US Final Study Guide Flashcards
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
Lend-Lease Act
Set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed
The Red Scare
A form of moral panic provoked by fear of the rise, supposed or real, of leftist ideologies in a society, especially communism.
The Dust Bowl
The drought affected the south-central United States in the aftermath of horrific dust storms.
Kent State Massacre
Members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine Kent State students
Pearl Harbor
The site of the unprovoked aerial attack on the United States by Japan on December 7, 1941.
The Little Rock 9
The first African American students to enter Little Rock’s Central High School.
The Atomic Bomb
The United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Domino Theory
The theory is that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall.
The New Deal
A series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations
D-Day
A name given to June 6, 1944—the day on which the Allies launched an invasion of the European mainland during World War II.
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Was an international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War.
McCarthyism
The attacks, often unsubstantiated, by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others on people suspected of being Communists in the early 1950s.
Midway
World War II naval battle, fought almost entirely with aircraft, in which the United States destroyed Japan’s first-line carrier strength and most of its best-trained naval pilots
The Berlin Airlift
The United States and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany
The Draft Lottery
Were two lotteries conducted by the Selective Service System of the United States on December 1, 1969, to determine the order of conscription to military service in the Vietnam War in 1970
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War
Black Tuesday
A name was given to October 29, 1929, when stock prices fell sharply.
Watergate
A scandal arising from the Nixon
administration’s attempt to cover up its involvement in the 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in
the Watergate apartment complex
