Unit 6
This area in New York City was known to be a hotbed for Black art, poetry, and music.
Harlem
This was racial conflict between Caucasian servicemen and Mexican youths in 1940s Los Angeles.
Zoot Suit Riot
A strategic alliance of western democracies that aimed to curb the growing power of the Soviet Union and its allies in Europe. It still exists today.
N.A.T.O
A black civil rights organization that was founded in the early 1900s and continued to advocate for change during the 1950s-60s Civil Rights Movement.
N.A.A.C.P
The US has supported Israel due to their shared ________ values.
Democratic
The Public Works Administration and the Works Progress Administration were associated with President Franklin D. Roosevelt's _______.
New Deal
The name for American-born Japanese people
Nisei
Funds were provided to Greece and Turkey through this presidential policy in order to limit the influence of communism in the region.
The Truman Doctrine
The Reagan administration's slogan for combatting drug use
"Just Say No"
The name given to shanty towns that mocked a US president's handling of the Great Depression.
Hoovervilles
Prior to fighting Japan directly during World War II, the United States used this strategy to limit its access to oil.
Embargo
The United States' speculation that once an Asian country became communist, others in the region would follow suit.
The Domino Theory
President Nixon's policy to withdrawal troops from Vietnam.
Vietnamization
The name of the religious group that squared off with the US government during the Waco Siege
These poor Italian immigrant anarchists were found guilty for murder in a controversial trial during the 1920s.
Sacco and Vanzetti
Before the US got involved in World War II, they supplied weapons to Great Britain and the Soviet Union through this policy.
Lend-Lease Act
When the CIA trained Cuban nationals to take down the communist government in Cuba, but failed leading to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
Ronald Reagan's proposed defense program that would protect the US from Soviet missile attacks.
Strategic Defensive Initiative or "Star Wars"
The US organization that initially handled the Waco Siege
ATF
This process in which investors borrow money using stock as collateral, and use the loan to buy even more stocks was one of the factors that caused the Stock Market Crash of 1929 when many investors tried to rapidly sell their low value stocks.
Buying stocks on the Margin or Margin Trading.
This declaration by President Roosevelt set goals for the United States and Great Britain for after World War II and can be argued to set the tone for Cold War tensions.
The Atlantic Charter
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of more openness in the Soviet government and dissemination of information which lead to the end of the Cold War.
Glasnost
A 1962 book that helped promote the environmentalism movement of the 1960s-70s.
The Silent Spring
This 1970s policy helped to increase research for drugs and treatment of drug abuse.
Controlled Substances Act