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Answer |
| helped to standardize middle class culture, change values and strengthen ethnic traditions | mass media |
| first person to fly nonstop across the Atlantic | Charles Lindbergh |
| encouraged by easy credit plans, advertising, merchandising and installment buying | consumerism |
| new music style that influenced classical musicians, one of the most influential contributions by African American artists in the 1920's | Jazz |
| women of the 1920s who cut her hair, wore short dresses, drove and participated in sports | Flapper |
| caused bootlegging boom and deaths from alcohol related causes declined | Prohibition |
| was the fastest growing industry in the 1920s | Automobile industry |
| designing products to go out of style | Planned obsolescence |
| the fight to ban alcohol | Prohibition |
| teacher who’s trial exposed the division between religious and scientific values in American society during the 1920s | John Scopes |
| farmers from Oklahoma
v | Okies |
| books to help people forget problems of the depression (like westerns or Orphan Annie) | Escapist novels |
| Roosevelt’s plan to turn around the Depression | New Deal |
| intended to stop bank withdrawals
| Bank Holiday |
| said the New Deal was too costly, gave the gov. too much power and said the New Deal did not go far enough | Critics of New Deal |
| helped preserve cultural heritages | Native Americans and New Deal |
| FDR’s radiobroadcasts | Fireside Chats |
| Eleanor Roosevelt pulled her membership from the DAR after she was not allowed to sing at constitution hall | Marion Anderson |
| Hoover’s did little to end the problems caused by this | Depression |
| large-scale stock selling caused the market to crash on this day | Black Tuesday |
| caused by debt, global economic problems, and overuse of credit,mortgages | Great Depression |
| group of WWI vets that tried unsuccessfully to pass the Veterans Bonus Bill | Bonus Army |
| provided electricity, flood control and recreational facilities for the Tennessee River valley | TVA |
| extended power lines to isolated areas | REA |
| gave older Americans benefits so they could retire | Social Security Act |
| crucial to 1936 election of FDR | African American |
| gave jobs to young men, helped create parks, planted trees | CCC |
| many Americans wanted to make money from rising stock prices so invested in the | Stock Market |
| many lost their land during the depression due to lack of money to pay their | farmers |
| his belief in rugged individualism caused him to oppose direct federal relief | Herbert Hoover |
| Tenant farmer left land and headed west because of this | Dust Bowl |
| Roosevelt’s plan to add new justices over the age of 70. | Court packing |
| helped in many ways to ease the depression, saw the creation of shantytowns during the depression | urban communities |
| leader of the US during WWII | Franklin Roosevelt |
| Mexican Americans were victims of violence during these | Zoot Suits riots |
| systematic slaughter of European Jews by Germany | Holocaust |
| Dec. 7, 1941 | Pearl Harbor |
| forced movement of US troops to prison camps in the Philippines | Bataan Death March |
| invasion of Australia was halted by this | Battle of the Coral Sea |
| after invasion of this island the US knew it could attack mainland Italy | Sicily |
| after the atomic bombs were dropped on these two cities WWII ended | Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| One of several military organizations that accepted women volunteers for military duty during WWII. | WASP'S |
| 1942 invasion of North Africa resulted in allied control of this area | Mediterranean |
| Giving into demands in an effort to avoid larger conflicts | Appeasement |
| policy of withdrawing from world affairs | Isolationism |
| marked allied invasion of France | D-Day |
| imprisonment of Japanese Americans | Internment |
| years US was involved in WWII | 1941-1945 |
| leader of all Allied troops in Europe | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| another name for Germany’s quick attacks on Poland and France “lighting war” | Blitzkrieg |
| Japan violated all international agreements and invaded what area? | Manchuria |
| the most important consequence of WWII was the emergence of the US and USSR | Superpowers |
| systematic slaughter of European Jews | Holocaust |
| commander of US forces in the Pacific | Douglas MacArthur |
| strategy of attacking certain positions and bypassing others | Island Hopping |
| Selective training and service act, selling war bonds, hiring women were all part of | mobilization |
| codename of the atomic bomb project | Manhattan Project |
| required members of the US communist party to register with the Government | Internal Security Act |
| head of US forces that helped administer Japan after the war | Douglas MacArthur |
| under this veterans were given federal aid to buy homes, attend college and start businesses | GI Bill |
| provided Europe with financial aid to combat communism | Marshall Plan |
| began when North Korea invaded South Korea | Korean War |
| political party that split in 1948 over civil rights issues | Democratic Party |
| president who ended racial discrimination in the military | Truman |
| divided into four occupation zones, Berlin was jointly controlled, the Nazi party should be crushed here | Germany |
| countries under Soviet control | Satellite Nations |
| required member so the US communist party to register with the government | Internal Security Act |
| dividing line between North and South Korea | 38th parallel |
| placed atomic energy under civilian control | Atomic Energy Act |
| policy of restricting the spread of communism | Containment |
| was divided after WWII because the Soviet Union and the US occupied the nations | North and South Korea |
| shows on this new medium of the 50’s often reinforced racial and ethnic stereotypes | television |
| showed that some southern whites were unwilling to accept Brown vs. Board | Little Rock Arkansas |
| gave teenagers of the 50’s an outlet for rebellion | Rock n Roll |
| established the segregation was illegal | Brown vs. Board |
| senator who tried to find communists in the US | Joseph McCarthy |
| started the civil rights movement by not giving up her seat on a bus | Rosa Parks |
| blockade of the Berlin was ended by the | Berlin Airlift |
| in response to NATO the soviets formed their own military alliance known as the | Warsaw Pact |
| increase in the number of births in the US | baby boom |
| the search for these created a climate of fear and suspicion | Communism |
| brought in the National Guard to keep schools segregated | Governor Faubus |
| agency developed as a direct result of Sputnik | NASA |
| after WWII people were moving where? | suburbs |
| arms-reduction talks were halted when this plane crashed | U-2 incident |
| Location of failed invasion by anti-Castro Cuban refugees. | Bay of Pigs |
| referred to the influence of English bands such as the Beatles. | British invasion |
| urged black to use “any means necessary” to fight for freedom | Malcolm X |
| led to a generation gap, experimentation with drugs | Counterculture |
| Supreme Court case that made police officers read everyone their rights | Miranda vs. Arizona |
| Marked the high point of the counterculture movement | Woodstock |
| program that sent volunteers to work for two years in developing countries | Peace Corps |
| Established that women and men holding the some job must receive the same pay | Equal Pay Act |
| Tactic used by early civil rights activists to fight for equal rights | Nonviolent resistance |
| resulted in the “hot line” removal of missile bases in Cuba and the limited nuclear test ban treaty | Cuban missile crisis |
| requires protesters to never resort to violence | nonviolent resistance |
| reflected the social changes of the time | Music of 1960’s |
| the most recognizable symbol of the cold war? | Berlin Wall |
| first president of South Vietnam | Ngo Dinh Diem |
| The process of relocating the inhabitants of and destroying South Vietnamese villages was called | Pacification |
| transportation and communications system used to move weapons and supplies from North Vietnam to South Vietnam, passed through Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos | Ho Chi Minh Trail |
| were conducted by US forces to flush Vietcong from hiding places | Search and destroy |
| if one country became communist all the rest would | Domino Theory |
| lowered voting age from 21 to 18 | 26th Amendment |
| believe all war is wrong, Vietnam was not important to the US, US involvement in Vietnam was against the wishes of most Vietnamese | Doves |
| site of one of the worst cases of US killing civilians during Vietnam | Mai Lai |
| as designed to limit the power of the President | War powers Act |
| this was supposed to result in gradual withdrawal of US troops, peace with honor, stable South Vietnam | Vietnamization |
| two years after US military forces left Vietnam | Saigon fell |
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Science Vocab 147928
