History Final

Domestic Events 1950s

Interstate System

Technology of 1920s

Radio, Model T

George Bush Taxes

raised taxes after promise to not,

1st Red Scare/Palmer Raids

fear of communism, post WW1

Emergency Quota Act/Immigration Act of 1924

limit number of immigrants, targeting Russians

18th Amendment

Prohibition

Al Capone

gangster, caught by tax evasion

speakeasy

illegal bar

Scopes Trial

teacher teaching evolution, fired

Henry Ford/Model T

mass produced

Lindbergh

1927- 1st Solo Atlantic Flight

The first talking movie

first talking movie

Women in the 20s

flappers, shorter skirts, bob hair, no corsette

Teapot Dome Scandal

Secretary of Interior leasing Federal Oil Fields

Kellogg-Briand Pact

banned war

Hoovervilles

shack towns

Causes of the GDEP

over producing, bad credit, banks loaning to bad credit

FDR

Democrat, GDEP and WW2

New Deal

FDR, plan to help economy during GDEP

Huey Long

everyone should get car, college, home, $2000

Dust Bowl

Dusty, Midwest, Overfarming, Prairie Grass

Okies

people moving from Oklahoma

Migrant Woman

Florence

The Grapes of Wrath

book about GDEP

Positive effects of New Deal

help economy, jobs, no dictator emerged

Negative effects of New Deal

government grows, did not end GDEP

Neutrality Acts

1930- can’t sell weapons to others

Communism

everyone equal on paper, no social classes

Stalin’s USSR

secret police, media control, gulags

Fascism

country is more important then individual

Hitler’s Germany

Gestapo, Holocausts, media control

Hitler Stalin Pact

nonaggression pact, divide Poland

Blitzkrieg

lightning attack on Poland

Cash and Carry/Lend-Lease

sell weapons to Britain to fight Germany

Pearl Harbor

December 7, 1941. Japanese attack, America enters war next day

Rosie the Riveter

work in factory

Bracero Program

brought Mexicans to work farms while America was at war

Zoot Suit Riots

in response to Bracero program

Korematsu v. U.S

upheld interment camps for Japanese Americans

Navajo

wrote military code for U.S

Battle of Stalingrad

turning point in East

D-Day/Normandy

2nd front opened, liberate France

Coral Sea/Midway

stop Japanese expansion

Manhattan Project

build atomic bombs- enrich uranium in Oak Ridge

The Big Three

USA (FDR), Britain (Churchill), USSR (Stalin)

United Nations

U.S, Britain, France, USSR, China

Levittown

cookie cutter houses, houses for veterans

Cold War

U.S v. USSR, Democracy v. Communism, West v. East

Joseph Stalin

dictator of USSR

Iron Curtain

metaphor for split Europe (East and West)

Containment

U.S policy to stop communism from spreading

Truman Doctrine

gave money to small democracies (Greece, Turkey)

Marshall Plan

gave money to West Europe

National Security Act

Created NSC, CIA, Department of Defense

Berlin Blockade/Airlift

fly supplies to West Berlin, flown by U.S and Britain

NATO

U.S, Canada, West Europe

Warsaw Pact

USSR and its puppets

2nd Red Scare

fear of communism

Jospeh McArthy

communist were in the U.S, need to suppress them

HUAC

House Unamerican Activities Committee

Korean War

USSR backs the North, U.S backs the South

Mao Tse-Tung

makes China Communist

Federal Highway Act of 1956

population is growing, roads also for defense

Massive Retaliation

will not nuke Russia first, but if they nuke we will nuke more

Nikita Khrushchev

Replaces Stalin

Hungary Revolt 1956

revolt for more freedom, Khrushed

Sputnik

1957- 1st Satellite, USSR beats U.S to space, NASA founded

U-2 Incident

Gary Powers shot down, spy swap with Russia

Bay of Pigs

failed overthrow attempt of Castro

Berlin Wall

built by Khrushchev- kept East from fleeing to West

Cuban Missile Crisis

found Russian missile launchers in Cuba, naval blockade, missiles removed from Cuba, U.S missiles removed from Turkey

Great Society

all programs to help poor, schools, housing, medicare

Civil Rights Act 1965

banned voting literacy tests, banned poll tax

Space Race

JFK wants man on moon- Armstrong, Aldrin, Micheal Collins

Mapp v. Ohio

illegally seized evidence cannot be used

Gideon v. Wainright

if you can’t afford a lawyer, one will be appointed

Escobedo v. Illnois

right to remain silent

Miranda v. Arizona

right to have a lawyer present during questioning

Vietnam

North Vietnam (Comm) v. South Vietnam (Demo)

Ho Chi Minh

communist leader of N Vietnam

Tonkin Gulf Resolution

U.S boat attacked by North Vietnam, said President could use any means necessary

Fighting Tactics in VIetnam

air attacks, guerilla, agent orange, napalm

Vietnamization/Peace with Honor

Nixon brings troops home

1960s Counterculture

hippies, peace, far out, don’t trust anyone over 30

Detente of Cold War

relaxing of tensions with USSR and PRC

China 1979

ping pong, pandas, eased tensions

Stagflation

70s economy, bad 1973 oil embargo

Watergate Scandal

5 burglars break into Democrat HQ, bug and steal, Nixon’s money involved in cover up

Camp David Accounts

Egypt recognizes Israel

Iranian Hostage Crisis

Iran falls to Muslim government, 52 American hostages held for 444 days

Brown v. Board

separate facilities are not equal, integrate schools

Little Rock Nine/Clinton Twelve

Governor Faubus used National Guard to stop blacks from going to school, Eisenhower sends Army

Martin Luther King

peaceful equality/integration

March on Washington

“I have a Dream”, people judged by character not skin color

Black Power

fist, equality not integration

Malcolm X

black Muslims

Feminism

out of 50s housewife

Betty Friedan

“is this all?’

NOW

National Organization of Women

Roe v. Wade

legalized abortion