Final

Question 1

Hoovervilles

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shanty town during great depression named after president

Question 2

Wagner Act

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labor law that guarantees the right of private sector employees to organize into trade unions, engage in collective bargaining, and take collective action such as strikes

Question 3

Glass-Steagall

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United States Banking Act of 1933 separating commercial and investment banking

Question 4

Social Security Act

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The law created the Social Security program as well as insurance against unemployment. The law was part of FDR’s New Deal domestic program

Question 5

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

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(FDR) recruit unemployed young men from urban areas to perform conservation work throughout the nation’s forests, parks, and fields 1933-42

Question 6

Folk Music

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democratized sounds from artists like Woody Guthrie
and Paul Robeson that criticized capitalism, great depression

Question 7

Huey Long

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1934, Long introduced his “Share Our Wealth” plan over a nationwide radio broadcast. His plan was to minimize wealth inequality, via Federal tax and spend policy

Question 8

The Bonus March

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1932, unemployed WW1 vets demanded their bonuses when they needed it the most

Question 9

Iwo Jima and Okinawa

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towards end of Pacific War, extremely brutal, kamikazes, island hopping

Question 10

Double V Campaign

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The Double V campaign was a drive to promote the fight for democracy in overseas campaigns and at the home front in the United States for African Americans during World War II

Question 11

Lend-Lease Act

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United States supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, France, China, and other Allied nations with food, oil, and material between 1941 and 1945, planned to eventually get paid back

Question 12

The Final Solution

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code name nazis used for holocaust

Question 13

The Manhattan Project

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nuclear bomb research project

Question 14

Zoot Suit Riots

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On June 3, 1943, white U.S. servicemen and police officers descended upon a majority-Mexican American neighborhood in East Los Angeles, California, and harassed, beat, and detained hundreds of Mexican American youth

Question 15

Japanese Internment

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japanese were put in camps with suspicion that they could be a threat to the US during ww2

Question 16

Domino Theory

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US worried that without containment, communism would spread (cold war)

Question 17

The Marshall Plan

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The United States transferred $13.3 billion in economic recovery programs to Western European economies after the end of World War II, keep capitalism strong

Question 18

NATO

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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, US first formal military alliance since Revolutionary war, no more isolation, 1949

Question 19

Containment

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main strategy to keep communism from spreading

Question 20

Korean War

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US involved to try and contain communism, many people died, no victory from US, escalated CW, more US involvement in Asia, people back home upset about war, MacArthur threatened nukes

Question 21

Fallout Bunkers

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fear of nuclear war, interstate system “run like hell”, bunkers very expensive and impractical

Question 22

House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

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HUAC was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and rebel activities on the part of private citizens, public employees and organizations suspected of having Communist ties

Question 23

GI Bill

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The G.I. Bill, formally known as the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, was a law that provided a range of benefits for some of the returning World War II veterans

Question 24

2nd Red Scare

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occurred immediately after World War II, was preoccupied with the perception that national or foreign communists were infiltrating or subverting American society and the federal government

Question 25

Dr. Benjamin Spock

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a medical doctor whose book, Baby and Child Care, was first published in 1946. By the time he died, it had sold 50 million copies and influenced a generation of parents, encouraging them to be less strict and concerned about 'spoiling' their children

Question 26

Redlining

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redlining is a discriminatory practice in which services are withheld from potential customers who reside in neighborhoods classified as "hazardous" to investment

Question 27

Levittowns

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suburban housing developments in New York and Pennsylvania created by the company Levitt & Sons between 1947 and 1963. Using an “assembly line” method, the company was able to construct a house in as little as one day

Question 28

Elvis Presley

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influential "king of rock"

Question 29

The Kinsey Report

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Americans were engaging in sexual behaviors more frequently and with more variety than conventional morality suggested

Question 30

The Mattachine Society

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The Mattachine Society, founded in 1950, was an early national gay rights organization in the United States, preceded by several covert and open organizations, such as Chicago's Society for Human Rights

Question 31

Emmett Till

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14-year-old African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store

Question 32

Brown v. Board of Education

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1954 landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality

Question 33

SNCC

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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, was one of the key organizations in the American civil rights movement of the 1960s

Question 34

Civil Rights Act of 1964

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prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin

Question 35

Black Panther Party

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1966 in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, who met at Merritt College in Oakland. It was a revolutionary organization with an ideology of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality

Question 36

Watts Riot

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causes of the riots to be high unemployment, poor schools, and related inferior living conditions that were endured by African Americans in Watts

Question 37

Sidney Poitier

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In the early '50s, he was the top and virtually sole African-American film star—the first black actor to become a hero to both black and white audiences. Poitier was also the first black actor to win a prestigious international film award

Question 38

“Roll, Jordan, Roll”

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Slaves came to appreciate the older song's message of hope for release from life's struggles and interpreted its reference to the River Jordan as code for the Ohio River, which marked the boundary between free and slave territories.

Question 39

The Great Society

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Lyndon Johnson's vision for America which demanded an end to poverty, racial injustice, and an opportunity for every child

Question 40

SDS

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students for democratic society, anti war organization of college students

Question 41

Women's Liberation

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a movement to combat sexual discrimination and to gain full legal, economic, vocational, educational, and social rights and opportunities for women, equal to those of men

Question 42

The Feminine Mystique

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to empower fellow college-educated women to seek fulfilling careers outside the home and to not limit their options to simply being wives and mothers, spark second wave feminism

Question 43

Phyllis Schlafly

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ERA would undermine a family, anti feminism, women are already protected

Question 44

Equal Rights Amendment

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designed to guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex

Question 45

Occupation of Alkatraz

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19-month long protest when 89 Native Americans and their supporters occupied Alcatraz Island, showed how poorly they are treated in reservations

Question 46

Si se puede

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motto of the United Farm Workers of America, and has since been taken up by other activist groups. In 1972, during César Chávez's 25-day fast in Phoenix, Arizona, UFW's co-founder, Dolores Huerta, came up with the slogan, "yes you can"

Question 47

Chicano/Chicana Movement

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largest and most widespread civil rights and empowerment movement by Mexican-descent people in the United States. The key years of the movement are between 1965 and 1975

Question 48

Tet Offensive

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North Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong forces launched a coordinated attack against a number of targets in South Vietnam. The U.S. and South Vietnamese militaries sustained heavy losses before finally repelling the communist assault, on holiday

Question 49

My Lai

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war crime committed by the United States on 16 March 1968, involving the mass murder of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by the United States Army, public was not happy

Question 50

Ho Chi Minh

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leader of north vietnam, communist, military supply trail, make vietnam independent

Question 51

"Paint it Black"

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rolling stones song, vietnam vets related to it because they felt like they didn't belong when they returned from war

Question 52

Vietnamization

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reducing number of US troops in vietnam and preparing the south to make over majority of war, Nixon

Question 53

The Moral Majority

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portrayed issues such as abortion, divorce, feminism, gay and lesbian rights, and the Equal Rights Amendment as attacks on the traditional concept and values of American families

Question 54

The Silent Majority

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Was a phrase introduced by President Richard Nixon to refer to a significant number of Americans who supported his policies but chose not to express their views, "forgotten Americans"

Question 55

The Rust Belt

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north east, in the late 1970s, after a sharp decline in industrial work left many factories abandoned and desolate, causing increased rust from exposure to the elements

Question 56

Stagflation

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high inflation and high unemployment

Question 57

Busing

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Race-integration busing in the United States was the practice of assigning and transporting students to schools within or outside their local school districts in an effort to diversify the racial make-up of schools

Question 58

Sagebrush Revolt

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The protest movement, supported by Reagan Interior Secretary Watt, that attempted to reduce federal environmental controls on industrial activities in the West

Question 59

Jerry Falwell

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American religious leader, televangelist, and founder of the Moral Majority

Question 60

The New Right

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combines neo-liberal economics (free markets and minimal government intervention) with more traditional conservative views on social issues, Barry Goldwater

Question 61

Iran-Contra

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The Iran-Contra Affair was a U.S. political scandal in which the National Security Council (NSC) became involved in secret weapons transactions and other activities that were either prohibited by the U.S. Congress or violated the stated public policy of the government, Reagan administration

Question 62

Reagan Revolution

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His major policy priorities were increasing military spending, cutting taxes, reducing non-military federal spending, and restricting federal regulations

Question 63

Supply-Side Economics

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theory that maintains that increasing the supply of goods and services is the engine for economic growth. It advocates tax cuts as a way to encourage job creation, business expansion, and entrepreneurial activity, bad federal deficit, average person wasn't helped as much as corporations