?
This congressional act ended literacy tests and helped more Blacks vote.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This event led to George W. Bush sending troops to Afghanistan to kill Osama Bin Laden.
What is the 9-11 terrorist attacks?
This person from TN helped found the United Nations at the end of World War II.
Who is Cordell Hull?
This is the closest the Cold War came to becoming "hot" when the U.S. prevented the Soviets from establishing a missile base in this island nation.
What is Cuba?
This invention impacted U.S. home life, politics, and economy, including the 1960 presidential election as well as the Daisy ad that LBJ used in 1964.
What is television?
This amendment got rid of poll taxes.
What is the 24th Amendment?
This is the first woman Supreme Court justice.
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?