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1930s-1960s
1930-1960s
Question | Answer |
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New Deal | Program by FDR to help the USA through the Depression. |
Great Depression | time period in USA from 1929-early 1940s of severe economic hardships and high unemployment |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | Only president to be elected 4 times |
Pearl Harbor | Attack on December 7, 1941 by Japan |
Axis Powers | Germany, Japan, Italy |
Allies | USA, Britain, France, USSR, Canada |
Stalin | USSR leader |
Winston Churchill | Great Britain's leader |
Harry Truman | President who dropped the atomic bomb |
Adolf Hitler | Germany's leader |
Holocaust | Germany's plan to exterminate Jews and other minority groups |
Rosa Parks | Refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. |
Montgomery Bus Boycotts | Black community of Montgomery, AL stop using city buses in protest of the treatment of Rosa Parks |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | Civil Rights leader, starts the Montgomery Bus Boycot, leads the March on Washington, assassinated in 1968 |
segregation | separation of races |
Plessy v. Ferguson | Supreme Court ruled "separate but equal" is legal |
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka | Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" is NOT legal |