| A | B |
|---|
| Jungle | Upton Sinclair's novel that exposed unsafe, unclean conditions in meat packing plants |
| Pure food and drug act | Progressive era legislation that required truth in labeling |
| Temperance Movement | Push for prohibition of alcohol during the progressive era |
| Progressive Movement | Attempted to regulate business economy to better protect workers and consumers and to reform government |
| Suffrage | Voting rights |
| 19th Amendment | Gave suffrage to women |
| Spanish-American War | US fought to free Cuba from Spain, gained Puerto Rico, Philippines, Cuba and Guam |
| WWI causes | nationalism, imperialism, industrialization, militarism |
| Nationalism | Belief that your country is superior to all others |
| Red Scare 1920's | Response to Communist victory in the Soviet Union |
| Labor Unions | Feared by many as supporting communism and anarchy |
| Harlem Renaissance | African American rebirth of culture and the arts in New York during the 1920's |
| Hoover | Did little to help Depression, thought it would fix itself |
| Causes of Great Depression | low farm prices and overproduction of products, easy credit, industries losing money |
| Black Tuesday | Stock market crashed in 1929 |
| WWII Allies | US, Great Britain, France, Soviet Union |
| WWII Axis Powers | Germany, Japan, Italy |
| Island Hopping | US strategy in the Pacific |
| Nagaski and Hiroshima | Site of nuclear bombs to end the war quickly |
| Internment Camps | Removal of Japanese-Americans whom we did not trust |
| Cold War | Indirect conflict between US and Soviet Union from 1945-1989 |
| Containment | US goal of keeping Communism from spreading (e.g. Vietnam, Korea, Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine) |
| NATO | Western Military Alliance during the Cold War |
| Warsaw Pact | Eastern military alliance between Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during the Cold War |
| Capitalism | Economy controlled by private people and businessed |
| Communism | Economy is controlled by the state/government |
| 38th Parallel | Dividing line between North and South Korea |
| 17th Parallel | Dividing line between North and South Vietnam |
| Truman Doctrine | Financial aid to Greece and Turkey to avoid them becoming Communist |
| Berlin Airlift | Support to Eastern Germany |
| Suburbs | Areas outside of cities where many people moved in the 1950's |
| Iron Curtain | Imaginary line that divided capitalist Western Europe from Communist Eastern |
| McCarthyism | Red Scare of the 1950's that included blacklisting people in Hollywood |
| Brown vs. Board of Education | Overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | Economic pressure to end segregation on busses |
| Peace Corps | US volunteers sent to help disadvantaged countries |
| Space Race | Competition with Soviet Union to reach the moon first |
| Khrushchev | Soviet leader who worked with JFK inestablishing a hotline to communicate |
| Medicare | Government Health Insurance for elderly |
| Medicaid | Government Health Insurance for poor people |
| Vietcong | South Vietnamese Communists |
| Detente | Easing of Cold War tensions (e.g. Nixon's visit to China) |
| Nativism | Anti-immigrant belief |
| Stagflation | Inflation plus rising unemployment |
| OPEC | Controlled Middle Eastern oil supply beginning in the 1970's |
| EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) | Set up in the 1970's to control air and water pollution |
| Camp David Peace Accords | Peace agreement between US (Carter), Egypt (Sadat) Israel (Begin) |
| SDI | Star Wars nuclear defense program (part of Reagan's massive military build up) |
| Ferraro | Mondale's female VP running mate in 1984 |
| Supply-side economics | Trickle down theory- cut taxes |
| Perestroika | Gorbachev's plan to restructure the economy of the Soviet Union |
| Glasnost | Openness and more freedom in the Soviet Union as envisioned by Gorbachev |
