USA

• when were women given the right to vote

  1920
• what is the Volstead act


  law banning the manufacturing and selling of alcohol
• when was the volstead act in place?

  1920 - 1933
• when was the first talkie made

  1927
• when was the wall street crash

  1929
• when did america join ww2

  1941
• when was the emergency banking relief act

  1933
• when did china become communist

  1949
• when was the Korean war?

  1950-1953
• When did Malcolm X join the NOI?

  1952
• Brown vs Board of education


  1954

  saw an end to separate but equal

  schools were to desegregate with 'all deliberate speed'

  proves that laws can be changed
• When was the Montgomery bus boycott

  1955
• when was bus segregation illegalised?

  1956
• Little rock 9


  1957

  increase in KKK numbers

  1,100 paratroopers sent in

  tested Brown vs Board

  The children were blocked from school for 18 days
• when did cuba become communist

  1959
• Where is Dixie Land

  the south
• when does the USSR put missiles on cuba?

  1962
• What is the name of the book by Betty Friedman, published 1963


  The Feminine Mystique
• Birmingham protest


  1963

  900 children arrested

  Chief 'Bull' Connor used dogs and water cannons in protesters

  lunch counters, toilets and drinking fountains were desegregated within 90 days
• Equal pay act


  1963

  prohibits gender-based wage discrimination

  Meant employees could file a complaint about discrimination
• what is medicare


  medical insurance for those 65 and over
• what is medicaid?


  hospital care for the poor
• March on Selma


  to demand voting rights

  25,000 attended

  1 campaigner killed -> lots of violence
• When was the voting rights act passed

  1965
• What was the Long Hot Summer in 1967


  163 cities were filled with violence over police brutality
• when was roe vs wade

  1973
• How many took part in the Montgomery bus boycott?

  17,000
• What were three successes/ achievements of the bus boycotts?

  buses were desegregated by the end of 1956

  proved people will suffer for their rights

  organisation is good to build momentum
• Sit ins


  In 1960

  approx 50,000 took part

  126 cities desegregated lunch counters by the end of the 60's

  proves that non-violence work
• The House Un-American Activities Committee


  They could investigate anyone who seemed communist

  targeted anyone who could teach/ have influence

  Investigated 10 Hollywood directors who got blacklisted

  Later deemed as unconsitutional
• What was McCarthyism


  The huge and widespread fear about the number of secret communists living in the USA, spreading communism and spying for the USSR
• How did McCarthy get 'famous'

  He claimed to have a list of communists in the government
• The McCarren Act


  Passed against the presidents wishes -> power of the fear

  stated that all communist organisation had to registered by the government; no communist could own a passport or work in defense industries
• How many singles did elvis release?

  170 +
• what is consumerism?


  The belief you can buy your way to happiness
• What were 3 components of the American Dream?

  suburban house

  good car

  big family
• Teenagers


  term created in the 1940's

  they had more leisure time and spending money then ever before

  synonymus of rebellion
• Rock and Roll


  Ended Frank Sinatra's career

  influenced all pop for then onward

  gave teens a personality and created the divide between parents and teens
• 'permanently changed the face of American pop culture' - President Carter after Elvis' death
• 83% of households had a TV by ehe end of the 50's