COLD WAR POLICIES
This U.S. policy aimed to stop the spread of communism globally.
What is containment?
This Supreme Court case declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This law gave WWII veterans benefits such as college tuition and home loans.
What is the GI Bill?
This 1962 crisis brought the U.S. and Soviet Union close to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This political scandal involved a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters and a cover-up that led to Nixon’s resignation.
What is Watergate?
This 2008 event was historic because it showed that an African American could be elected President of the United States only 40 years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
What is the election of Barack Obama?
This term described the division between democratic Western Europe and communist Eastern Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
This labor leader organized farm workers and led boycotts for better working conditions.
Who is César Chávez?
This period of anti-communist fear led to blacklists and accusations without evidence.
What is McCarthyism?
This theory argued that if one country in Southeast Asia fell to communism, neighboring countries would likely follow.
What is the Domino Theory?
This policy of easing tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union defined much of Nixon’s foreign policy.
What is détente?
These terrorist attacks killed about 3,000 people and led the United States into the War on Terror.
What are the September 11 attacks?
This program provided billions in U.S. aid to rebuild Western Europe and prevent economic instability that could lead to communist influence.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This 1964 law banned discrimination in public accommodations.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This act created a national highway system and encouraged suburban growth.
What is the Interstate Highway Act?
Passed in 1964, this resolution gave President Johnson broad authority to use military force in Vietnam without a formal declaration of war.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
Passed in 1973, this law limited the president’s ability to commit U.S. troops to military action without congressional approval.
What is the War Powers Act?
This president was impeached by the House of Representatives for lying under oath about his relationship with a White House intern.
Who is Bill Clinton?
This policy marked a turning point by committing the U.S. to support countries like Greece and Turkey against communist pressure.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This 1965 law eliminated barriers like literacy tests and increased Black voter registration.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
This set of programs under Lyndon B. Johnson aimed to reduce poverty and expand education and healthcare.
What is the Great Society?
This 1968 military campaign by North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces contradicted U.S. claims of progress and increased opposition to the war.
What is the Tet Offensive?
This 1978 agreement, brokered by President Carter, resulted in peace between Egypt and Israel and the return of the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt.
What are the Camp David Accords?
This economic policy emphasized tax cuts, reduced government spending, and deregulation to address stagflation.
What is Reaganomics?
This 1950 conflict marked the first major military test of containment and set the precedent for U.S. involvement in future Cold War proxy wars.
What is the Korean War?
This 1948 executive order ended segregation in the U.S. military.
What is Executive Order 9981?
This federal law increased funding for science and math education after Sputnik.
What is the National Defense Education Act?
Signed in 1973, this agreement led to the withdrawal of U.S. troops and attempted to establish peace in Vietnam.
What are the Paris Peace Accords?
This crisis began in 1979 when Iranian revolutionaries seized the U.S. embassy and held American hostages for over a year.
What is the Iran Hostage Crisis?
This event symbolized the collapse of communist control in Eastern Europe and the approaching end of the Cold War.
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?