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| Roosevelt's campaign promise to combat the Great Depression. The phrase became a catchword for his ambitious plan of economic programs. |
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| The GM employees help a sit-down strike (new kind of strike). it forced ford to deal with unions |
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| Work process administration. Put in place by roosevelt in order to create jobs.. bridges, roads, railroads etc. |
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| civilian conservation corps a public work relief program for unemployed men ages 18-25 providing unskilled manual labor related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural areas of US. |
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| roosevelt named 4 freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from fear, freedom from want |
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| baggy coat and pants with tight bottoms at the ankles and wide at the legs, often chain that hung from the pants. African-Americans style of dress in the 1930's later adopted by Italian-Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Filipino Americans. Signified protest against European-Americans. |
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| Government propaganda, cultural icon if you will, that represented American women who worked in the factories during WWII. Could be seen as a feminist icon. |
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| Japanese-American Internment |
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| After pearl harbor attacks and up until the end of WWII, over 112,000 Japanese living on the west coast of the US were put into internment camps. 2/3 of these were American citizens. |
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| Order issued by Roosevelt telling War Department to relocate 112,000 Japanese in America. |
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| Pushed for allowing blacks in the military |
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| Name of the plane that dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima. Later became a term used for bombers, as well as other metaphors. |
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| Desegregation of US military |
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| Truman desegregated the US military during he Korean war, before the civil rights movement. |
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| Contains communism and keeps it out of the US. |
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| Economic recovery effort for Europe after WWII. But the Europeans were told not to associate with the soviets or else America would abort the Marshall Plan. |
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| Serviceman's Readjustment Act (1944) education and housing loans for veterans. |
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| Military-Industrial complex |
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| Federal Government and big businesses shift to help in war effort. |
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| Joe McCarthy: Wisconsin representative that accused many of being communists during the Korean/Cold Wars. Those accused of being communists would often be "blacklisted." |
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| 1950's/60's counter-culture movement in Greenwich Village and San Francisco. People like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsburg. |
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| Julius and Ethel Rosenburg |
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| in 1951, convicted of being spies and selling nuclear weapon info to soviets. They were accused and later found to be innocent. |
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| Brown v. Board of Education |
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| Desegregated the Southern United States' schools. Separate schooling for blacks and whites was unconstitutional. |
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| Uncle of Emmit Till, pointed out the white men who killed his nephew. No black man had ever accused a white man of murder before. |
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| 14 year old boy from Chicago who was killed while visiting relatives in Mississippi after he supposedly said "bye baby" to a white man's wife. Men were both tried and acquitted of all charges |
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| Black comedian turned civil rights activist in the 1960's. |
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| started after Rosa Parks denied her seat to a white person on December 1st 1955 Blacks boycotted the bus system for a year. |
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| after WWII, spending became a virtue and more popular belief. |
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| like "suburbia" a term used to descrive the movement of families from the cities to the new suburbs. |
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| A popular song about leittown, referring to the sameness of all the houses/people in the new suburbs. |
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| Video in classes telling what to di if a nuclear weapon was fired at the US. Duck and cover... |
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| A movie in the early 60's first movie made that laughed about nuclear war. Peter Sellers stars as the 4 main characters. |
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| Lyndon B. Johnson's campaign commercial that instilled the fear of nuclear war into the American people. |
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| The nine students that attended Little Rock's Cntral High School after the students were desegregated in the south. National Guard was called up to protect the black students |
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| African Americans going to "white" restaurants in the south. Picture of the white students pouring soda on the blacks' heads. |
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| Record company that popularized rock music signing artists like Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, BB King, Buddy guy, etc. |
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| Played an important role in the emergence of rock and roll. Producer, label owner, and talent scout. |
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| Radio station that introduced rock music to popular culture in Memphis. |
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| hosted "Red, Hot, and Blue" a D.J that became one of the blues greatest. |
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| Mr. B.B King's radio show. |
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| Stax records, established in 1957 as Satellite Records and changed to Stax in 1961. Known for its contribution of soul music to modern culture. |
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| Early 60's when Cuba and the US were pointing nuclear missiles at each other. Kennedy was ready to press the button. |
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| Mutual Assured Destruction MAD |
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| Both sides knew that if one country fires, the other will retaliate, and so on. |
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| Led by MLK, some 250,000 Americans Marched on Washington for Civil rights. 75-80% were blacks, the rest being whites and other minorities. |
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| Northern college students went down to mississippi in June of 64 to register blacks to vote |
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| enacted July 2 64, was a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women, including racial segregation. ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in the workplace and by facilities that served the general public. "(public accommodations)" |
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| Voting rights act of 1965 |
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| outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African americans in the US |
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| White supremacy organization in the 1950s. Considered a little more tactful than the KKK. |
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| Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
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| emerged from a series of student meetings led by Ella Baker held at Shaw University in Raleigh NC in April 1960. SNCC played a major role in the sit-ins and freedom rides, march on washington, Mississippi Freedom summer, and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party over the next few years. |
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| Black civil rights activist that believed in fighting violence with violence. Believed blacks and whites should remain separated. |
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| published book written by Betty Friedan. It ignited the contemporary women's movement in 1963 and as a result, permanently transformed the social fabric of the US and countries around the world. |
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| Students chose the name Panther, and took the logo of the Black Panthers (almost identical to their logo) in the 1960's |
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| The movement was prominent in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Emphasized racial pride and the creation of black political and cultural institutions to nurture and promote black collective interests and advance black values. |
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| 1968 uprisings in every major Vietnamese city. The purpose if the T O was to strike military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam and to spark a general uprising among the population that would then topple the saigon government, thus ending the war in a single blow. |
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| The My Lai Massacre was the mas murder conducted by a unit of the US Army on mar 16 1968 of 347-504 unarmed citizens in South Vietnam all of which were civilians and most of which were women and children and elderly people. |
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| Shooting that occurred at Kent State University in the city of Kent, Ohio. Guardsmen of the Ohio National Guard fired 67 rounds in 13 seconds killing four and wounding nine. |
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| A group of student protesters were confronted by city and state police. killed two students and injuring twelve. |
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| American Bar in NYC and the site of the stonewall riots of 1969 which are widely considered the start of the modern gay liberation movement. |
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| American Bar in NYC and the site of the stonewall riots of 1969 which are widely considered the start of the modern gay liberation movement. |
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| Students for a Democratic Society |
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| Student activist movement in the US that was one of the main iconic representations of the country's New Left. The organization developed and expanded rapidly in the mid-1960's before dissolving at its last convention in 1969. |
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