Letters
WWII
Cold
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Vietnam
Civil
Rights
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This was established by the New
Deal to give young men jobs in
conservation areas and national
parks
The CCC (Civilian
Conservation Corps)
Raising agricultural prices
was the goal of this
AAA (Agricultural
Adjustment
Administration)
This became a competitor to
the AFL under the leadership
of John Lewis
CIO
This set the benchmark for
electricity rates
The TVA
This was an alliance
established in response to
Soviet aggression in Europe
NATO
At the war’s beginning,
Britain and the US decided to
focus here first
European Theater
America invaded here first
North Africa
The battle considered the
turning point in Europe was
this
D-Day
This was the first island taken
by the United States after
Pearl Harbor
Guadalcanal
This was Hitler’s last
counterattack on the
Western Front
The Battle of the Bulge
This was the policy of the US
in response to Soviet
expansionism
Containment
This doctrine was based on
fighting communist expansion
by giving money and weapons
Truman Doctrine
This was the first test of wills
between the US and the USSR
Berlin Blockade / Airlift
This plan was enacted to
rebuild Europe and keep out
communism
The Marshall Plan
They were executed for
giving atomic secrets to the
Russians
The Rosenbergs
Passed by Congress, this
allowed LBJ to dramatically
increase troop levels in
Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The communist North resupplied
communists in South Vietnam
using this
The Ho Chi Minh Trail
This 1968 event turned
many in America against
the war
The Tet Offensive
This event was a true black
mark against the US military
My Lai Massacre
This was Nixon’s plan to remove
America from Vietnam honorably
Vietnamization
This court case established
segregation in the US
Plessy v. Ferguson
This court case removed
segregation in schools
Brown v. Board of
Education
He was the most influential
of all the Civil Rights
leaders
Martin Luther King
Once a black separatist,
his spiritual change
caused his assassination
Malcolm X
This was arguably the
most important civil
rights legislation in the
twentieth century
The Civil Rights Act of
1964
Road to
War
WWII
Cold
War
Nixon
FDR
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This was seen by many as a
dress rehearsal for WWII
Spanish Civil War
Passed by Congress, this
allowed the US to arm Britain
and Russia prior to Pearl Harbor
Lend-Lease
FDR outlined what the US
would be fighting for in war in
this speech
The Four Freedoms Speech
Prior to Pearl Harbor, Japan
informed America that this
trade policy was no longer
recognized
The Open-Door Policy
Until Pearl Harbor, the
American outlook towards
the world was this
Isolationist
They were considered
a danger and placed in
internment camps
Japanese-Americans
WWII officially began with
this event
German invasion of
Poland
America’s strategy in the
Pacific was this
Island-Hopping
He commanded US forces in
the Pacific
General MacArthur
This secret project
developed the A-Bomb
The Manhattan
Project
Though fought by the US,
this war was actually
between North Korea and
them
The UN
Truman fired this general
for insubordination
MacArthur
The Korean War brought him
to the Presidency
Eisenhower
McCarthy got away with
many of his accusations due
to this
The Big Lie
Kennedy faced his first defeat
in his war on communism
here
Bay of Pigs
He won the 1968 presidential
election by promising to end
the Vietnam War honorably
Nixon
He was Nixon’s most
influential advisor
Henry Kissinger
This term means “to lessen
tensions” politically
detente
Nixon’s VP, he had to resign
for crimes he had committed
while governor of Maryland
Spiro Agnew
War protests here resulted in
four student deaths
Kent State University
FDR’s first burst of New Deal
programs became known as
this
The Hundred Days
The weakness of the AAA was
this
It hurt
sharecroppers
and tenant
farmers
Faced with some programs
being ruled unconstitutional
FDR came up with this idea
Court-packing
This Second New Deal
program has had the most
lasting impact on the US
Social Security
FDR communicated directly
with the American people in
this way
Fireside Chats
The 30’s
The 40’s
The 50’s
The 60’s
The 70’s
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This New Deal program was
found to be unconstitutional by
the Supreme Court in Schecter v.
United States
The NIRA
Steinbeck’s book told the
story of a family migrating to
California
Grapes of Wrath
This New Deal program
hired artists, writers, and
actors
WPA
She was a big supporter of
civil rights for blacks during
the Depression
Eleanor Roosevelt
Of the three extremists, he
was the biggest political
threat to FDR
Huey Long
WWII changed
standards of living in
this way
Very little
40% of the war effort was
financed through this
Taxes
Family demographics
changed in this way
Increased marriage,
birth, and divorce
rates
Tensions between young
Hispanics and servicemen
erupted into this days
after Pearl harbor
Zoot Suit Riots
This program helped
servicemen with education
and other types of loans
after the war
The GI Bill
His revolution established
a communist state 90
miles from Florida
Fidel Castro
This was the world’s first man-made
satellite
Sputnik
Eisenhower was forced to
send US troops here to
protect black students
Little Rock
He changed American
music
Elvis
His birth in this year was
unequaled in
magnificence and caused
the angels to sing
Mr. Marshall - 1955
This 1962 event brought the
world to the brink of nuclear
war
The Cuban Missile Crisis
This was the biggest issue of
the 1960 election
Kennedy’s Catholicism
LBJ attempted to end
poverty in America with this
huge program
The Great Society
He sought the Democratic
nomination as a peace
advocate
Eugene McCarthy
His assassination gave
Humphrey the 1968
Democratic nomination
Robert F. Kennedy
Nixon’s visit here in 1972
changed American
political policy
China
Most of the evidence
against Nixon came on
these
Tape-recordings
The resignation of Nixon’s Attorney
General and the Deputy Attorney
General after refusing to fire the
special prosecutor was called this
by the press
The Saturday Night Massacre
Nixon did this rather than
submit to impeachment
Nixon resigned
He was Nixon’s successor
Gerald Ford
People
Politics
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Marshall
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An ambassador to the USSR,
his writings led to the
Containment Policy
George Frost Kennan
He was the leader of China’s
Nationalist Party and first
president of Taiwan
Chiang Kai-Shek
He was the primary leader of
the migrant workers’
movement
Caesar Chavez
She wrote the Feminine
Mystique
Betty Friedan
He conducted controversial
sex surveys and studies
Alfred Kinsey
President carter’s greatest
achievement was this peace
between Egypt and Israel
The Camp David
Accords
After the Iranians won
their revolution, they did
this to the American
Embassy
Seized it and held all
Americans hostage
This was the primary
organization in pursuit of
Native-American rights
AIM
This was the American
response to the Soviet
invasion of Afghanistan
The arming of the
Muhujadin
The US attempted to
mend fences with the
Americas through this
organization
OAS
This was President
Reagan’s response to an
illegal strike by
America’s air-traffic
controllers
He fired all of them
This group took over some
university offices and sought
more power for students
SDS
This section of LA
experienced traumatic
race riots in 1965
Watts
This became the slogan
for black radicals
Black Power
He created this
Andy Warhol
In what way did black
voting shift during
FDR’s presidency
Blacks began
voting for
Democrats
He ran against Truman in
the 1948 election
Thomas Dewey
FDR first helped
Britain in WWII by
trading these for
bases in the
Caribbean
50 destroyers
Truman gave this as his
reason for dropping the
atomic bombs
He wanted to save
American and Japanese
lives and end the war
quickly
The Soviets saw their
domination over
Eastern Europe as no
different than America’s
domination here
Latin America
George Wallace ran for
president in 1968 on this
platform
He wanted to end
desegregation
This president recognized
and supported the new
state of Israel
Truman
The Watergate
Scandal began with
this
The capture of burglars
breaking into Democratic
Party HQ at the Watergate
Hotel
The Kent State incident was
caused by protests against
Nixon’s invasion here
Cambodia
Though Eugene McCarthy
and Robert Kennedy ran
for the nomination in 1968,
he was the eventual
Democratic nominee
Hubert
Humphrey