Truman and Eisenhower
Truman's domestic program — national health insurance, higher minimum wage, federal aid to education — went by this name, though Congress blocked most of it.
What is the Fair Deal?
This Wisconsin senator claimed in a 1950 Wheeling speech to hold a list of Communists in the State Department.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
MacArthur's September 1950 amphibious landing behind enemy lines at this port reversed the course of the Korean War
What is Inchon?
The 1954 Geneva Accords temporarily divided Vietnam at this parallel
What is the 17th parallel?
Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne to escort nine Black students into Central High School in this city in 1957.
What is Little Rock?
Passed over Truman's veto in 1947, this law outlawed the closed shop and permitted states to adopt "right to work" statutes.
What is the Taft-Hartley Act?
Alger Hiss was convicted in 1950 not of espionage but of this, because the statute of limitations had expired.
What is perjury?
The Korean armistice of July 1953 restored the boundary at roughly this line.
What is the 38th parallel?
The U.S.-backed South Vietnamese president was assassinated in a November 1963 coup with American knowledge.
Who is Ngo Dinh Diem?
Four students from North Carolina A&T launched this tactic at a Woolworth's lunch counter in February 1960.
What is the sit-in (Greensboro sit-ins)?
Strom Thurmond led this 1948 walkout party of southern Democrats protesting the civil rights plank; Truman won anyway.
What are the Dixiecrats (States' Rights Democratic Party)?
This couple was executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage involving atomic secrets.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
The CIA helped overthrow Mohammad Mossadegh in this country in 1953 after he nationalized the oil industry.
What is Iran?
Johnson's sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam, begun in 1965, carried this code name
Operation Rolling Thunder?
CORE organized these 1961 bus journeys to test desegregation of interstate terminals; a bus was firebombed in Anniston, Alabama.
What are the Freedom Rides?
Eisenhower accepted the New Deal's core programs while restraining federal growth elsewhere, an approach he called this.
What is Modern Republicanism (dynamic conservatism)?
Army counsel Joseph Welch's question — "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" — came during these televised 1954 hearings.
What are the Army-McCarthy hearings?
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles described his willingness to go to the edge of war to deter aggression with this term.
What is brinkmanship?
Nixon's policy of withdrawing U.S. troops while building up South Vietnamese forces went by this name.
What is Vietnamization?
King chose Birmingham in 1963 partly because this commissioner's reaction — dogs and fire hoses — was predictable and televisable.
Who is Bull Connor?
The Soviet downing of this aircraft in May 1960 wrecked the Paris summit and forced Eisenhower to admit to spying.
What is the U-2?
Arthur Miller's 1953 play used the Salem witch trials as an allegory for McCarthyism.
What is The Crucible?
A 1954 CIA-backed coup removed Jacobo Árbenz in this Central American nation after he expropriated United Fruit Company land.
What is Guatemala?
Passed over Nixon's veto in 1973, this law required the president to notify Congress within 48 hours of committing troops.
What is the War Powers Act (War Powers Resolution)?
Fannie Lou Hamer's televised testimony on behalf of this group challenged Mississippi's all-white delegation at the 1964 Democratic convention.
What is the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party?