Industrialization
State and local laws that enforced segregation in the Southern United States.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Food getting planted at private residences and public parks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Germany during World War I and World War II.
What is Victory Gardens?
Social and economic order that encourages the acquisition of goods and services in ever-increasing amounts.
What is Consumerism?
Created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having fascist or communist ties.
What is HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)?
A movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West occurred between 1916 and 1970.
What is the Great Migration?
Significant activity is undertaken by a state to influence something not directly under its control. It is an act of military, economical intervention that is aimed for international order, or for the benefit of the country.
What is Interventionism?
Also known as the Great Crash, was a huge American stock market crash that occurred in the autumn of 1929. It started in September and ended late in October when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed.
What is Black Tuesday?
The President established that the United States would provide political, military ,and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
A type of farming in which families rent small plots of land from a landowner in return for a portion of their crop, to be given to the landowner at the end of each year.
What is sharecropping?
Laws passed in 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1939 to limit U.S. involvement in future wars. They were based on the widespread disillusionment with World War I in the early 1930s and the belief that the United States had been drawn into the War through loans and trade with the Allies.
What is Neutrality Acts?
A shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States. They were named after President Hoover during the onset of the Depression and were widely blamed for it.
What are Hoovervilles?
Caused by the leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Was an American labor federation active in the late 19th century, especially the 1880s. It operated in the United States as well in Canada and had chapters also in Great Britain and Australia.
What are the Knights of Labor?
A United States presidential executive order was signed and issued during World War II by the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942.
What is Executive Order 9066?
These two Italian immigrant anarchists were found guilty of first-degree murder and were convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster during April 15, 1920, armed robbery of the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
A 20th-century competition between two Cold War adversaries, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), to achieve superior spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the ballistic missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations following World War II.
What is the Space race
The aftermath of a bombing happened at a labor demonstration on May 4, 1886, in Chicago. It began as a peaceful rally in support of workers striking for an eight-hour workday.
What is known as the Haymarket Riot?
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office determined to improve relations with the nations of Central and South America. Under his leadership, the United States emphasized cooperation and trade rather than military force to maintain stability in the hemisphere.
What is the Good Neighbor Policy?
The decade in Western society and culture. It was a period of economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in the United States and Europe, particularly in major cities such as Berlin, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York City, Paris, and Sydney.
What is the roaring twenties?
A political boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. The term symbolizes the efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the West and its allied states.
What is the Iron Curtain?