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Amendments 1800’s Cold War WWII
The year the USS Maine sank in Havana harbor
The year the Spanish-American War began
Also considered to be the year that America became
imperialist
The year that the stock market crashed (referred to as Black
Tuesday)
Considered the beginning of the Great Depression
His theories on the relationship between sea power and world commerce influenced foreign
policy development
During the latter 1800’s, industrialists who gained
great wealth through corruption and unfair business practices
A political movement of the late 1800’s representing
mainly farmers and which favored free coinage of silver
and government control of railroads and industry
The fear of communism in the 1950’s was inflamed even
more due to his senate investigations of communist influence in government and
entertainment
The Cold War became hot when this war broke out in 1950
The war ended in 1953 with a cease-fire that is still in effect
When the French were defeated in 1954, the US
continued the fight against the expansion of
communism here in a war that lasted well over a
decade
He not only authorized the use of atomic bombs against
Japan, he also established the doctrine of containment
against communism
The US was able to supply Great Britain and, later,
Russia, with war materiel due to this 1941 law passed
by Congress
Eras Court Cases
Politics WWI People
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This era was one of heightened tensions between the US and the communist states of the USSR
and China
This era was one of industrialization and
prosperity but also one of greed, excess, and
exploitation
This Supreme Court case struck down a Wisconsin law requiring Amish children to
attend school beyond 8th grade
This case required the state of Texas to come up with a new system of school financing to increase funding for poorer
school districts
In this case, the Supreme Court ruled that manual recounts of presidential ballots in the 2000
election could not proceed because inconsistent standards
in different counties violated the equal protection clause
This 1877 case upheld the right of a state to regulate businesses that affect the
public interest within a state
This act passed in 1973 requires the President to
inform Congress within two days of any use of US troops
in a foreign country and to withdraw those troops within 60 days if Congress does not
approve
A break-in of the Democratic Party headquarters here by operatives working for the
Nixon administration resulted in a scandal and the eventual
resignation of President Richard Nixon
The principle of government where power is shared within
a union between a national and state governments
A concept whereby one nation exercises political
and/or economic control over a weaker or smaller nation
The Democratic political machine that controlled New York City during the Gilded
Age. Its most infamous political boss was Boss
Tweed
He believed that black intellectual elites should lead
the push for civil rights. He also helped found the NAACP
(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
A leader of unionization and labor unions, he was jailed
several times. He was also the Socialist candidate for
President in several elections
Amassing great wealth as owner of US Steel, he later used his wealth building libraries and aiding other
cultural endeavors
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Civil Rights
People
He was an African-American Methodist preacher and a leader
of the Civil Rights Movement who advocated the use of passive
resistance
An African-American leader and educator, he believed blacks should gain an education and
raise themselves up rather than fight for civil rights
This landmark law made it illegal to discriminate based
on race, sex, and religion and gave the government powers to enforce all civil
rights laws including desegregation
The constitutionality of detaining Japanese-Americans in camps
during WWII Authorized by Executive Order 9066
In 1950, the Supreme Court ruled in this case that UT law school’s separate facility for blacks failed to qualify as “separate but equal” and Herman Sweatt won the right
to attend UT Law school
When you are arrested and the police advise you of
your rights they are complying with a Supreme Court decision in this case
Miranda v. Arizona
Factoid: After winning his case, Miranda was later stabbed in a bar parking lot. Ironically, as he lay bleeding to death, his assailant was handcuffed and read his “Miranda Rights”
You cannot be required to testify against yourself and
you cannot be tried twice for the same crime (double
jeopardy)
This pseudo-scientific* belief argued that the human race could be improved through breeding and
was used as an excuse for marriage restrictions, segregation
laws, and a push to lower immigration quotas from inferior
countries
* Pseudo means false
This social reform movement
based on religious principles was dedicated to the
betterment of industrial society through the application of
charity and justice
Groups included the YMCA and the Salvation Army
The theory that if one country fell to Communism then others nearby would
fall as well was used to help justify American
involvement in Vietnam
He wrote Grapes of Wrath which told the story of a family migrating from the Depression-era Dust Bowl
She was the first African-American woman to be
elected to the US Congress and the first
woman to run for president
He made history when he flew solo non-stop from St.
Louis to Paris, France in 1927 in his plane, The Spirit
of St. Louis
Acronyms WWII The Great Depression
Presidents Mix
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Originally formed as an alliance to protect Western Europe from the Soviet Union
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA was formed in response to the USSR’s launching if the Sputnik satellite
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GATT was an international agreement on trade signed in 1947. In 1995, it was replaced
by the World Trade Organization (WTO)
House Un-American Activities Committee
This committee held hearings on communist influences in America beginning in 1938 and into
the 1970’s. Some government employees were accused as communist spies and many accused Hollywood writers, actors, and producers were
blacklisted
This group was the first African-American fighter
squadron
Called the Red-Tails, they earned a reputation as
skilled pilots
Navajo Indians used as code talkers for the US Army
US radio operations in the Pacific during WWII could not be broken as the enemy could not
understand the Navajo language
When the Philippines were invaded and taken by the Japanese, US and Filipino
soldiers who had surrendered were forced to endure this brutal
march to prison camps
Created by FDR to allow the old to live in dignity, this
Second New Deal program consumes a great deal of
today’s government budget
He formed the Rough Riders to fight in the Spanish-American
War
He became President upon the assassination of President
McKinley
He created many national parks
He pushed through the Pure Food and Drug Act
He became president upon the death of FDR
He authorized the use of atomic bombs on Japan
He desegregated the United States Army
He announced a doctrine to contain communism wherever it
may try to expand
He ended the Vietnam War through his policy of negotiation and
“Vietnamization”
He visited Communist China and began a new relationship between
it and the US
He was the only president to resign
He tried to end poverty in America through his “Great
Society” program
He greatly increased the numbers of US soldiers fighting
in Vietnam
He helped push through the Civil Rights Act 1964
He was youngest president to be elected
He was the first Catholic president
He got the Soviet Union to remove its nuclear missiles from
Cuba The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
He was assassinated in 1963
He was the segregationist, democratic governor of Alabama during the Civil
Rights Movement
He literally barred the door against blacks attempting to seek admission
to the University of Alabama
When he ran for president during the 1972 election an assassination attempt
left him paralyzed
A type of journalism that is biased, and often based on false information and sensationalism for the sake of attracting readers
Written by Upton Sinclair, this book exposed the horrible
sanitary conditions and procedures in the meat-
packing industry