Cold Fronts & Hot Threats
What was the U.S. policy aimed at stopping the spread of communism called?
What is containment?
This type of residential development became symbolic of 1950s suburban growth.
What is a Levittown?
This Supreme Court case ended segregation in public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This young president was elected in 1960 and inspired a generation with his call to service.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This music festival in 1969 became a symbol of the counterculture movement.
What is Woodstock?
This 1947 plan provided economic aid to rebuild Western Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The rise of this new device changed American entertainment and politics in the 1950s.
What is television?
He gave the “I Have a Dream” speech during the 1963 March on Washington.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
The failed 1961 invasion of Cuba by U.S.-backed exiles is known as this.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
This African American athlete broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball in 1947.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
In 1948, the U.S. responded to a Soviet blockade by organizing this massive airlift.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This government act helped returning WWII veterans attend college and buy homes.
What is the G.I. Bill?
This protest strategy, used by groups like SNCC, involved occupying segregated lunch counters.
What are sit-ins?
This 1962 standoff brought the U.S. and Soviet Union close to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The U.S. and USSR competed in this technological and space competition during the Cold War.
What is the Space Race?
This U.S. senator led a series of investigations during the Red Scare, accusing many of being communists.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
This genre of music, popularized by artists like Elvis Presley, emerged as a defining sound of the 1950s.
What is Rock and Roll?
This 1965 event in Alabama highlighted the violent resistance to African American voting rights.
What is the Selma to Montgomery March?
This domestic agenda, launched by President Johnson, aimed to end poverty and racial injustice.
What is the Great Society?
This style of protest music gained popularity during the 1960s anti-war movement.
What is folk music?
The military alliance formed in 1949 to counter Soviet power in Europe was known as this.
What is NATO?
This Cold War-era civil defense drill taught schoolchildren to respond to a nuclear attack by hiding under their desks.
What is "Duck and Cover"?
This civil rights leader advocated for Black empowerment and separatism, and was assassinated in 1965.
Who is Malcolm X?
This 1969 event saw American astronauts land on the moon, achieving a major Cold War milestone.
What is the Apollo 11 moon landing?
This Supreme Court decision in 1973 legalized abortion nationwide.
What is Roe v. Wade