SOC SCI COMP 2 Flashcards
1910s
WW1 ends and ppl are happy
1920s
lots of income, great gatsby
1930s
great depression
1940s
WW2 pearl harbor, cold war USSR communist
1950s
Russians launch sputnik, limit of 2 yrs presidency
1960s
US enters Vietnam to fight communism, 1969 moon walk
1970s
gasoline crisis
1980s
reagan is president, ussr begin truce
1990s
berlin wall comes down, cold war ends, persian gulf war operation desert storm
President during great depression
FDR
Lyndon B Johnson
seceded JFK
Axis powers
germany hitler
italy mussolini
japan hirohito
allied powers
US roosevelt
Great Britain Churchill
Soviet Union Stalin
China Chiang Kai Shek
Cold War
1947-1991 space race, arms race
TV hit
shortly after end of WW2
FDR
new deal
social security
president for four terms (unprecedented)
John Locke
Declaration of Independence
life liberty and property
Benjamin Franklin
Founding fathers of the US, many things but not a senator or president
betsy ross
sewing the american flag
plessy vs ferguson
separate but equal
brown v board
sep but eq unconstitutional
civil rights act of 1964
outlawed discrimination of race in schools and voting etc
china
porcelain
egypt’s ancient wonder
great pyramid at gyza