U.S. Enters WW2
The U.S. takes this foreign policy at the START of World War 2
What is neutralrality
Who were the Superpowers that emerged at the end of WW2?
U.S. and Soviet Union
What was the "Cold War"?
What is the name of the Civil Rights leader who promoted non-violence, civil disobedience, and held a march on Washington in 1963
Who is Martin Luther King, jr.
Who was the President that decided to drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan
Who is Harry S. Truman?
This is the name used to describe all women who joined the workforce in predominantly male jobs such as factory workers, creating weapons and aircraft
What is "Rosie the Riveter"
Who was on Trial during the Nuremburg Trials?
The Nazis who were being tried for Crimes against humanity
This is the name used to for the paranoia that existed in the U.S. during the 1950s, whereby the House Un-American Activities Committee attempted to identify Communists in the government and elsewhere in American society
What is McCarthyism?
Legislation that prohibits segregation and discrimination in public institutions as well as private places of accommodation
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
What did the "Freedom Riders" do to test the Supreme Court's ruling that banned segregation on interstate buses?
This event brought the U.S. directly into WW2
What is the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
This is the peace-keeping organization that was created after World War 2. Remember that the peace-keeping organization that was created after WW1 did not work.
The United Nations
Which (1 word) foreign policy term would be most appropriate explain the United States goal during the Cold War?
Containment
The name of the law that outlawed Poll Taxes, Literacy Tests, and discrimination in voting
What is the Voting Rights Act
Britain and France used "Appeasement" in the 1930's when Germany invaded Austria& Czecholslavakia and was getting hungry for control of more of Europe.
What is "Appeasment"?
The U.S. used this program to let other countries borrow war supplies if needed.
What is the Lend-Lease Act
Give one result of the end of WW2
2 Superpowers emerged; the Cold War started; United Nations created; Nuremburg Trials; U.S. economy was strong;
his was how the U.S. responded when the Soviet's blockaded Western Berlin (which is located in Eastern Germany), so that no supplies could get into the people who were NOT communists
What is the "Berlin Blockade"?
Where did Civil Rights activists march when they were seeking the Right to Vote?
Selma March (to Montgomery)
This was the event where the Allied troops left from England and stormed the beaches of Normandy to push back the Nazis out of France.
D-day
Name of the Supreme Court Case that allowed Japanese Internment to continue
What is Korematsu vs. United States
During WW2 American citizens used coupon books to limit their purchases of scares goods like butter and gasoline. This is called?
Rationing
This was the term used to describe the division between democratic Western Europe and communist Eastern Europe.
The Iron Curtain
Where did President Eisenhower send troopsto assist in desegregating schools
Where is Little Rock, Arkansas?
What Supreme court case said that "Separate but Equal" was OK? What Supreme Court Case made segregated schools illegal?
Need 2 answers
Plessy vs. Ferguson
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Brown vs. Board of Education, Topeka, KS