1 - Governments

• Presidential democracy: vote for pres. and congress

• Parliamentary democracy: vote only for parliament

• Constitutional monarchy: king/queen, limited rule

• Absolute monarchy: king queen, total power• Dictatorship: total power, rule through fear• Theocracy: religious leader is civic leader

2 - Economics

• Market: gov’t hands off, private ownership• Mixed: gov’t and private ownership• Command: gov’t control of economy

3 - Progressives

• Reformers• Fix the problems of industrialism

4 - Four Goals

• Protecting Social Welfare• Promoting Moral Improvement• Creating Economic Reform• Fostering Efficiency

5 - Conservation

• So there is land available for future generations

6 - Tariff

• Tax on imports• Lower – increase competition and choice• Raise – to protect American businesses

7 – Antitrust legislation

• Increase competition and choice

8 - Muckrakers

• Journalists writing about corruption of business– Ex: Upton Sinclair, The Jungle

9 – 19th Amendment

• Women’s suffrage• 1920 election

10 – 1920s

• Changing roles of women• Rebelling against traditional values• Prohibition – organized crime

11 – Great Migration

• Movement of African Americans from rural south to urban north

• Looking for jobs, less discrimination• Effects: Harlem Renaissance – art/culture

12 - Nativism

• Prejudice against foreign born• Red Scare – fear of Communism

13 - Depression

• Unemployment and business failures

14 - Hoover

• Hoover was “hands-off” the economy• Did not use gov’t money for direct aid to poor

15 – New Deal

• FDR’s programs to fix depression• LOTS of gov’t involvement in economy• FDIC – insures $$ in banks• S.S. – old age insurance and unemployment

benefits

16 – Dust Bowl

• Overproduction of land and drought caused dust storms

• Middle America

17 – 1930s

• Domestic - $$ to fix the depression

18 – US and WWII

• Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

19 – Japanese-Americans

• Sent to internment camps

20 - Women

• Joined Army (WAAC)• Worked in place of men in factories

21 – Big Three

• U.S. – FDR• Great Britain – Churchill• Soviet Union - Stalin

22 – GI Bill

• Helped soldiers transition back into civilian life• Provided cheap home loans – move to

suburbs

23 - Amendments

• 13: abolish slavery• 14: citizenship• 15: voting rights for black males

24 - Segregation

• Jim Crow – segregation laws• Plessy v. Ferguson (separate but equal)• Brown v. Board of Education

25 – Civil Rights

• Parks – bus boycott• King – “I have a dream” speech• Wallace – segregationist governor of Alabama• Marshall – lawyer on Brown v. Board• Malcolm X – take ACTION to get rights

26 – C.R. laws

• 1964: no discrimination in public places• 1965: get rid of barriers to voting – no literacy

tests

27 – Berlin Airlift

• Flew supplies into West Berlin b/c we didn’t want it to fall to Communism

28 – Space Race

• Btwn. Soviet Union and U.S.• Sparked by Sputnik – Soviet satellite into

space

29 - McCarthyism

• Being communists

30 – Marshall Plan

• Economic support from U.S. to help W. European countries rebuild after WWII

31 – 1950 - 1953

• Korea

32 – 60s and 70s

• Vietnam

33 - Bay of Pigs

• Failed invasion of Cuba to overthrow Castro

34 – Cuban Missile Crisis

• JFK uses blockade to keep more missiles from reaching Cuba

• Soviets would remove missiles if we promise not to invade (and remove missiles from Turkey)

35 – Peace Corps

• Help developing nations in Asia, Africa, and Latin America (education, health care, etc)

36 – Ease tensions

• Hot line to Soviet Union• Limited Test Ban Treaty

37 – Johnson’s Programs

• EOA: money for job training, small business loans, etc

• Great Society: increase standard of living

38 - Vietnam

• To stop spread of Communism• France was our ally in WWII

• Gulf of Tonkin Incident

39 – Living Room War

• Watch battles on t.v.• Saw something diff. than what the gov’t told

us

40 – Fighting in Vietnam

• Many wealthy Americans got college deferment from the draft