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Harlem Renaissance
A time in the 1920s when African-Americans in Harlem began to achieve a greater standing, and were able to spend more time on creative materials like music, art, architecture and literature. The movement impacted throughout the United States. Black novelists, poets, painters, and playwrights began creating works in their own culture instead of copying the styles of Europeans and white Americans. Some of the nation's greatest writers and performers came out of this movement. -
Stock Market
Companies could price fix their stocks charging more for them then they were worth. Plus a lot of people bought stocks on margin, basically buying a stock with the promise to pay it off later. It became top heavy, too many overvalued stocks and then the bottom fell out. All the people who bought on margin suddenly found themselves having to pay for failing stock, most went broke. Even till this day unregulated stocks and people buying houses on unsecured loans. -
Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was a sand storm mostly around the Oklahoma area and around it. It was caused by new farming methods, but failed to accomplish due to the farmers taking out the sod roots ( they store soil ).Tons of topsoil were blown off barren fields and carried in storm clouds for hundreds of miles. The driest region of the plains became known as the Dust Bowl. About 25% of the population left the affected states, and the price of crops were rising and new farming skills were put into practice. -
Social Security Act
August 15, 1935, President Roosevelt sighned the Social Security Act into law. The act found a sulotion to old-age retirement, giving them a regular payment during their retirement. It register citizens for benefits and provide funds for children, family health programs, unemployment insurance, and benefits for the physically handicapped. -
Pearl Harbor
The attacking of two planes hit their targets, one was 7:53 a.m and the second one was hit at 8:55 a.m. It was all over an hour later and the carriers that launched thw two planes were heading back to Japan. Unfortunately, 2,403 were dead, 188 planes destroyed, and 8 damaged battleships. Japanese planes attacked American in the Philippines. Japanesse kept attacking other countries and all of the events that happen formed a foundation for the American response that led up to a glorious victory. -
Suburbs
The suburbs was it's own little town, it had parks, churches, schools, and etc. Everyone thought it was perfect for a family, it was cheaper and outside the city. The population expanded after WWll and because of this more houses had to be built. Popularity of the suburbs helped the government give GI bills to the veterans of WWll and the Korean war. As the suburbs became more and more popular, railroads and trains were improved and it was thought to be the new way of transportation. -
Pentagon papers
The pentagon papers were articles in the New York Times, that revealed the government's secret war in Cambodia and Laos,. It was lies about troop levels, victories, and other details about Vietnam. They were based on a Department of Defense study of American involvement in Vietnam from 1945-1970, and it shouldn't have ended up to be made public. It provoked huge anti-war protests and made many Americans lose their trust in government. -
Counterculture
The counterculture of the 1960sis a cultural event that started in the United States, United Kingdom, and spreaded through the western world. It ended to flow, regarding the war in Vietnam, race relations, sexual mores, women's rights, and drugs. New cultural forms came together, including the pop music of the British band The Beatles and hippie culture, which led to the rapid evolution. No movement in this country shaped equality, we are still fighting these battles today. -
Berlin Crisis
It was the east german govenment that caused it, they built a wall to spot east Germany citizens from leaving to go to west germany. They also tried to keep goods from going into west germany, and also starve the west germans, America kept berlin alive by airlifting food and other items to west german. To this day a piece of the Berlin wall is still standing. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
American spy planes located the cubans with the help of the Russians building nuclear missile that would strike the US. Kennedy questioned the Russians, they denied it. Kennedy said, "That any building missile's sites in Cuba would be an act of war against the America." He then put a navel blockade around cuba so that nothing could get in or out. The missile crisis had children at school to "Duck and Cover" under their desk to be protected, and that same technique is used today. -
Gulf of Tonkin
August, 1964, President Johnson reported to the nation that American ships had been attacked by North Vietnam gunboats in the Gulf of Tonkin. The Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin, letting the President use whatever force to protect the area. The truth was not reported. At the time, there was confusion and people in the government thought that an attack did occur without doing an investigation. -
Mai Lai Massacre
On 16 March 1968, U.S soldiers entered the village of Mai Lai as part of a search and destroy mission. They killed over 300 men, women, and children, including 70 people who were gathered into a pit and shot dead. Most Americans were digusted and ashamed by it and it changed the attitudes of the Americans towards the war. Not Vietnam who opposed the war but the Americans too. -
Watergate
Nixon was running for reelection, someone broke into the Watergate. The scandal erupted when the perpetrators were part of the Nixon administration. Congress pressured the President for many months to provide these tapes, while the Nixon administration continued to deny that they were even their (NIxon paid them off). Nixon gave them the tapes, it contained 18 minutes of silence that have never been explained. Nixon resigned and the men that worked for him faced years in prison. -
Oil Crisis
The 1973 oil crisis was when the members of OAPEC announced, because of the Yom Kippur War, they would no longer ship petroleum to nations that had supported Israel in its conflict with Syria and Egypt. You could only buy gas on certain days based on license plate numbers.Gas was really expensive and the lines were long. -
Camp David Accords
These agreements was signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. The agreements had two parts, a framework for peace in the Middle East and a framework for the conclusion of a Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel. This led to the 1979 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty. -
Iran Hostage Crisis
President Jimmy Carter tried to negotiate the release of the hostages, but it took the remainder of his presidency to secure their release. He froze Iran's assets and broke off diplomatic relations. Carter would not leave the White House until the hostages had been freed. Iran did not free the hostages until Ronald Reagan had been sworn in as president.
