Key Dates And Knowledge Flashcards
Learn all key dates and key knowledge in the USA paper
When was Hoover president?
1929 - 1933
When was Roosevelt president
1933 - 1945
When was Truman president
1945 - 1953
When was Eisenhower president
1953 - 1961
When was Kennedy president
1961 - 1963
When was LBJ president
1963 - 1969
When was Nixon president
1969 - 1974
When was Ford president
1974 - 1977
When was Carter president
1977 - 1981
When was Reagan president
1981 - 1989
When was Bush senior president
1989 - 1993
When was Clinton president
1993 - 2000
When was the Wall Street crash
24th October 1929
Who was president when the Wall Street crash happened
Hoover
How many terms did Roosevelt serve
4 terms
What was Roosevelt’s plan for recovery called
The New Deal
What were the aims of the new deal
3 R’s:
Relief
Recovery
Reform
Name the Alphabet agencies
AAA - agricultural adjustment act
TVA - Tennessee Valley authority
CCC - civilian conservation corps
NRA - national recovery administration
FERA - federal emergency relief administration
What did the AAA do
Government paid farmers to produce less
What did the TVA do
Gave money to develop poor agricultural regions
What did the CCC do
Gave jobs to young unemployed men
What did the NRA do
Tried to improve workers’ pay and conditions
What was FERA
A temporary measure providing $500 million for relief
When was the Second New Deal
1935
What did the Second New Deal do
Set up more agencies based on Reform
What were the new agencies set up under the Second New Deal
WPA - works progress administration
Wagner Act - national labour relations act
Fair Labours Standards Act
Social Security Act
What did the WPA do
Funded building programmes e.g. schools, hospitals etc.
What was the Wagner Act
Upheld right of workers to organise and enter into collective bargaining - helped workers and led to increase in Union membership
What was the Fair Labour Standards Act
Established a minimum wage and maximum hours
What was the Social Security Act
Gave benefits out to elderly, orphaned and those injured at work, and unemployment benefits
What is McCarthyism
A campaign to root out and expose Communists living in the USA
What was the name of Kennedy’s programme of domestic reform
The New Frontier
What was the name of LBJ’s programme of domestic reform
Great Society
How much did Kennedy spend on public works
$900 million
In what year was the Voting Rights Act passed
1965
What did LBJ increase the minimum wage to
$1.40
Who beat Nixon in the 1960 election
JFK
What was the full name of CREEP
Committe to Re-elect the President
What was set up to implement the Civil Rights Act
Equal Opportunities Commission
What Act of 1966 continued JFK’s policy of urban renewal
Model Cities Act
What were the African Americans who enlisted in the US army in WW2 known as
Jim Crow Army
What was the name of the airmen who won great acclaim acting as fighting escorts for US bombers
Tuskegee airmen
By the end of 1945 how many black pilots had been trained in the US air force
600
Which president desegregated the armed forces and what year
Truman 1948
During WW2 membership of the NAACP grew from 50,000 to how many
450,000
What was the name of the 1886 case the created sperate but equal doctrine
Plessy vs. Fergusson
Which organisation took the case of Linda Brown to the Supreme court in 1954
NAACP
What was the name of the document signed by over 100 southern congressmen after Brown vs. Topeka to oppose desegregation
Southern Manefesto
What year were the events of Little rock
1957
Which president sent 320 federal marshals to escort James Meredith to the Mississippi university in 1962
JFK
What group lead by MLK that organised the Montgomery bus boycott
MIA
Which group organised the freedom Rides of 1961
CORE
Congress of Racial Equality
On which city did MLK focus his civil right activities in 1963
Birmingham, Alabama
What was the name of the police chief in Birmingham Alabama during MLK’s marches
Bull Connor
Which month and year did the march on Washington take place
August 1963
Which group did Malcolm X increase membership to about 100,000 between 1952 and 1964
NOI
Nation Of Islam
Which year was the civil rights act passed
1964
