America 1920s-1960s

Question 1

what was the civilian work administrations(CWA)?

Answer 1

provided temporary work for 4 million men during the winter of 1933, they were tasked with building schools, roads and public toilets.

Question 2

which act helped native Americans?

Answer 2

reservation acts

Question 3

what was the red scare?

Answer 3

the fear of communism spreading

Question 4

what is xenophobia?

Answer 4

fear of foreign items/people

Question 5

what is the Emergency banking act(EBA)?

Answer 5

closed banks for 4days, inspected them and lent money to trustworthy banks so they could reopen. $1billion invested was given to them.

Question 6

how many people were employed by the cwa?

Answer 6

4 million

Question 7

what’s is HUAC?

Answer 7

House Unamerican Activities Committee

Question 8

what happened when suspected communists were summoned before the government?

Answer 8

they were asked about their political views & had to tell the government who they suspected were a communist. if not they could go to jail.

Question 9

what are 2 ways WW2 helped the American economy?

Answer 9

> $50.2billion of equipment was sent to Europe

>unemployment decreased to 1%

Question 10

what was the first talkie?

Answer 10

the jazz singer

Question 11

what were the palmer raids?

Answer 11

raids by the US department of justice to capture ,arrest and deport suspected radical leftists(especially anarchists) from the US

Question 12

how many people were employed by the ccc?

Answer 12

2.5 million

Question 13

what is SHELDAC?

Answer 13

stock market, hire purchase, exports, laissez faire, disposable income, assembly line, consumer goods

Question 14

what is McCarthyism?

Answer 14

McCarthyism is the same as the red scare(against communism)

Question 15

what was the generation gap?

Answer 15

the gap dividing teenagers and adults

Question 16

what was the national recovery act (NRA)?

Answer 16

a voluntary scheme for companies to sign up to, saying that they would agree to offer workers fair working hours, conditions and wages.

Question 17

what were the new feature of the 1950s?

Answer 17

• Rock n roll music(Elvis Presley)
• film starts(Marilyn Monroe)
• James Dean (rebel without a cause)

Question 18

what is a talkie?

Answer 18

a movie with sound

eg The Jazz Singer

Question 19

what are 2 ways society changed after WW2?

Answer 19

women-7 million more women worked and trousers became fashionable
African-American’s - employment grew by 1 million+NAACP(fought for rights)

Question 20

what was Brown vs Board of education?

Answer 20

A black family were refused after requesting their daughter, Linda Brown, attend a white school, the NAACP saw this case and took it to the supreme court to end segregation in schools, they won their case in 1954

Question 21

what were the Jim Crow laws?

Answer 21

Segregation laws in the South of America

Question 22

How many schools were integrated by 1964?

Answer 22

3% of all schools

Question 23

what was a limitation of Brown vs Board?

Answer 23

It was only in schools

Question 24

who was the governor of Arkansas during Little Rock 9?

Answer 24

Ovral Faubus

Question 25

what happened at Little Rock?

Answer 25

A racist school that didn’t want to end segregation, so 9 African-American students were sent into the school with the protection of the 101st Airborne.

Question 26

who were Julius and Ethel Rosenburg?

Answer 26

Soviet spies who gave secrets (about nuclear bombs) to the Soviet Union.

Question 27

who was Emmitt Till?

Answer 27

A 14 year old African-American boy who was murdered in 1955 in Mississippi. By white men because he supposedly whistled at a white woman in a shop, they then followed him home and brutally beat him till he was dead.
His murderers were found innocent, and then they admitted to killing him. they also got money by doing so.

Question 28

what happened at the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Answer 28

1) Rosa Parks refused to give her seat up for a white man, and was arrested and fined.
2) the WPC and MIA organise a bus boycott were African-Americans refused to use the bus until buses were desegregated
3) It lasted for 381 days, and bus profits dropped by 65%

Question 29

How many people attended the Washington March in 1963 for Civil Rights?

Answer 29

250,000 for the civil rights act.

Question 30

who were the NAACP?

Answer 30

an organisation which helped African-Americans& coloured people

Question 31

how many students attended sit-in peaceful protests?

Answer 31

400 integrated students

Question 32

by the end of 1960 how many lunch counters had been desegregated in cities due to sit-ins peaceful protests?

Answer 32

126 cities had desegregated lunch counters

Question 33

who was the mayor in Nashville, Tennessee?

Answer 33

Mayor Ben West

Question 34

what did ‘Freedom riders’ do?

Answer 34

deliberately rode on buses in the city or Birmingham, Alabama because may stated did not obey the laws after the bus boycott.

Question 35

how many freedom riders were arrested?

Answer 35

200 freedom riders were arrested and spent 40 days in jail

Question 36

who was the governor of Alabama at the time or freedom riders?

Answer 36

John Patterson

Question 37

who was the president of the US during the civil rights movement?

Answer 37

John F. Kennedy

Question 38

What were 2 problems faced by people during the Great Depression?

Answer 38

> unemployment was at 25%/13 million

>poverty- living in Hoovervilles

Question 39

What was the SNCC?

Answer 39

Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee

Question 40

What was the SCLC?

Answer 40

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Question 41

What was CORE?

Answer 41

Congress Of Racial Equality

Question 42

When was the Truman Doctrine?

Answer 42

1947