U.S. II – Final Exam Jeopardy Civil Rights1920’sDepression/ New Deal WWIIVocabularyPotpourri

type of segregation based on traditions and customs rather than the law home

African American baseball player who broke the color barrier in 1945 home

Civil Rights group led by Martin Luther King Jr. who organized non-violent protests including the March on Washington in 1963 home

Founder and lawyer of the NAACP whose most important victory was Brown v Board (1954) home

Executive Order signed by President Truman in 1948 to desegregate the armed forces home

type of music associated with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington home

court case that resulted from a biology teacher in Tennessee who challenged a law that said evolution could not be taught in a public school home

formed in 1920 to influence government and public policy by educating voters about public issues home

signed in 1928 to try to settle international disputes by peaceful means rather than war home

an economic system that relies on private ownership of property, competition, and supply and demand home

environmental crisis in the early 1930’s in the Midwest which caused farmers to move westward in search of a better life home

nickname given to FDR’s first few months in office when he passed more than 100 pieces of New Deal legislation home

nickname given to shantytowns during the Great Depression showing displeasure in how the president handled it home

New Deal program passed in 1933 to help reduce farmer’s crop production in order to raise crop prices home

passed in 1930 to raise tariffs on imported goods to protect US businesses but led to worldwide collapse in trade home

led to the death of 11 million people, 6 million of whom were Jewish, by the Nazis in WWII home

formed by Great Britain, France, the US, Soviet Union, and China in WWII home

nickname given to the Allied invasion of France on June 6 th, 1945 home

the beginning and end of WWII for the United States home

a group of Army Air Corps pilots and support crews, established in 1941 as the first black combat unit home

attempts by Civil Rights activist to desegregate the interstate bus system beginning in 1961 home

the top-secret U.S. government project that developed the atomic bomb home

an era of heightened creativity among African American writers, artists, and musicians during the 1920’s home

places Japanese Americans were sent following the Korematsu v. United States ruling home

“lightening war,” the Germany military strategy during WWII of attacking without warning home

Wilson’s plan to end WWI that included the creation of a peacekeeping organization called the League of Nations home

New Deal program that provided benefits to retired people, unemployed, and the disabled home

policy the United States used in the beginning of WWII to send “all aid short of war” to Great Britain home

enacted by the national government following the Great Flood of 1936 home

one of the three “R’s” of the New Deal in which the goal was to provide a long-tern solution to a problem and prevent it from happening again home