Truman's Presidency
Germany surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, bringing the end of WWII in Europe
What is V-E Day?
Truman's response to the crisis in Berlin, involving planes flying over and dropping supplies.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This was created to form permanent alliances to protect Western Europe from Communism and Soviet Expansion.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
This overturned Plessy v. Ferguson; allowing for the integration of schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The two candidates who participated in the first televised presidential debates.
Who are John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon?
Japan's Emperor agreed to an unconditional surrender to the Allies in WWII
What is V-J Day?
Security of State George Marshall's plan to provide economic aid to European countries to help rebuilt after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This country fell to Communism in 1949.
What is China?
The idea that if one nation fell to communism, then other nations around them would also fall to communism.
What is the Domino Theory?
JFK's goals for the U.S. of providing medical care for the elderly, funding education, improve U.S. military defense, increase foreign aid, and to increase funding for the space program.
What is the "New Frontier"?
What are the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)?
Committee created in the late 1940s to investigate potential communist threats in the U.S.
What is the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
This senator from Wisconsin began accusing State Department employees, in the 1950s, of being communist.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
This person was arrested leading to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Program created with the goal in mind of "promoting world peace and international friendship."
What are the Peace Corps?
This Tennessean was responsible for the creation of the United Nations (a global peacekeeping organization).
Who is Cordell Hull?
This executive order desegregated the military.
What is Executive Order 9981?
At what parallel is Korea Divided.
What is the 38th parallel?
The state attempted to defy the Supreme Court's ruling by having the state National Guard prevent 9 African American students from attending Little Rock Central High School.
What is Arkansas?
CIA plan to train Cuban exiles to go to Cuba to overthrow Castro.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
Winston Churchill's dire warning about Soviet Expansion in Eastern Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain speech?
What are Greece and Turkey?
Truman's approval rating dropped to a historical low during the war.
The Soviets launched the first unmanned satellite into space that successfully orbited the Earth.
What is Sputnik?
This symbolized the divide between communism and capitalism and democratic principles for most of the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?