Period 8 and 9 Part 1

Question 1

Word

Answer 1

Defintion (Make sure to note the time period if possible)

Question 2

Red Summer

Answer 2

A period in mid-1919 during which white supremacist terrorism and racial riots occured in more than 3 dozen cities 1919

Question 3

Red Scare

Answer 3

A Red Scare is a form of public hysteria provoked by fear of the rise, supposed or real, of leftist ideologies in a society, espically communism 1919

Question 4

Fundamentalism and the Scopes Trial

Answer 4

A trial in which a Tennesse teacher was persecuated for teaching evoloution in a state funded school 1925

Question 5

Speakeasies

Answer 5

A bar offering cocktails during the prohibition era 1920

Question 6

19th Amendment

Answer 6

Makes it illegal to deny the right to vote to any citizen based on their sex, which effectively granted women the right to vote

Question 7

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 7

An outburst of creative activity among African-Americans in all fields of art in the 1920s; began as discussions in Manhattan and turned into movement of African-American expression

Question 8

Henry Ford and the Automobile

Answer 8

Henry ford was the founder ford moter company in 1919 which was a car production line in which he mastered the producution line his factorys

Question 9

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

Answer 9

1930. Enacted to protect U.S. farmers from foreign competition by increasing tariffs on certain foreign good

Question 10

Causes of the Great Depression

Answer 10

1929-39. Stock market crash of 1929. Banking crisis: the banks loaned the citizens’ money to stock brokers, who couldn’t pay it back. Overproduction of goods, and under-consumption of said goods as the national spending spree began to die down.

Question 11

The New Deal and the 3 R’s

Answer 11

1932. Relief: for the unemployed and for the poor. Recovery: of the economy back to normal. Reform: of the financial system to prevent a repeat another depression.

Question 12

Fireside Chats

Answer 12

1933-44. Radio broadcasts performed for the people by Franklin D. Roosevelt, to calm and reassure them during trying times.

Question 13

21st Amendment

Answer 13

1933. Repeal of Prohibition - giving the individual states full control over the structure of the liquor distribution system within them.

Question 14

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Answer 14

1933-42. Single men between the ages of 18 - 25 were allowed to enlist in work programs to improve the US’ public land & parks.

Question 15

Civil Works Administration (CWA)

Answer 15

1933-34. A short-lived program established by the New Deal to rapidly increase manual labor jobs, in order to provide assistance during the Great Depression.

Question 16

Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Answer 16

1935. New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers to carry out public projects.

Question 17

Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

Answer 17

30’s. Law passed that offered farmers subsidies in exchange for them limiting their production of certain crops, in order to help crop prices rise during the Great Depression.

Question 18

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

Answer 18

1933. Electric utility corporation founded to improve the quality of live for those living in the Tennessee Valley area.

Question 19

Social Security Act

Answer 19

Federal aid to the states to enable them to provide cash pensions to their needy aged 1935

Question 20

Lend-Lease Program

Answer 20

A policy in which the United States aided the United Kingdom with supplies but not soldiers 1941

Question 21

Pearl Harbor

Answer 21

A suprise attack by Japan when their air force bombed a hawaiin American naval base 1941

Question 22

Role of women in the war (“Rosie the Riveter”)

Answer 22

Women during WWII took up multiple supporting jobs, such as mechanic and nurse jobs, and also found themselves on the front lines as fighter pilots (WASPs). Rosie the Riveter was a fictional character used in US propaganda to get US women to enter formally male-dominated fields while the men were out at war (factories, construction, etc.).

Question 23

Native American Code Talkers

Answer 23

During World Wars 1 and 2, hundredes of native american serviceman used their indegnious language to send secret, coded messages enemies could never break

Question 24

Japanese Internment

Answer 24

during WWII President Franklin D. Roosevelt forcablely relocated Jappense people and Jappense Americans because they were deemed a threat during this time of the war

Question 25

Yalta Conference

Answer 25

The Yalta Conderence took place in a Russian resort town in the Crimea from Feb 4-11, 1945 during WW2. It was a meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union discussing postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe

Question 26

The Atomic Bomb

Answer 26

In August 1945, the United States blew up two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Helped bring WW2 to an end.

Question 27

Taft Hartley Act

Answer 27

Enacted in 1947, the Taft-Hartley Act was intended to protect employee rights by unfair practices by unions. The act prohibits unions from performing certain practices and requires disclosure of certain activities.

Question 28

The United Nations

Answer 28

Established after WW2, October 24, 1945. It was an attempt to maintain international peace and security and to achieve cooperation among nations on economic, social, and humanitarian problems

Question 29

The Cold War

Answer 29

Started in 1947, tension between the United States and the Soviet Union that divided much of the world into polarized camps, capitalist against communist

Question 30

Containment

Answer 30

A foreign policy developed by diplomat George Kennan that claimed that the only way to stop Russia's expansionist ways was to contain it. The policy was implemented in the Truman Doctrine of 1947

Question 31

The Truman Doctrine

Answer 31

In 1947, president Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces

Question 32

The Marshall Plan

Answer 32

It was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. It was enacted in 1948 and provided more than $15 billion to help finance rebuilding efforts on the continent.

Question 33

Berlin Airlift

Answer 33

The Berlin airlift was a 1940s military operation that supplied West Berlin with food and other goods by air after the Soviet Union blockaded the city.

Question 34

Korean War

Answer 34

The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. North Korea invaded South Korea and ceased after an armistice on 27 July 1953.

Question 35

McCarthyism

Answer 35

McCarthyism, also known as the Second Red Scare, was the spreading fear about communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s

Question 36

The U2 Summit

Answer 36

U-2 reconnaissance plane over the Soviet Union in 1960 and that caused the collapse of a summit conference in Paris between the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France

Question 37

Growth of the Suburbs

Answer 37

The rapid expansion of residential areas on the outskirts of cities, typically consisting of single-family homes, during the post-World War II era

Question 38

The Great Migration

Answer 38

The movement of African Americans from the South to the industrial centers of the Northeast and the Midwest. Causes for migration included decreasing cotton prices, the lack of immigrant workers in the North, increased manufacturing as a result of the war, and the strengthening of the KKK. From 1910-1970

Question 39

The Sunbelt

Answer 39

15-state area stretching along the southern portion of the U.S. from Virginia to California

Question 40

Brown vs. Board of Education

Answer 40

In 1964, it signaled the end of legalized racial segregation in the schools of the United States

Question 41

Little Rock 9

Answer 41

In September 1957 the school board in Little rock, Arkansas, won a court order to admit nine African American students to Central High a school with 2,000 white students