1920's
Post-World War I movement in the 1920s from which jazz music and dance emerged.
What is the Jazz Age?
The crisis in the banking industry, business failures, and massive unemployment in the early 1930's.
What is the Great Depression?
Germany and Italy formed a military alliance, Britain and France declared war against them with the US joining their alliance after the bombing.
What is Axis vs Allied powers?
President Truman met with Clement Attlee and Joseph Stalin, and the 3 worked out an agreement over the details of their joint occupation of Germany.
What is the Potsdam Conference?
An African American student from Kansas was prevented from attending an all white elementary school a short walk from her home.
What is Brown v.Board Education?
Low income area in NYC, art district for African Americans who created environments that stimulate their artistic development, expressing their culture.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Also known as "Shantytowns" where homeless began to gather in shelters made of boxes, scrap leather, or other things thrown away.
What are Hoovervilles?
Prime minister of Japan.
Who is Hideki Tojo?
The competition for global power and influence between the United States and Soviet Union.
What is the Cold War?
Refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger and was arrested.
Who is Rosa Parks?
The amendment that granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Success comes through individual effort and private enterprise.
What is rugged individualism?
Expansion of federal government, recruiting soldiers, and expanding economy.
What is mobilizing for War?
Huge corporations run by single families that had monopolized he Japanese economy.
What are the Zaibatsu?
Made it a federal crime to prevent qualified persons from voting.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1957?
Enforced prohibition amendment, gave law enforcement the authority to go after anyone breaking prohibition.
What is the Volstead Act?
Prices go up and the market is healthy. Prices are down, there is a downward price spiral.
What is Bull Market Vs Bear Market?
300,000+ Mexican-Americans involved in the war, only 17 earned medals of honor.
What are the Zoot-Suit Riots?
Created the civilian controlled Atomic Energy Commission.
What is the Atomic Energy Act?
Mexican American soldier who was killed in WWII and was refused the right to have a burial at a chapel due to his race.
Who is Felix Longoria?
Tax cuts, increase in availability of elect icity, increase in efficiency of factories
What are causes of the economic boom?
The idea to reform the supreme court and asking congress the power for Roosevelt to appoint one new justice for each of those aged 70+, up to 6 justices.
What is Court Packing?
Effort of a group of scientists who had been working to create the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
"It must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation(conquest) by armed minorities or by outside pressures."
What is the Truman Doctrine?
For nearly 3 weeks, members of the Arkansas National Guard prevented these African American students from entering a school/
Who are the Little Rock Nine?