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Volstead Act
The act (formally the national Prohibition Act) is an act that enforces the Eighteenth Amendment, which prohibits the manufacture and the selling of alcoholic beverages. Though this ended in a failure, Prohibition as a whole. -
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Universal Negro Improvement Association (Marcus Garvey)
The UNIA was dedicated to racial pride, economic self-sufficiency, and formation of independent black nation in Africa. Marcus Garvey advocated the mass migration of African Americans to Africa, this failed. -
Harlem Renaissance
This was a period of artistically development of African Americans in America. This manifested literature, music, stage performance, and art in in many African Americans. -
19th Amendment
The amendment made it so any citizen, regardless of sex, can vote and will not be denied or abridged by the State or the U.S. This was the result of many people pushing for women being able to vote. -
Census revealed 50% urban population
This was a census marking the first time in American history that more than 50% of citizens in the U.S. lived in urban areas. -
Immigration Act
This act limited the amount of immigrants allowed to enter the U.S. The act acted on a quota that included people coming through national origins, this act though excluded immigrants from Asia. -
Dawes Plan
This was an agreement between allies and Germany, a plan to make it easier for Germany to pay reparations. The U.S, would give a loan to Germany, which resulted in helped the German economy. -
Scopes Trial
This was the prosecution of a teacher (John Scopes) for teaching evolution in Tennessee public school, this was illegal. In this court case Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan debated whether teaching evolution in public schools was wrong. -
Transatlantic Flight
The First solo nonstop Transatlantic Flight was completed by Charles A. Lindbergh. He went from NY to Paris. -
The Jazz Singer
This was an American musical film that featured the first feature-length movie with synchronized dialogue. First movie with sound, "talkie" -
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Official treaty of the General Treaty for Renunciation of War, as an instrument of National Policy. This pact renounced the aggressive war and prohibited the use of instruments except in self-defense. -
Stock Market Crash
The most major stock market crash in America, that eventually lead to the Great Depression. -
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
This was the murder of 7 members and associates of the Irish gangster George "Bugs" Moran, the murders were dressed as policemen. This is an unsolved crime. -
Bonus Army
Veterans of WWI seeked early payment pension bonuses for their services. -
Federal Emergency Relief Act
This was a grant-making agency that authorized to distribute federal aid to states for relief. -
National Industrial Recovery Act
The NIRA was a U.S labor and consumer law that was passed to authorize the president to regulate the industry for fair wages and prices. This would stimulate the economic relief. -
Emergency Banking Relief
A conservative bill designed primarily to protect larger banks from being dragged down by weaker banks. The Treasury Department were to inspect banks before reopening them. -
Public Works Administration
The administration budgeted several billions of dollars to the construction of public work and providing employment, this improved public welfare. -
Civilian Conservation Corps
A public work relief program that operated to relief the unemployed, unmarried men (18-25) before expanding to ages 17 and 18. -
Tennessee Valley Authority
This was an authorization to complete the dam at Muscle Shoals and to build others in different regions. The authorization also generated and sold electricity. -
U.S. off gold standard
The currency is backed by gold, the monetary system. This was put into play when Congress enacted a joint resolution to nullify the right of creditors and demanded payment in gold. -
"Hundred Days"
This was the first hundred days of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration. An unprecedented number of reform bills were passed by Democratic Congress to launch the New Deal. -
Civil Works Administration
This was a short-lived job creation program established by the New Deal, during the Great Depression. This was to rapidly create mostly manual labor jobs for millions of unemployed wrokers. -
Social Security Act
This was an Act to provide a general welfare by establishing a system of Federal old-age benefits, and many more. It's a two-tiered system of social insurance that programs and means-tested assistance. -
Second New Deal
Roosevelt's second attempt at reform, he had 5 major goals yo replace direct relief efforts. -
Jesse Owens win four gold medals
He's and African American won 4 gold medals sin the 100m, 200m, and 4x100m relay, and also the ling jump in the Olympics. -
Neutrality Act (Cash and Carry)
This act permitted the sale of weapons but only on a "cash and carry" basis. -
Destroyers for Base Deal
An agreement between the U.S and the United Kingdom were 50 destroyers of the U.S. were given to the Royal Navy in exchange for land rights on British possessions. -
Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor
This was a surprise attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. -
Lend-Lease Act
This gave President Roosevelt vitally unlimited authority to direct material aid to the war effort in Europe without violating the Nation's official position of neutrality. -
Midway
This was between Japanese and Americans in the biggest carrier battle of WWII -
Korematsu v. United States
This was a landmark in the U.S. supreme court case that upheld the exclusion of Japanese-Americans from the West Coast Military Area during WWII. -
D-Day
In WWI The Allied Forces invaded France to drive out the Nazi Germany by landing troops on the beaches of France of Normandy. -
Yalta Conference
Meeting of 3 WWII ally leaders; Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. -
Potsdam Conference
The last meeting of the "Big Three" during WWII. -
V-E Day
This day (May 8) marked the Allied victory in Europe -
V-J Day
August 15, was when Japan surrendered marking the end of WWII -
Iron Curtain Speech
Winston Churchill speaks about the necessity for the U.S. and for Britain to act as the guardians of peace and stability against the menace of Soviet communism. -
Truman Doctrine
Establishment that the U.S. would provide political, military, and economic assistance to all democratic nations, that are under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
Containment Policy
A U.S. policy that uses numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. -
Marshall Plan
A U.S. program that provided aid to Western Europe following the devastation of WW2. -
NATO formed
North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an alliance made to defend one another if there is a threat to one of them. Consists of the US, England, France, Canada, and Western European countries. -
Korean War
A war between the North and South of Korea, North Korea invaded South Korea. -
Rosenberg's Convicted of Espionage
The court convicted Julius and Ethel Rosenberg of conspiracy that they committed espionage -
McCarthy Allegations
Hundreds of Americans were accused of being communists and were subjected to investigations and interrogations. -
Domino Theory
Is a theory that a political event in one country will cause a similar event in neighboring countries. -
SEATO formed
The United States, France, Great Britain, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand and Pakistan formed the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, SEATO. The organization was to prevent communism from gaining ground in regions. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
This was a civil rights protest, which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery Alabama, it protested segregated seating. Rosa Parks was an African American Women who was arrested and finned for refusing to yield her bus sea to a white man. -
Great Society
President Lyndon b. Johnson administrated a domestic program that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs. -
Elvis Presley
He's an American singer, musician, and actor who was regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons. -
Sputnik 1
The Soviet Union surprised the world by launching the Sputnik. This was the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth. -
Berlin Crisis
The Soviet Union sparked a crisis in the city by cutting off land access between West Germany and Berlin. -
U-2 Incident
The USSR short down and American U-2 spy plane in the Soviet Air space and captured the pilot Francis Gary Powers. The Soviets convicted him on espionage charges and sentenced him to prison to 10 yrs. -
Bay of Pigs
1400 Cuban exiles launched and invasion at Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. They overthrew the Cuban dictator. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
This was a close nuclear conflict between the Us and the USSR, because of the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles in Cuba. -
James Meredith
He was the First African American student who was admitted to racial segregation in the University of Mississippi. He's one of the pioneers of the Civil Rights Movement. -
Gideon v. Wainwright
The Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution required the States to provide defensive attorneys to criminal defendants charged with a serious offense who can't afford lawyers themselves. This began with the case of Clarence Earl Gideon. -
Civil Rights Act
This was the nations premier civil rights legislation. The act outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, and required equal access to public places and employment. It also desegregation of schools and the right to vote. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Authorization of President Lydon Johnson to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attacks against the force of the United States and to prevent aggression by the communist government of North Vietnam. -
Thurgood Marshall
He was the First African American on the Supreme Court Justice. -
Miranda v. Arizona
The Supreme Court ruled that detainment of criminal suspects, prior to a police questioning, must be informed of their constitutional rights to an attorney and against self-incrimination. Miranda was not informative of his rights prior to the police interrogation. -
My Lai Massacre
This was a massacre of one of the most horrific incidents of violence committed against unarmed civilians during the Vietnam War. American soldiers brutally killed most people in the village of My Lai on March 16. -
Tet Offensive
This was a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cites and outposts in South Vietnam. The offense was an attempt to foment rebellion among Southern Vietnamese and encourage the U.S. to scale back in in it's involvement in the war. -
MLK Assassinated
Civil rights leader and activist was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis Tennessee. -
Massive Demonstrations Against Veitnam War
This was The Moratorium to End the war in Vietnam and was a massive demonstration and teach in across the United States against the United States involvement in the Vietnam War. -
SALT
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, a negotiation between the U.S and the USSR who's aim was to curtailing the manufacture of strategic missiles capable of caring nuclear weapons. -
Kent State Shooting
There were 4 killings and 9 wounding of unarmed Kent State University students by the Ohio National Guard. -
Nixon Opens Relation with China
To gain more leverage over the relations with the Soviet Union. President Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China as an important strategic and diplomatic overture. -
Nixon Resigns
The only President to have resigned from office, due to the complicity cover-up made public and his political support gone, he resided. -
American Hostage in Iran Released
Negotiations between the U.S. and the Iranian Government to end the Iranian hostage crisis. 52 American Hostages were seized from the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. -
South Vietnam Falls to Communist
The Capital of the Republic of Vietnam, Saigon, falls to communist troops from the North of Vietnam, this marked the end of the Vietnam War. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
The East and West of Germany were reunited when the Berlin Wall fell, this served as a symbol of the Country's unification and the end of communism in Easter Europe and the Cold War. -
Strategic Defense Initiative
The SDI was a proposed missile defense system that was intended to protect the U.S. from attacks by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons. -
Iran-Contra Arms Deal
Senior administrations officials secretly facilitated the sales of arms to the Khomeini government of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The administration hoped to use the proceeds to fund of the Contras in Nicaragua. -
Germany Reunified
A unification treaty was ratified and the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic, they two became one. -
Breakup of the USSR
The Soviet Hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time and was replaced by the Russian tricolor. Many countries broke away from the USSR. -
Operation Desert Storm
President George H. W. Bush announced the start of the military operation to expel occupying Iraqi forces from Kuwait that Iraq had invaded and annex.