the two Japanese cities were destroyed on August 6, 1945 and August 9, 1945 by atomic bombs. The use of these weapons brought about the surrender of Japan.
  • George Pullman
  • space race
  • HiroshimaNagasaki
  • Internment camps
this brought women into the workforce, America saw daycare for the first time ever, many people moved to urban areas in search of employment, African-Americans found work in factories.
  • 11-Sep-01
  • Berlin Airlift
  • Afghanistan
  • WW II
idea that the United States should get involved in world affairs
  • Great Depression
  • Ellis Island
  • Interventionist
  • Isolationist
idea that the United States should avoid involvement in world affairs. The quote from George Washington inspired this belief, "avoid foreign entanglements.
  • Hoovervilles
  • Isolationist
  • Bank Holiday
  • Thomas Edison
created the Hull House to help the inner-city poor. Provided health care, and education to those in need.
  • Jane Addams
  • Jacob Riis
  • Ida Tarbell
  • Social Security
the sleeping car made him a very wealthy man. 1894 Strike resulted in the death of 34 people.
  • George Pullman
  • Pullman Strike
  • Hoovervilles
  • Isolationist
A United States plan to help Greece and Turkey avoid falling to communism. Within this doctrine, President Truman said America would aid any free people (country) fighting against communism.
  • Manhattan Project
  • television
  • Truman Doctrine
  • Muckrakers
Southern Democrats who opposed desegregation (Brown v. Board of Education 1954). Strom Thurmond ran for President in 1948 as a member of this political party. Ironically, the symbol of the party was the Statue of Liberty!
  • Alexander Graham Bell
  • Containment
  • Anne Dallas Dudley
  • Dixiecrats (Strom Thurmond)
known as the "Father of the Blues," this Memphis musician influenced many African-Americans to pursue a career in music.
  • space race
  • Dust Bowl
  • W.C. Handy
  • Cornelius Vanderbilt
Caused by over farming in 1930s
  • Internment camps
  • Dust Bowl
  • Nashville
  • suffrage
(1898) Explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor, Battle of San Juan Hill - Teddy Roosevelt, the Philippines, Cuba, Yellow Fever, US support of Imperialism.
  • Spanish American War
  • Great Britain, the Soviet Union, the United States, France
  • Stokely Carmichael
  • Interstate Highway Act
a combination of large companies form an alliance to squeeze out competition. The companies used money to influence members of the US Senate. This led to the passage of the 16th Amendment (Direct election of Senators)
  • HiroshimaNagasaki
  • NATO
  • Apollo
  • Trusts
an 1894 railway workers' strike for higher wages that was broken by federal troops, in which President Grover Cleveland issued an injunction. weakened the labor movement
  • Berlin Airlift
  • Muckrakers
  • Pullman Strike
  • Immigration
name of the military operation in Iraq. Saddam Hussein was overthrown, yet the weapons of mass destruction were never found.
  • Buying stocks on margin (credit)
  • W.C. Handy
  • Operation Iraqi Freedom
  • Old Immigrants
First federal action against monopolies, it was signed into law by Harrison and was extensively used by Theodore Roosevelt for trust-busting. Intended to prevent the creation of monopolies by making it illegal to establish trusts that interfered with free trade, However, it was initially misused against labor unions
  • Nineteenth Amendment
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965
  • Upton Sinclair
  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act
19th Amendment
  • plumbers
  • They had no money to give to people when they wanted to withdraw money.
  • Gave women the right to vote (suffrage)
  • Hoover Blankets
"Day of Infamy" December 7,Over 1,100 men died aboard the USS Arizona.
  • Interventionist
  • VE Day May 8, 1945
  • December 7, 1941Pearl Harbor
  • Turner's Frontier Thesis
Tennessee Senator who said, "What did the President know, and when did he know it?"
  • Containment
  • Howard Baker Tennessee Senator
  • Fred Smith
  • Elvis Presley
this day saw the loss of more than 3,000 American lives, the destruction of the World Trade Center, and damage to the Pentagon. The heroic action of passengers aboard flight 93 saved the US Capitol possible destruction.
  • Afghanistan
  • Bay of Pigs
  • 11-Sep-01
  • WW II
He was the youngest member of the Tennessee legislature from McMinn County. Carrie Chapman Catt visited his mother, who convinced him to vote in favor of the amendment. Harry Burn cast the tie breaking vote and women across America earned the right to vote. "Don't forget to be a good boy and Help Mrs. Catt with her rats!"
  • Panama Canal
  • Harry T. BurnTennessee (The Perfect 36)(Ratification of the 19th Amendment) (Women's Suffrage)
  • Malcolm X
  • Howard Baker Tennessee Senator
The Soviet Union built a concrete wall around the Eastern communist controlled section of Berlin. The wall became the ultimate symbol of the Cold War. The purpose of the wall was to keep people from escaping to the Western (free) sector of Berlin.
  • Berlin Wall
  • FDICFederal Deposit Insurance Corporation
  • Donald Trump
  • James Meredith
(1896) Supreme Court decision that created the "separate but equal" doctrine. As a result many states across the South had "Jim Crow Laws." Separate water fountains, restrooms, entrances, segregated seating at movie theatres, etc. Most importantly, segregated schools.
  • Roe v. Wade
  • Elvis Presley
  • Gideon v. Wainwright
  • Plessy vs Ferguson
Texas Senator who headed up the Senate Committee investigating Watergate.
  • Berlin Wall
  • Ronald Reagan
  • James Meredith
  • Sam Ervin
birth place of country music many careers were started here. Minnie Pearl,Buck Owens, Roy Clark, etc.
  • Dust Bowl
  • Berlin Airlift
  • Bank Holiday
  • Nashville
father of Microsoft, the wealthiest man in America.
  • Bill Gates
  • Nineteenth Amendment
  • Homestead Act
  • Warsaw Pact
Terrorist group responsible for the horrific events of September 11, 2001 - led by Osama Bin Laden.
  • Gulf of Tonkin
  • baby boom
  • Al Qaeda
  • Fidel Castro
What major change ocurred as a result of the Depression?
  • referendum
  • Thomas Edison
  • People depended on the govt.
  • Hoovervilles
people came to America to escape harsh conditions in their own countries. (Gold Rush, Religious Freedom, Jobs, Land)
  • Thomas Edison
  • Old Immigrants
  • Immigration
  • Interventionist
the secret project to build an atomic weapon.
  • Manhattan Project
  • HiroshimaNagasaki
  • Operation Iraqi Freedom
  • Manifest Destiny
feelings of hostility for immigrants. It favored people or products that were American.
  • domino theory
  • bimetallism
  • W.C. Handy
  • Nativism
attempt to stop patronage and political scandal, required government employees to pass a Civil Service Exam
  • Pure Food and Drug Act
  • Seventeenth Amendment
  • Nineteenth Amendment
  • Pendleton Civil Service Act
(Harlem Renaissance) African-American author who wrote Not Without Laughter and The Weary Blues.
  • Fidel Castro
  • Woodward & Bernstein
  • Cordell Hull
  • Langston Hughes
founded Wal-Mart and Sam's Club. Bought in extremely large quantities and sold at low prices. (Discount Stores)
  • Steve Jobs
  • Sam Walton
  • Jeff Bezos
  • NAACP
Military alliance formed by the USSR with other communist countries from Eastern Europe.
  • Warsaw Pact
  • Homestead Act
  • Seventeenth Amendment
  • Pure Food and Drug Act
he made milk chocolate available to the world. A Pennsylvania city bears his name.
  • ...
  • Christopher Sholes
  • Milton Hershey
  • NAACP
political machine that controlled politics in NYC in the late 1800s. Controlled by Boss William Marcy Tweed who was exposed by the political cartoons of Thomas Nast in Harpers Weekly. Nast is the father of the symbols of political parties, the modern image of Santa Claus.
  • Tammany Hall
  • Berlin Airlift
  • space race
  • Thomas Edison
the United States policy designed to keep Communism from spreading after WW II.
  • TVATennessee Valley Authority
  • Containment
  • Diane Nash
  • Berlin Wall
August 14, 1945 would become known as... (the formal surrender of Japan would actually take place aboard the USS Missouri on September 2, 1945.
  • VJ Day August 14, 1945(Formal Surrender September 2, 1945)
  • Proven guilty and was fined $100, it is still illegal to teach evolution in schools
  • Little Rock 9
  • Cornelius Vanderbilt
pockets turned inside out to protest the poor economy.
  • Charles Lindbergh
  • Hoover Flags
  • Diane Nash
  • Jacob Riis
President with one of the most impressive resumes in American history, (8 yrs. VP, Director of the CIA, RNC Chair, WW II Navy pilot, etc, etc..). Elected President in 1988 - defeated Michael Dukakis. Saw victory in Desert Shield / Storm, and the end of the Cold War. Had the resume, but didn't have the charisma. Lost the Presidency to Bill Clinton in 1992 election. The 92 election pitted him against Clinton (D) and Perot (I). Clinton benefited from the 3 way race winning the Presidency with only 43% of the vote.
  • James Meredith
  • Stokely Carmichael
  • Christopher Sholes
  • George H. W. Bush
What was the outcome of the Scopes Trial?
  • VE Day May 8, 1945
  • Proven guilty and was fined $100, it is still illegal to teach evolution in schools
  • W.C. Handy
  • Ellis Island
President Teddy Roosevelt helped Panama gain independence from Columbia (created a revolution). The United States completed the job that France was unable to finish. This feat greatly increased the power of the Navy by linking the Atlantic and the Pacific. The distance of travel (New York to San Francisco) was shortened by several thousand miles. The United States would now control shipping in the Western Hemisphere.
  • Barack Obama
  • Marcus Garvey
  • TVATennessee Valley Authority
  • Panama Canal
What was the major incident that basically turned Americans from feeling neutral about WW1 and joining the allies?
  • Ghost Dance
  • Hoovervilles
  • Proven guilty and was fined $100, it is still illegal to teach evolution in schools
  • The sinking of the Lusitania
a bill originated by the people rather than lawmakers
  • initiative
  • Hoovervilles
  • Gave women the right to vote (suffrage)
  • Interventionist
The Axis powers during World War II. (remember they wanted to dance a JIG on the map of the world!)
  • Vietnam War
  • baby boom
  • Pearl Harbor
  • Germany, Italy, and Japan
Communist leader of Cuba who led a successful revolution inHe declared Cuba would become a Communist state. (90 miles from Florida)
  • Fidel Castro
  • W.E.B. Du Bois
  • George H. W. Bush
  • Richard Nixon
The plan to put a man into space (United States). John Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth.
  • Mercury
  • SEATO
  • Gave women the right to vote (suffrage)
  • HiroshimaNagasaki
name for the popular form of music that teens were listening to in the 1950s.
  • Rock N Roll
  • Ida Tarbell
  • Roe v. Wade
  • Steve Jobs
a policy in which a nation avoids entanglements in foreign wars
  • bimetallism
  • Imperialism (Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines)
  • Isolationism
  • Isolationist
Tennessee city created to help construct the first atomic weapons. Hanford, Washington and Los Alamos, New Mexico also played important roles in the project. This site in Tennessee was chosen for its seclusion and proximity to cheap hydroelectric power.
  • Assimilation
  • Gulf of Tonkin
  • Oak Ridge, Tennessee
  • Interstate Highway Act
political movement for the common people. The government should own the railroads. Bimetallism, workers should have an 8 hour workday and better benefits. William Jennings Bryan - Cross of Gold Speech
  • Populism
  • counter culture
  • Yellow Journalism
  • Hoovervilles
elected President in one of the closest elections in history (2000). He defeated Al Gore (D) in the Electoral College, but lost the popular vote. The state of Florida played a critical role in deciding the outcome. The Supreme Court decision in Bush v. Gore brought the 36 day fight for Florida's 25 Electoral votes to an end. He won the Electoral College 271 to 266.
  • Social Security
  • W.E.B. DuBois
  • George W. Bush
  • Andrew Carnegie
this (1935) act gave workers the right to join labor unions. A minimum wage was established, and the maximum hours that one could work.
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965
  • New Deal
  • Fair Labor Standards Act
  • Gulf of Tonkin
Karl Marx was the father of this type of government - ideally, it would create a classless society.
  • Ghost Dance
  • Imperialism
  • Communism
  • Yellow Journalism
phrase coined by Teddy Roosevelt. Reporters who discovered corruption within industry and government organizations. Laws were created and changed because of their work.
  • Gilded Age
  • Germany
  • Muckrakers
  • Immigration
created by the New Deal to help with flood control, provide jobs, and cheap hydro electric power to a seven state area.
  • Richard Nixon
  • TVATennessee Valley Authority
  • Elvis Presley
  • Fidel Castro
reporter who exposed illegal actions committed by the Standard Oil Company.
  • Ida Tarbell
  • Levitt
  • Lee Iacocca
  • Donald Trump
young men from 18 to 25 were employed to build parks, playgrounds, clear trails, build dams, and plant trees. The site where Powell High School sits was a camp for this agency during the Great Depression.
  • CCC Civilian Conservation Corpsalso known as Roosevelt's "tree army"
  • New Immigrants
  • Prohibition (18th Amendment)
  • Operation Iraqi Freedom
he became the father of the suburbs when he transformed a New Jersey potato farm into the largest neighborhood in the United States. Used mass production techniques to build houses. (Levittown)
  • Levitt
  • Rosie The Riveter
  • ...
  • Charles Lindbergh
founded the largest online book seller in the world. Amazon.com
  • Sam Walton
  • Lee Iacocca
  • Christopher Sholes
  • Jeff Bezos
Great US president who established national parks and conservation
  • Betty Friedan
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • James Meredith
  • Sam Ervin
One of the greatest pieces of legislation in American history, this gave veterans the opportunity to go to school, get job training and guaranteed home loans. It also provided loans to those starting a business.
  • Bill Gates
  • Interstate Commerce Act
  • GI Bill
  • Bill Clinton
(1963) Supreme Court decision - ruled that every defendant in a criminal case must be provided an attorney if they cannot afford it.
  • Eugene V. Debs
  • Langston Hughes
  • Gideon v. Wainwright
  • George H. W. Bush
created by the New Deal to establish confidence in the nation's banks. The government would provide insurance for up to $5,000
  • Stokely Carmichael
  • Containment
  • FDICFederal Deposit Insurance Corporation
  • Fidel Castro
William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer published sensational stories and used this form of journalism to promote the Spanish-American War.
  • Populism
  • D-Day June 6, 1944
  • counter culture
  • Yellow Journalism
he invented barbed wire and brought an end to the open range.
  • Samuel F.B. Morse
  • Jane Addams
  • Joseph Glidden
  • Rosie The Riveter
shantytowns made from scrap material, wood, metal, etc. Homeless people lived in these during the depression.
  • Hoovervilles
  • Harlem Renaissance
  • Isolationist
  • Old Immigrants
owned U.S. Steel and used Vertical integration to monopolize the steel industry. Gave millions to build libraries and schools.
  • Andrew Carnegie
  • Upton Sinclair
  • J.P. Morgan
  • Lee Iacocca
What was the main factor in over speculation and the crash of the stock market in 1929?
  • W.C. Handy
  • Buying stocks on margin (credit)
  • Interventionist
  • Ghost Dance
(1964) This act ended legal segregation in all aspects of society. Senator Albert Gore, Sr. pushed for Civil Rights (Tennessee Senator who refused to sign the Southern Manifesto)
  • Executive Order 9066 (Japanese Internment Camps)
  • Bill Clinton
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • Warsaw Pact
phrase coined by Mark Twain, describes time period between 1865-1900, extravagant wealth (top 5% held 86% of the nations wealth) terrible poverty existed underneath the surface.
  • Isolationist
  • Ghost Dance
  • Old Immigrants
  • Gilded Age
this became a centerpiece of the home in the 1920s. Shows like The Lone Ranger, The Shadow, Little Orphan Annie aired on this device. President FDR used this as a means of communicating with the American public in what became known as fireside chats.
  • television
  • Bay of Pigs
  • Muckrakers
  • 11-Sep-01
Founder of Federal Express (FedEx) based in Memphis, Tennessee. This man earned a C on his college paper - the professor said he would never be able to challenge the Post Office. This man has that paper framed in his office today!
  • Fidel Castro
  • George H. W. Bush
  • Berlin Wall
  • Fred Smith
Flowering of Africa American art/achievement (Langston Hughes, Louis Armstrong, etc)
  • Berlin Airlift
  • counter culture
  • Thomas Edison
  • Harlem Renaissance
Desire for military strength. Desires for raw materials/new markets. The U.S needed to expand it's market due to a surplus of goods. Belief in cultural superiority.causes of _________________
  • D-Day June 6, 1944
  • Imperialism
  • Ghost Dance
  • 11-Sep-01
Saddam Hussein (Iraq) invaded the oil rich country of Kuwait. President Bush (41) organized a US led coalition to drive Iraq out of Kuwait by military force. Started January 16, 1991.
  • Buying stocks on margin (credit)
  • HiroshimaNagasaki
  • Tammany Hall
  • Operation Desert Storm
period of time after WW II until the early 1960s, millions of babies were born in the United States.
  • The Bonus Army
  • Causes of the Great War (ANIMAL)
  • Spanish American War
  • baby boom
railroad baron, a true symbol of the "Gilded Age," known as the Commodore. A college in Tennessee bears his name.
  • Cornelius Vanderbilt
  • Immigration
  • Pullman Strike
  • Great Depression
he was the 34th governor of Tennessee - He was governor when the 19th Amendment was ratified. (Perfect 36) He called for a special session of the
  • ...
  • Route 66Migration to California (Okies and Arkies)
  • Upton Sinclair
  • Jane Addams
granted women the right to vote in 1920, women's suffrage
  • GI Bill
  • Pure Food and Drug Act
  • Nineteenth Amendment
  • Bill Clinton
A ritual the Sioux performed to bring back the buffalo and return the Native American tribes to their land.
  • 11-Sep-01
  • Turner's Frontier Thesis
  • Operation Iraqi Freedom
  • Ghost Dance
immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, they did not speak English - primarily Catholic. Came for opportunity - jobs, land.
  • New Immigrants
  • counter culture
  • Old Immigrants
  • Ghost Dance
Alliances, Nationalism, Imperialism, Militarism, Anarchy, Leadership. (Causes of...)
  • The Civil War
  • Causes of the Great War (ANIMAL)
  • Howard Baker Tennessee Senator
  • Vietnam War
multi-millionaire who made his fortune in the real-estate business. Tried to copyright the phrase, "You're Fired!" Started the USFL a football league that played in the Spring. He fought the NCAA so that Jrs. Could come out of school to play professional football.
  • Donald Trump
  • Anne Dallas Dudley
  • Milton Hershey
  • Social Security
he was a wealthy banker - purchased Carnegie Steel and created U.S. Steel.
  • Thomas Edison
  • W.E.B. DuBois
  • J.P. Morgan
  • Rosie The Riveter
"the King of Rock n' Roll" appeared on the Ed Sullivan show inHe recorded at Sun Records. Honorably served in the Army when he was drafted. Home in a former church (Graceland) located in Memphis, Tennessee.
  • FDICFederal Deposit Insurance Corporation
  • Sam Ervin
  • Harry T. BurnTennessee (The Perfect 36)(Ratification of the 19th Amendment) (Women's Suffrage)
  • Elvis Presley
He wrote a book -- By Any Means Necessary "You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom." Black Muslim leader who was assassinated by members of his own group. Believed differently than Dr. King believed in physical violence if necessary. (Nation of Islam)
  • Malcolm X
  • Elvis Presley
  • Betty Friedan
  • Berlin Wall
Allied powers during World War II. (remember RUG) and France.
  • Vietnam War
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • Germany, Italy, and Japan
  • Great Britain, the Soviet Union, the United States, France
this resolution was passed by Congress giving President Lyndon Johnson authority to escalate U.S. involvement in Vietnam after the USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy were said to have been fired on by North Vietnamese gun boats.
  • Fred Smith
  • Gulf of Tonkin
  • Berlin Wall
  • The Civil War
Halted the sale of contaminated foods and medicines and called for truth in labeling
  • Pure Food and Drug Act
  • Jeff Bezos
  • Indian Reorganization Act of 1934
  • Pendleton Civil Service Act
America's greatest inventor-light bulb, phonograph, motion picture
  • Immigration
  • Thomas Edison
  • Hoover Blankets
  • Internment camps
she was a leader of the sit-ins in Nashville, Tennessee and later worked for the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment.
  • ...
  • Rosie The Riveter
  • Standard Oil Trust/Company
  • Diane Nash
founded the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) believed that African-Americans should fight for equality and demand respect.
  • George W. Bush
  • Fred Smith
  • W.E.B. DuBois
  • Fidel Castro
What did the sixteenth amendment change in American Society?
  • Proven guilty and was fined $100, it is still illegal to teach evolution in schools
  • They had no money to give to people when they wanted to withdraw money.
  • Memphis Sun Records
  • gave congress the right to levy income tax. You could get more money from the wealthy.
(1973) Supreme Court decision that gave women the right to choose.
  • Dawes Act
  • Pure Food and Drug Act
  • Warsaw Pact
  • Roe v. Wade
Where Japanese Americans were placed after Pearl Harbor attack
  • They were blamed for robbing a shop, and they were immigrants.
  • Buying stocks on margin (credit)
  • Internment camps
  • Manhattan Project
new laws established a new form of government within Indian reservations. Individual tribes were now able to govern themselves. Native Americans could leave the reservation and still retain identity.
  • Pure Food and Drug Act
  • Interstate Commerce Act
  • Seventeenth Amendment
  • Indian Reorganization Act of 1934
founded in 1909 to work for racial equality, led by W.E.B. Debois
  • NAACP
  • Donald Trump
  • Ray Kroc
  • J.P. Morgan
the light bulb is his most famous invention, he also invented the phonograph, and the first motion pictures.
  • Thomas Edison
  • Sam Walton
  • Donald Trump
  • Jacob Riis
the turning point of the war in the Pacific, from this point forward the Japanese would be on the defensive.
  • Al Qaeda
  • baby boom
  • Battle of Midway
  • Barack Obama
Banned all Chinese immigrants
  • Bill Clinton
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965
  • Chinese Exclusion Act
  • Sixteenth Amendment
What was the consequence of bankers making risky investments with depositor's savings?
  • Old Immigrants
  • Turner's Frontier Thesis
  • They had no money to give to people when they wanted to withdraw money.
  • They were blamed for robbing a shop, and they were immigrants.
Nickname for the new Progressive Party, which was formed to support Roosevelt in the election of 1912, The party wanted tariff reduction, women's suffrage, higher corporate regulation and a child labor ban, a federal compensation for workers, and several other platforms.
  • Malcolm X
  • Bull Moose Party
  • Cordell Hull
  • Suffrage Movement
Cuban exiles in the United States were trained by the CIA to overthrow Fidel Castro and his communist regime. President Kennedy's biggest failure - at the last moment JFK called back the air support and the mission failed. It was an embarrassment for the US.
  • Bay of Pigs
  • 11-Sep-01
  • Pullman Strike
  • Operation Desert Storm
Washington Post reporters who broke the Watergate story and brought down President Nixon.
  • TVATennessee Valley Authority
  • Ronald Reagan
  • Woodward & Bernstein
  • Fidel Castro
Group working for President Nixon to fix "leaks" coming out of the White House.
  • W.C. Handy
  • plumbers
  • Hoovervilles
  • Great Depression
owner of Standard Oil, he used Horizontal Integration to control the oil business
  • Henry Ford
  • Jane Addams
  • Alexander Graham Bell
  • John D. Rockefeller
a late 19th century political movement demanding that people have a greater voice in government and seeking to advance the interests of farmers and laborers
  • Populism
  • Communism
  • Trusts
  • television
(19th Amendment) Women gained the right to vote with the passage inThe Perfect 36, at the time of passage, the number of states was3/4ths of the states had to pass a proposed amendment before it would be added to the Constitution. Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment.
  • Bull Moose Party
  • Woodward & Bernstein
  • Suffrage Movement
  • Brown vs Board of Education
a 1913 law passed by Wilson that set up a system of federal banks and gave government the power to control the money supply
  • Interstate Highway Act
  • Pure Food and Drug Act
  • Pendleton Civil Service Act
  • Federal Reserve Act
African-American who founded the "Back to Africa" movement.
  • Cordell Hull
  • W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Marcus Garvey
  • Sam Ervin
per FDR this Executive Order would place more than 100,000 Japanese Americans into Internment camps. Korematsu v. the United States (1944) the Supreme Court agreed with FDR that American citizens should be protected from possible uprising. Finally, under President Reagan in the 80s the government would apologize and make payments to survivors.
  • Brown vs Board of Education
  • Dawes Act
  • Indian Reorganization Act of 1934
  • Executive Order 9066 (Japanese Internment Camps)
Military alliance formed by the United States and allies to provide security in the event of an attack by the USSR.
  • Cornelius Vanderbilt
  • W.C. Handy
  • New Immigrants
  • NATO
process by which people vote directly on a bill
  • television
  • referendum
  • Hoovervilles
  • Great Depression
veterans of the Great War (WW I) who marched on Washington D.C. to demand the bonus promised to them inIn 1932 US troops attacked this group and drove them out of the capital.
  • The Civil War
  • Germany, Italy, and Japan
  • The Bonus Army
  • Pearl Harbor
in an attempt to restore trust in the nation's banks, FDR closed all banks for 4 days. Only those banks that were solvent were allowed to reopen. The closures of the banks coupled with the creation of the FDIC were attempts to stop runs on the banks.
  • Pullman Strike
  • New Immigrants
  • W.C. Handy
  • Bank Holiday
the belief (theory) that it was the right of the United States to occupy all of America from Sea to Shining Sea!
  • Manhattan Project
  • Manifest Destiny
  • social darwinism-survival of the fittest
  • Interventionist
The plan to rebuild Europe after WW II to avoid the spread of communism. The U.S. spent billions in war torn countries. Secretary of State George Marshall felt that stronger countries could avoid falling to communism.
  • Malcolm X
  • Marshall Plan
  • Cordell Hull
  • Bill Clinton
African American who believed Blacks should fight segregation; pushed for higher education opportunities for Blacks to achieve economic independence; helped to found the NAACP
  • Containment
  • Howard Baker Tennessee Senator
  • Eugene V. Debs
  • W.E.B. Du Bois
Congressman from Tennessee, he became the Secretary of State under FDR and served in that position longer than anyone in American history. He is often called the "Father of the United Nations." He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945.
  • Marcus Garvey
  • Cordell Hull
  • George H. W. Bush
  • Stokely Carmichael
58,000 Americans would lose their lives in the first TV war. The United States wanted to prevent communism from spreading to South Vietnam. Although America inflicted extremely heavy casualties on the enemy, public opinion turned against the war. More bombs were dropped here than on Germany, Japan, and Korea combined.
  • Germany, Italy, and Japan
  • Spanish American War
  • Battle of Wounded Knee
  • Vietnam War
protestants, lighter skin, lighter hair, lighter eyes, came to America from Western Europe - (Great Britain, Germany) in search of religious freedom.
  • Isolationist
  • Old Immigrants
  • Gilded Age
  • counter culture
The Final Solution - 6 million European Jews and 5 million others would die in Concentration Camps. (Genocide)
  • Hoovervilles
  • W.C. Handy
  • Dust Bowl
  • Holocaust
May 8, 1945 would become known as...
  • referendum
  • Cuban Missile Crisis
  • VE Day May 8, 1945
  • Memphis Sun Records
the federal government was given the power to force local officials to allow African-Americans the right to vote. (literacy tests, poll taxes and grandfather clauses were made illegal)
  • Nineteenth Amendment
  • Pure Food and Drug Act
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965
  • Interstate Commerce Act
(Southeast Asia Treaty Organization) formed inProvided to less fortunate countries in the area and promised military support if needed. An effort to stop Communism from spreading in Southeast Asia.
  • SEATO
  • Lend-Lease Program
  • Trusts
  • Immigration
vegetarian activist who exposed the horrific conditions in the meat packing plants of Chicago. His book, The Jungle, aimed to hit America in the heart, but hit in the stomach instead. This book led to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act of 1906 and brought awareness to unsafe practices.
  • Anne Dallas Dudley
  • Sam Walton
  • Christopher Sholes
  • Upton Sinclair
the first artificial satellite was launched by the USSR on October 4,As a result the United States began to emphasize science and math in education. NASA was formed.
  • Little Rock 9
  • space race
  • Berlin Airlift
  • Holocaust
She wrote, "The Feminine Mystique." Feminist leader who believed women could make it in a man's world.
  • Woodward & Bernstein
  • Cordell Hull
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • Betty Friedan
Operation Torch - 1943, General Patton would lead the Americans to victory and eventually attack what Churchill called the "soft underbelly of Europe."
  • North Africa 1943
  • Ghost Dance
  • plumbers
  • initiative
What company did the muckraker Ida Tarbell use her skills as a writer and researcher to try and expose as being ruthless?
  • Social Security
  • Christopher Sholes
  • Standard Oil Trust/Company
  • Hoover Flags
Inventor of Model T automobile and mass production/assembly line
  • Hoover Flags
  • Samuel F.B. Morse
  • Henry Ford
  • Jeff Bezos
The right to vote
  • suffrage
  • referendum
  • Apollo
  • Immigration
largest manufacturer of computers. "Dude, you're getting a..."
  • Nashville
  • Dell
  • television
  • Muckrakers
Operation Overlord - June 6, 1944 the greatest amphibious invasion in history to that point - A second front designed to liberate Europe would be opened.
  • Isolationist
  • Old Immigrants
  • D-Day June 6, 1944
  • Cornelius Vanderbilt
poor farming practices and a severe drought led to horrible dust storms and left much of the Southern Great Plains in despair.
  • Trusts
  • Gilded Age
  • Operation Iraqi Freedom
  • Dust Bowl
photographer who showed the harsh conditions in America's big cities during the Gilded Age. Published a book titled How the Other Half Lives.
  • Diane Nash
  • Ray Kroc
  • Jacob Riis
  • Standard Oil Trust/Company
The bold project to put a man on the moon proposed by JFK. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon. "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
  • counter culture
  • HiroshimaNagasaki
  • 11-Sep-01
  • Apollo
father of the Ford Mustang and the Chrysler Minivan! CEO of Chrysler. Saved Chrysler from collapse. He paid back the money Chrysler borrowed from the government. "If you can find a better car, buy it."
  • Bill Gates
  • Route 66Migration to California (Okies and Arkies)
  • Lee Iacocca
  • George Westinghouse
(1) protect social welfare (2) create economic reform (3) promote moral improvement (4) fostering efficiencygoals of _______________
  • Progressivism
  • bimetallism
  • Old Immigrants
  • domino theory
The Great Communicator (1981-1989) He led America to victory in the Cold War, oversaw the largest non-war military buildup in history. Believed in trickle down economics, tax breaks to business - economic growth. He reduced the size of government through Deregulation - Reaganomics. John Hinckley attempted to assassinate him in 1981.
  • Panama Canal
  • Ronald Reagan
  • Fred Smith
  • Berlin Wall
this country has been a safe haven for terrorists like Bin Laden. The Taliban government sponsored terrorist training camps and suppressed the people of this country. In response to September 11, 2001, President Bush (43) ordered the invasion of this country.
  • Afghanistan
  • Trusts
  • Apollo
  • referendum
Senator Joseph McCarthy (1950s) fear of Communism - he used fear to gain political power. His tactics destroyed many lives. President Truman announces a plan to investigate Federal Employees for connections to communism. Senator John F. Kennedy challenged McCarthy and his tactics.
  • bimetallism
  • Populism
  • McCarthyism
  • domino theory
(1950 - 1953) arguably the most brutal war America has ever been involved in - temperatures in excess of - 40◦ F. 54,000 Americans would lose their lives in what became known as "The Forgotten War." The USSR and China would aid North Korea. At the conclusion of fighting the country would remain divided at the 38th Parallel. The war has never officially ended. America still has troops there today. President Truman called this war "A Police Action."
  • Battle of Wounded Knee
  • Korean War (The Forgotten War)
  • Germany, Italy, and Japan
  • Battle of Midway
after WW II, this country was divided into West & East. The West would be democratic and the east would be communist. The city of Berlin would also be divided.
  • Germany
  • Operation Desert Storm
  • New Immigrants
  • counter culture
developed the air-braking system and alternating current - this allowed power to be sent over long distances.
  • James Meredith
  • Fidel Castro
  • George Westinghouse
  • George H. W. Bush
this war between the states (CSA v. USA) promoted the growth of industrialism in the late 1800s (steel, railroads, communication, weapons, mass production of pre-made goods)
  • W.E.B. Du Bois
  • The Civil War
  • Great Britain, the Soviet Union, the United States, France
  • Causes of the Great War (ANIMAL)
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