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| changing role of women in 1920s |
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| cut their hair, smoked, drank, wore loose fitting revealing clothes, they were called Flappers |
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| reasons for economic growth of 1920s |
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| increased spending, rise in productivity |
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| John Steinbeck, portraying plight of migrant workers in California during Great Depression and Dust Bowl |
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| severe drought and over farming in the great plains in the 1930s |
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| president during Great Depression, won president 4 times |
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| FDR's plan to end Great Depression, relief, recovery, and reform for the American people |
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| FDIC- federal deposit insurance corporation |
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| guarantees individual deposits, New Deal Programs |
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| SEC- Securities and Exchange Commission |
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| New Deal Program, required investment firms to provide accurate information on their finances |
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| TVA Tennessee Valley Authority |
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| New Deal Programs, built dams and created cheap electricity in the Tennessee area |
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| SSA Social Security Administration |
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| provided financial security to people who could not support themselves |
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| gov spent more money than it earned, huge debt we see today started with the New Deal |
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| Omar Bradley & George Patton, Jr. |
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| 2 US army generals for WWII |
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| US army general for WWII and president of the USA, led the invasion of Africa and commanded the Allied invasion force at Normandy |
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| US general of the forces in the Far East in WWII |
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| pres of USA, pres after FDR died in office, authorized use of the atomic bomb on Japan, created Truman Doctrine to fight against the spread of communism, got America involved in Korean war |
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| Great Britain, France, Russia, & US |
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| Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941 |
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| Japanese surprised attacked the American naval base, prompted US to declare war on Japan |
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| turning point in the pacific arena, US wins and will start to push the Japanese back, US will island hop towards Japan |
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| military strategy during WWI, selecting specific islands held by the enemy and bypassing the others |
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| Invasion at Normandy 1944 |
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| largest sea to land invasion in American history, Allied invasion of France led by General Eisenhower |
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| largest battle the US army has ever fought in, America was trying to push through German lines and Germans were trying to hold them |
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| Internment of Japanese Americans |
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| Japanese Americans were interned in camps during the war to prevent internal uprising |
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| genocide of Jews 12 million killed by nazis |
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| funds to send servicemen to college and guaranteed loans to veterans to buy homes, farms, and businesses |
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| popular style of music that started in the 1950s with roots in rhythm and blues |
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| dramatic increase in the birth rate following WWII |
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| American policy of resisting communism and keeping it from spreading around the world |
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| implemented the Marshall Plan after WWII |
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| program of American economic assistance to Western Europe after WWII, if we helped them rebuild they would not turn to communism |
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| USA would help any nation threatened by communism, caused us to fight in Korea and Vietnam |
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| year when space race began, Soviets launched first satellite into space, Sputnik I |
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| US and Sov Union emerged as two superpowers after WWII, faced off in arms race for over 50 years, competition that developed between the two |
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| Korean Conflict 1950-1953 |
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| communist N Korea invaded S Korea, America interfered to help S Korea, ended in stalemate |
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| senator Joseph McCarthy went on a witch hunt for communist in the government, people were ruined when accused |
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| US will do whatever possible to prevent communism from spreading, ex Berlin Wall, Berlin Airlift, Cuban Missile Crisis... |
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| operation that moved supplies into west Berlin by American and British planes during a Soviet blockade |
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| N Atlantic Treat Organization NATO 1949 |
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| alliance of nations, agreed to band together in the event of war to protect nation involved |
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| Bay of Pigs Invasion 1961 |
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| failed invasion of Cuba by a group of USA supported anti-Castro forces |
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| Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 |
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| crisis between Sov Union and US over Sov attempt to deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba |
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| rules that the national house of representatives and all state and local legislative bodies had to be apportioned on a "one man to one vote" principle, supporting equal representation |
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| African American leader concerned with reforming American society and gaining equal rights by using civil disobedience |
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| defying codes of conduct within a community or ignoring policies and gov of a state or nation when civil laws are considered unjust, aka passive resistance |
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| statues beginning in the 1890s that required segregation of public services by race |
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| SC case, segregation was legal, separate but equal |
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| Brown vs. Board of Education 1954 |
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| SC case, ended segregation of schools, separate schools were not equal and never would be because segregation implied inequality |
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| made racial, religious, and sex discrimination illegal, gave fed gov power to enforce all laws |
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| aimed at reducing barriers that prevented African Americans from voting |
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| struggle for equal rights for all Americans |
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| nine children were protected by fed troops as they entered a newly segregated schoo |
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| Regents of the University of California vs. Bakke |
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| SC case, did not overturn affirmative action in America |
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| involved Richard Nixon administration which ended his resignation in 1974, burglars were arrested, Nixon resigned to avoid impeachment charges, withheld evidence |
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| lowered voting age to 18, if 18 year olds can die in battle, they should be able to vote |
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| USA interfered when communists tried to take over the country, 1st televised |
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| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 1964 |
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| congress authorized President Lyndon B. Johnson to increase American military involvement in Vietnam, not an official declaration of war, send troops to combat |
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| required president to inform Congress within two days of any use of American troops in a foreign country and to withdraw the troops into combat |
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| Texan businessman that ran on a third party ticket in the 1990s |
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| NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement |
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| agreement calling for the removal of trade restrictions among US, Mexico, and Canada |
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| limited military operation to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait |
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