history questions
need :
1- date
2- description
3- a historical significance
for the following identifications:
Second Ku Klux Klan
Bonus marchers
Stock market crash
Birth of a Nation
Second Red Scare
Second great migration
Harlem Renaissance
Emergency Banking Act
Civil Conservation Corps
Dust Bowl
Red Lining
Works Progress Administration
House Un-American Activities Committee
Court-packing plan
Social Security Act
Four Freedoms
Lend-Lease Act
GI Bill of Rights
“Double V” campaign
Bretton Woods
Yalta Conference
Executive Order 9066
Containment
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
NSC-68
Levittown
Southern Manifesto
Interstate highway system
Brown v. Board of Education
Emmitt Till
Little Rock Nine
Migrant Mother
Red Lining
Southern Manifesto
NOW
Phyllis Schlafly
Reagan Revolution
Welfare Queen
Barry Goldwater
Operation Dixie
Daisy Ad
Domino Effect
Gulf of Tonkin
Ngo Dinh Diem
My Lai Massacre
Works Progress Administration
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& the answers for the following:
1. How did consumerism and the idea of the “American way of life” affect people’s understanding of American values in the 1920s and 1950s? Should these decades be considered a conservative period? If so, why? If not, why not? (immigration, trade, gender roles, work)
2. What were the political and economic causes of the banking crisis and the Great Depression? How did President Hoover act to alleviate the problem? How did President Franklin Roosevelt respond? Compare the First New Deal with the Second New Deal.
3. How did the end of WWI shape Americans’ reluctance to get involved in World War II? Compare how war preparation impacted the U.S. economy during the two world wars. How did race impact how the wars were fought on the domestic and international fronts?
4. How did consumer consumption change during the 1950s? How did governmental policies, business practices, and individual choices contribute to racially segregated suburbs?
5. What was McCarthyism? How do we explain the anti-communist sentiment in the post-war period? Who were its victims?
6. What were the most significant factors that contributed to the growing momentum of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s?How was the early Civil Rights movement both a matter of top-down (elite) and bottom up (non-elite) activism?
7. Why does the U. S. become involved in Vietnam? What are war experiences like for soldiers? Why didn’t the U.S. win the war?
8. Why does Foner refer to the 1980s as the Second Gilded Age? What does he mean by this? What accounts for the conservative shift in U.S. politics in the 1980s and 1990s?
Source : Voices of freedom book & Give me liberty By Eric Foner