EOC Review 7/8

Shantytowns where homeless and unemployed people lived during the depression; showed people's disgust with Hoover's laissez-faire approach

• Herbertvilles

• Homeless Missions

• Depressionvilles

• Hoovervilles

Name of the economic programs passed by President FDR to provide relief, recovery & reform for the US during the Great Depression

• The Lend-Lease Act

• The New Deal

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Federal Deposit Insurance Commission

This battle during WWII is regarded as the naval turning point of the war because the Japanese never recovered and it led to the US adopting "island hopping"

• Midway

• Bombing of Tokyo

• D-Day

• Pearl Harbor

This African-American pressured President FDR to issue an executive order to make discrimination in military hiring illegal

• WEB Dubois

• Louis Armstrong

• A. Phillip Randolph

• Jackie Robinson

Propaganda figure that inspired women to find their WWII job and help support the war effort

• Rosie the Riveter

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Rosa Parks

• Jane Adams

A competition between the US and USSR after WWII, created tension, but no actual battles were fought between them directly

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Berlin Fallout

• Postdam

• Cold War

Passed by the US Congress after WWII to help rebuild Western Europe by spending $13 billion in economic aid and oppose communism

• The Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• Civil Rights Act of 1946

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

Policy of stopping the spread of communism during the Cold War Era

• Quarantine

• Isolation

• Containment

• Domino Theory

A tense confrontation that resulted after the the US discovered nuclear ICBMs in Cuba causing President Kennedy to blockade the country for 13 terrifying days

• Bay of Pigs

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• D-Day

• Midway

Name of the movement, mostly in the southern part of the US, that was aimed at fighting for equal rights

• Civil Rights Movement

• Cold War Era

• Space Race

• Arms Race