Interwar Years
The 1920 Election was the first in which this group of Americans voted nationwide.
What are women?
This character highlighted new roles for women during WWII.
What is Rosie the Riveter?
The Soviet blockade and Allied airlift to this city was an early point of conflict during the Cold War.
What is Berlin?
This major event increased the momentum of the Civil Rights movement by highlighting the unfairness of racism.
What is World War II?
The government uses these to protect businesses from foreign competition.
What are tariffs?
This is the name for the scandal which posthumously ruined Warren G. Harding's presidential legacy.
This 1944 meeting guaranteed the importance of the U.S. dollar after WWII and created a system of economic interdependence to avoid future wars.
This president used neoliberal economic policies to defeat the Soviet Union.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
Under Dwight D. Eisenhower, this 1954 Supreme Court decision declared school segregation unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This term refers to FDR's 1930s economic policies after the failure of laissez-faire.
What is Keynesian Economics?
This group of WWI veterans protested against the government before being brutally suppressed.
Who was the Bonus Army?
This was FDR's order leading to the internment of Japanese-Americans.
What is Executive Order 9066?
This president is most responsible for U.S. involvement in Vietnam during the 1960s.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
Under pressure from SCLC, Lyndon Johnson passed legislation in 1965 to guarantee African-Americans the protection of this civil right.
What is the right to vote?
This is the year in which the Soviet Union collapsed into 15 independent countries.
What is 1991?
This man ran for president in 1920 from prison.
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
This term refers to the generation of Americans who were born after WWII and who enjoyed "post-war prosperity."
Who are baby boomers?
This president altered the landscape of the Cold War by fostering division between Russia and China.
Who is Richard Nixon?
MLK Jr.'s 1963 "March on Washington" culminated in this famous speech.
What is the "I Have a Dream" speech?
The Watergate break-in which brought down the Nixon presidency initially targeted this group in the 1972 election.
Who is the Democratic National Convention (DNC)?
This term refers to shantytowns which developed during the worst parts of the Great Depression.
What are Hoovervilles?
After WWII, the U.S. implemented this plan to rebuild Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This president first advanced the policy of containment via involvement in the Korean War.
Who is Harry Truman?
Mohammad Ali and Malcolm X were members of this controversial movement which blended religion and civil rights.
What is the Nation of Islam?
This refers to Ronald Reagan's futuristic proposal for America's Cold War defense strategy.
What is Star Wars?