America 1920s-1960s Flashcards
what was the civilian work administrations(CWA)?
provided temporary work for 4 million men during the winter of 1933, they were tasked with building schools, roads and public toilets.
which act helped native Americans?
reservation acts
what was the red scare?
the fear of communism spreading
what is xenophobia?
fear of foreign items/people
what is the Emergency banking act(EBA)?
closed banks for 4days, inspected them and lent money to trustworthy banks so they could reopen. $1billion invested was given to them.
how many people were employed by the cwa?
4 million
what’s is HUAC?
House Unamerican Activities Committee
what happened when suspected communists were summoned before the government?
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.
what are 2 ways WW2 helped the American economy?
> $50.2billion of equipment was sent to Europe
>unemployment decreased to 1%
what was the first talkie?
the jazz singer
what were the palmer raids?
raids by the US department of justice to capture ,arrest and deport suspected radical leftists(especially anarchists) from the US
how many people were employed by the ccc?
2.5 million
what is SHELDAC?
stock market, hire purchase, exports, laissez faire, disposable income, assembly line, consumer goods
what is McCarthyism?
McCarthyism is the same as the red scare(against communism)
what was the generation gap?
the gap dividing teenagers and adults
what was the national recovery act (NRA)?
a voluntary scheme for companies to sign up to, saying that they would agree to offer workers fair working hours, conditions and wages.
what were the new feature of the 1950s?
- Rock n roll music(Elvis Presley)
- film starts(Marilyn Monroe)
- James Dean (rebel without a cause)
what is a talkie?
a movie with sound
eg The Jazz Singer
what are 2 ways society changed after WW2?
women-7 million more women worked and trousers became fashionable
African-American’s - employment grew by 1 million+NAACP(fought for rights)
what was Brown vs Board of education?
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
what were the Jim Crow laws?
Segregation laws in the South of America
How many schools were integrated by 1964?
3% of all schools
what was a limitation of Brown vs Board?
It was only in schools
who was the governor of Arkansas during Little Rock 9?
Ovral Faubus
what happened at Little Rock?
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.
who were Julius and Ethel Rosenburg?
Soviet spies who gave secrets (about nuclear bombs) to the Soviet Union.
who was Emmitt Till?
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.
what happened at the Montgomery Bus Boycott
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%
How many people attended the Washington March in 1963 for Civil Rights?
250,000 for the civil rights act.
who were the NAACP?
an organisation which helped African-Americans& coloured people
how many students attended sit-in peaceful protests?
400 integrated students
by the end of 1960 how many lunch counters had been desegregated in cities due to sit-ins peaceful protests?
126 cities had desegregated lunch counters
who was the mayor in Nashville, Tennessee?
Mayor Ben West
what did ‘Freedom riders’ do?
deliberately rode on buses in the city or Birmingham, Alabama because may stated did not obey the laws after the bus boycott.
how many freedom riders were arrested?
200 freedom riders were arrested and spent 40 days in jail
who was the governor of Alabama at the time or freedom riders?
John Patterson
who was the president of the US during the civil rights movement?
John F. Kennedy
What were 2 problems faced by people during the Great Depression?
> unemployment was at 25%/13 million
>poverty- living in Hoovervilles
What was the SNCC?
Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee
What was the SCLC?
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
What was CORE?
Congress Of Racial Equality
When was the Truman Doctrine?
1947
