1920's
The largest car company at this time
What is Ford Motor Company
The reason it was called The Great Depression
Its world wide effect
Acts passed to keep the U.S.A. out of W.W. II
What are Neutrality Acts
The reason it was called the Cold War
No direct fighting
Name of M.L.K. Jr.'s famous speech
What is "I Have A Dream"
Most prevalent form of in house entertainment
What is a radio
Buying stock with borrowed money
What is Margin Buying
Turrning point in the war for the Pacific theater
What is Battle of Midway
Gave countries devistated by W.W. II economic aid
What is the Marshall Plan
Brown v. Board of Education overturned this cases ruling
Plessy v. Ferguson
a system for purchasing merchandise in which the buyer takes possession of the merchandise on payment of a deposit and completes the purchase by paying a series of regular payments.
What is an installment plan
Area in Texas and Oklahoma known for its dust storms
What is the Dust Bowl
Policy where trade o no militay goods were open to anyone who paid in cash and brought their own transport method(s).
What is Cash and Carry
N.A.T.O stands for
What is North Atlantic Treaty Organization
A group of African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School to help with desegregation.
What is Little Rock Nine
Rebirth of African American culture during thee 1920's
What is the Harlem Renaissance
Nickname for New Deal reforms / administrations
What is Alphabet Soup
A trade between the U.S.A. and Great Britain where the U.S.A. gave 50 outdated destroyers to Great Britain for military bases
What is Destroyer-Naval Base Deal
event where U.S.A was caught spying on Russia while Russian leader was in the U.S.A.
U-2 incedent
A subculture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, often in opposition to mainstream cultural mores.
What is Counterculture Movement
Act that enforced Prohibition
Volstead Act
The thing that ended the Great Depression
What is Mobilization / W.W. II
Grouping of eight battleships attacked during the Pearl Harbor
What is Battleship Row
Invasion of Cuba from militarily trained Cuban exiles, ended in failure.
What is Bay of Pigs Invasion
1000 young boys and girls walk out of school and march in the cause. Hundreds are thrown in jail and many have fire houses and attack dogs turned on them by Eugene “Bull” Conner’s Public Safety force.
What is The Children’s March