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Treaty of Paris 1898
It was the treaty that ended the Spanish-American war. -
NAACP
It was an organization that ensured the political, educational, social, and econmomic equaity of rights of all people and to eliminate racial discrimination. -
Selective Service System
It gave the president the power to draft men for military service. -
Fourteen Points
It was a speech given by Woodrow Wilson that was intended to assure the counrty that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe. -
Fordney-McCumber Tariff
This tariff law raised the average American tariff rate to 38.5%. It was signed by Warren Harding. -
Scopes Trial
It was a case about the teaching of science and evolution in schools. John T. Scopes was arrested for teaching evolution to his students. He was found guilty and ordered to pay a $100 fine. Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan were the attorneys. -
Chinese Civil War
It was fought between the Kuomintang (KMT or Chinese Nationalist Party) and the Communist Party of China (CPC). The war began in April 1927, amidst the Northern Expedition. -
Agricultural Adjustment Act
(AAA) This act restricted agricultural production in the New Deal era, by paying farmers to reduce crop area. -
Munich Pact
It was an agreement permitting Nazi Germany annexation of Czecholoslovakia's sudetenland. -
Grapes of Wrath
It was a novel written by John Steinbeck, It was published in 1939. Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on a poor family of sharecroppers, the Joads, driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, and changes in the agriculture industry. -
Return to Normalcy
It was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding’s campaign promise in the election of 1920. -
Lend Lease ACt
It permitted the president of the U.S. to sell,exchange, lease, lend, or dispose of any government whose defense to the president seems vital to the defense. -
Atlantic Charter
It was an agreement between Britain and the U.S., it was intended as a blueprint for the postwar world after World War II. It turned out to be the foundation for many international agreemnets that currently shape the world. -
Office of Price Administration
It was created to control prices and rents after the outbreak of World War II. -
War Production Board
The purpose of the board was to regulate the production and allocation of materials and fuel during World War II in the US. -
Battle of Stalingrad
A major battle in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in southwestern Russia. It took place between July 17, 1942 and February 2, 1943 and is often cited as one of the turning points in the war. -
D-Day
It was the day of the Normandy landings, initiating the western allied effort to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation during WWII. -
GI Bill of Rights
(Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944) It was a bill that provided college or vocational education for returning World War II veterans (G.I.s) as well as one year of unemployment compensation. It provided many different types of loans for returning veterans to buy homes and start businesses. -
Battle of the Bulge
It was a major German offensive launched towards the end of WWII.there were 70,000 to 81,000 casualties, including about 19,000 killed. It was the largest and bloodiest battle that American forces had fought in WWII. -
The Fair Deal
United States President Harry Truman addressed Congress and presented a 21 point program of domestic legislation outlining a series of proposed actions in the fields of economic development and social welfare. The proposals to Congress became more and more abundant and by 1948 a legislative program that was more comprehensive came to be known as the Fair Deal. -
Truman Doctrine
It is the common name for the Cold War strategy of containment versus the Soviet Union and the expansion of communism. -
Marshall Plan
It was created for rebuilding and creating a stronger economic foundation for the countries of Western Europe. -
Korean War
It was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and People's Republic of China (PRC), with air support from the Soviet Union. The war began on June 25,1950 and an armistice was signed on July 27,1953. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
It was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students and denying black children equal educational opportunities unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896, which permitted segregation. -
1960 election
marked the end of Dwight D. Eisenhower's two terms as President. Eisenhower's Vice President, Richard Nixon was the Republican candidate, whereas the Democrats nominated Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy. The electoral vote was the closest in any presidential election since 1916. In the popular vote, Kennedy's margin of victory was among the closest ever in American history. -
The Feminine Mystique
is a book written by Betty Friedan. It was about women's roles and was a part of the women's movement. -
Warren Commission
The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known unofficially as the Warren Commission, was established on November 29, 1963, by Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy on November 22. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
It was a resolution of the U.S. Congress in response to a sea battle between the North Vietnamese Navy's Torpedo Squadron 135 and the destroyer USS Maddox. -
Black Panthers
It was an African-American revolutionary organization working for the self-defense for black people. The Black Panther Party had deep involvement in the Black Power movement and in US politics of the 1960s and 70s, fighting against racism. -
Equal Rights Amendment
It was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution which was intended to guarantee that equal rights under any federal, state, or local law could not be denied on account of sex. The ERA was originally written by Alice Paul. In 1972, it passed both houses of Congress, but failed to gain ratification before its June 30, 1982 deadline.
