A-Level History- America
'The President's Committee on Civil Rights' founded - ANS 1946
\A court case in which the segregation of schools was declared to be unconstitutional -
ANS Brown v Board of Education
\A court case that declared that a black man had not been discriminated against when he
was asked to sit in the coloured carriage of train - ANS Plessy v Ferguson
\A limited number of administrators and hence a lower cost in taxation - ANS Small
government
\A protest against segregated buses by riding on them through the southern states of
America - ANS The Journey of Reconciliation
\A top secret document that suggested an increase of defence spending to $50 billion a
year - ANS NSC-68
\An act that gave returning soldiers benefits - ANS GI Bill
\An African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist, who was assassinated -
ANS Malcom X
\An ideological attitude where the government tries to minimise its involvement in the
everyday lives of the population - ANS Non-intervention
\Berlin Airlift - ANS March 1948 to May 1949
\Brown v Board of Education - ANS 1954
\Civil Rights Act- Eisenhower - ANS 1957
\Communist China is established - ANS October 1949
\CORE founded - ANS 1942
\Eisenhower becomes president - ANS January 1953
\Eisenhower's Civil Rights Act ? - ANS Prevented people from interfering with people's
right to vote
\Executive order - ANS An order issued by the president, with full effect, even though
Congress approval is not necessary
\FDR dies and Truman becomes President - ANS 12 April 1945
\Federal Aid Highway Act - ANS 1956
\GI Bill set up - ANS 1944
\Great Migration - ANS the movement of over 6 million African-Americans out of the rural
South to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970.
\Intransigence - ANS Refusal to change one's views about something
\Japanese Occupation - ANS 1952
\Journey of Reconciliation - ANS April 1947
\Korean War begins - ANS June 1950
\Marshall Plan - ANS February 1948
\McCarthyism - ANS 1950-1956
\Monetary boost into western europe by the U.S. - ANS Marshall Plan
\Montgomery Bus Boycott - ANS 1955-1956
\NAACP founded - ANS 1909
'The President's Committee on Civil Rights' founded - ANS 1946
\A court case in which the segregation of schools was declared to be unconstitutional -
ANS Brown v Board of Education
\A court case that declared that a black man had not been discriminated against when he
was asked to sit in the coloured carriage of train - ANS Plessy v Ferguson
\A limited number of administrators and hence a lower cost in taxation - ANS Small
government
\A protest against segregated buses by riding on them through the southern states of
America - ANS The Journey of Reconciliation
\A top secret document that suggested an increase of defence spending to $50 billion a
year - ANS NSC-68
\An act that gave returning soldiers benefits - ANS GI Bill
\An African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist, who was assassinated -
ANS Malcom X
\An ideological attitude where the government tries to minimise its involvement in the
everyday lives of the population - ANS Non-intervention
\Berlin Airlift - ANS March 1948 to May 1949
\Brown v Board of Education - ANS 1954
\Civil Rights Act- Eisenhower - ANS 1957
\Communist China is established - ANS October 1949
\CORE founded - ANS 1942
\Eisenhower becomes president - ANS January 1953
\Eisenhower's Civil Rights Act ? - ANS Prevented people from interfering with people's
right to vote
\Executive order - ANS An order issued by the president, with full effect, even though
Congress approval is not necessary
\FDR dies and Truman becomes President - ANS 12 April 1945
\Federal Aid Highway Act - ANS 1956
\GI Bill set up - ANS 1944
\Great Migration - ANS the movement of over 6 million African-Americans out of the rural
South to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970.
\Intransigence - ANS Refusal to change one's views about something
\Japanese Occupation - ANS 1952
\Journey of Reconciliation - ANS April 1947
\Korean War begins - ANS June 1950
\Marshall Plan - ANS February 1948
\McCarthyism - ANS 1950-1956
\Monetary boost into western europe by the U.S. - ANS Marshall Plan
\Montgomery Bus Boycott - ANS 1955-1956
\NAACP founded - ANS 1909
