US History Vocab 4

Dust Bowl

• Severe storms that hit the middle of the country during the 1930s
• Accusations of communism during the Red Scare in the Cold War
• Conflict fought to stop the spread of communism, US lost
• Economic policy that cut taxes for the wealthy

New Deal programs

• CCC, AAA, TVA, - all meant to create jobs/relief for Americans in the 30s
• Programs meant to fight poverty; Medicare, Medicaid
• US policy to prevent communism from spreading to new places
• Economic policy that cut taxes for the wealthy

Neutrality Acts

• Laws passed by Congress to keep the US out of WWII
• US policy to prevent communism from spreading to new places
• Opened up free trade between U.S., Mexico, and Canada
• CCC, AAA, TVA, - all meant to create jobs/relief for Americans in the 30s

Korematsu vs United States

• Upheld the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII
• Case that overturned “separate but equal” and integrated schools
• Ended discrimination in public spaces
• Forced Nixon to resign from office

Marshall Plan

• $ the United States sent to Europe to prevent the spread of communism
• US policy to prevent communism from spreading to new places
• CCC, AAA, TVA, - all meant to create jobs/relief for Americans in the 30s
• Programs meant to fight poverty; Medicare, Medicaid

Containment

• US policy to prevent communism from spreading to new places
• $ the United States sent to Europe to prevent the spread of communism
• Ended discrimination in public spaces
• Laws passed by Congress to keep the US out of WWII

McCarthyism

• Accusations of communism during the Red Scare in the Cold War
• US policy to prevent communism from spreading to new places
• Economic policy that cut taxes for the wealthy
• Ended discrimination in public spaces

Brown vs Board of Education

• Case that overturned “separate but equal” and integrated schools
• Upheld the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII
• Ended discrimination in public spaces
• Accusations of communism during the Red Scare in the Cold War

Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Led the Montgomery Bus Boycott, March on Washington
• Ended discrimination in public spaces
• Programs meant to fight poverty; Medicare, Medicaid
• Forced Nixon to resign from office

Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Ended discrimination in public spaces
• Forced Nixon to resign from office
• US policy to prevent communism from spreading to new places
• Led the Montgomery Bus Boycott, March on Washington