Unit 6: Early Cold War
U.S. policy to stop the spread of communism.
Containment
This system of state and local laws enforced racial segregation in the South.
Jim Crow laws
This theory argued that if one country fell to communism, nearby countries would also fall.
Domino Theory
This president negotiated the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel.
Jimmy Carter
This was President Lyndon B. Johnson’s domestic reform program that aimed to reduce poverty, expand healthcare, improve education, protect civil rights, and address urban problems.
the Great Society
U.S. program to rebuild Western Europe after WWII.
Marshall Plan
This Supreme Court case ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
Brown v. Board of Education
This policy was Nixon’s plan to gradually withdraw U.S. troops while shifting more fighting responsibility to the South Vietnamese army.
Vietnamization
This 1989 event symbolized the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe.
fall of the Berlin Wall
This U.S. government agency was created in 1958 after the Soviet launch of Sputnik increased fears that the United States was falling behind in science, technology, and the Space Race.
NASA
What Cold War-era fear and related government/political actions led to investigations, accusations, blacklists, and violations of civil liberties against suspected communists in the United States?
Second Red Scare / McCarthyism and HUAC
This student-led organization used sit-ins, Freedom Rides, and voter registration drives to push for civil rights.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
This 1968 offensive shocked Americans because it showed that communist forces could still launch major attacks across South Vietnam.
Tet Offensive
Supporters argued this Reagan-era economic policy encouraged growth and investment, while critics argued it increased income inequality and added to federal deficits.
Reaganomics
The 1955 lynching of this 14-year-old in Mississippi exposed the brutality of Jim Crow violence after his mother chose to hold an open-casket funeral.
Emmett Till
These 1950s trends showed conformity
- Two needed
Levittown/suburbs, the cult of domesticity/ traditional family roles, television culture, and mass consumerism
The March on Washington helped build pressure for this law, which banned segregation in public accommodations and discrimination in employment.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This secret government study, leaked in 1971, showed that several presidential administrations had misled the public about Vietnam.
the Pentagon Papers
During the 1990s, this technology changed American life by expanding communication, online research, business, entertainment, and eventually the way people received news and information.
The internet
This 1969 music festival became a major symbol of the counterculture movement, peace, music, and youth opposition to war.
Woodstock
This Soviet achievement created panic in the United States because it suggested the USSR might be ahead in missile technology, education, and scientific research.
Sputnik
This law banned literacy tests and allowed federal oversight of elections in states with histories of voter suppression.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This 1968 massacre of Vietnamese civilians became a symbol of the moral problems of search-and-destroy missions and body-count warfare.
My Lai Massacre
This 1991 war involved a U.S.-led coalition forcing Iraq out of Kuwait
Persian Gulf War / Operation Desert Storm?
This nickname was given to Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative missile defense plan
Star Wars
Eisenhower warned that this Cold War development could cause military needs, defense industries, scientific research, and government policy to become too closely connected.
military-industrial complex
This civil rights leader wrote, “Justice too long delayed is justice denied,” while defending nonviolent direct action from a Birmingham jail.
This civil rights leader warned in 1964, “It’s got to be the ballot or the bullet,” while arguing for Black political power and self-defense.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X
Name at least two reasons why the United States struggled to end the war in Vietnam swiftly
Guerrilla warfare tactics, Ho Chi Minh Trail, South Vietnam’s government was weak and unstable, The U.S. struggled to identify the enemy, Bombing did not break North Vietnam’s will to fight
Two major components of the Affordable Care Act
Health Insurance Marketplaces,
Subsidies / Financial Help
Medicaid Expansion
Preexisting Condition Protections
Young Adults Can Stay on Parents’ Plans Until Age 26
Preventive Care Coverage
What were the main goals of second-wave feminism during the 1960s and 1970s
pushed for equal rights in the workplace, education, politics, reproductive rights, and challenged traditional gender roles.
After a 13-day nuclear standoff in 1962, this agreement ended the crisis between the United States and Soviet Union.
the Soviet Union removed missiles from Cuba, the U.S. promised not to invade Cuba, and the U.S. secretly removed missiles from Turkey
Secret FBI program that surveilled, infiltrated, and disrupted civil rights and Black Power organizations.
COINTELPRO
How did anti-war groups such as Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) influence opposition to the Vietnam War?
1968 DNC Protest in Chicago, Winter Soldier Investigation
This 2001 law expanded government surveillance powers after 9/11 and raised civil liberties concerns.
The Patriot Act
This is the total number of U.S. presidential impeachment events, and these are their names.
Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump x2