The Not-So-Great Depression
This practice allowed investors to buy stocks with borrowed money.
Margin Buying
The attack that ended American neutrality in WWII.
Pearl Harbor
The American policy of preventing the spread of communism.
Containment
Supreme Court case that declared school segregation unconstitutional.
Brown v. Board of Education
Women hoped they would be given more rights and access in society with the passing of what 1964 Act.
Civil Rights Act (usually more closely associated with African Americans, but opened the door for more social groups)
FDR's collection of programs to combat the Great Depression.
New Deal
This agreement forced Germany to accept blame for World War I.
Treaty of Versailles
Economic aid to rebuild Europe after WWII. Signed by Pres. Truman
Marshall Plan
Arkansas city where Eisenhower sent federal troops to enforce integration.
Little Rock
Who was president during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
JFK
This New Deal agency put young men to work planting trees and building parks.
CCC
Britain and France followed this policy when dealing with Hitler before WWII.
Appeasement
Military alliance formed by the United States and Western Europe.
NATO
Result of Plessy V. Ferguson
Separate but equal was constitutional
Why were many Americans against the war in Vietnam?
Any of the following: Foreign civil war, draft, unclear end goal, stalemate, high loss of life and injury rates, increased media coverage showing what war really looks like
This government agency was created to regulate the stock market.
SEC
This international organization failed to stop aggression in the 1930s.
League of Nations
The belief that one nation falling to communism would cause others to follow.
Domino Theory
1964 law that outlawed discrimination in public places.
Civil Rights Act
The imaginary line dividing Europe into communist vs. non communist EU.
The Iron Curtain
Many historians identify this event in October 1929 as the symbolic start of the Great Depression.
Stock Market Crash
The invasion of this country in 1939 officially began World War II.
Poland
The 1973 law intended to limit presidential war-making powers after US involvement in Vietnam.
War Powers Resolution
1965 law that prohibited literacy tests and protected voting rights.
Voting Rights Act
This marks the official end to the Cold War in 1991.
The tearing down of the Berlin Wall