Senator from Wisconsin who saw red everywhere especially in the State Department.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
100
massive transfer of aid money to help rebuild Western Europe
What is the Marshall Plan?
100
led by Rosa Parks and her "fake" refusal to move to the back of the bus
What is the Montgomery bus boycott?
100
the barrier constructed between this torn city in 1961
What is the Berlin Wall?
100
Kennedy's nickname for his domestic policy agenda
What is the New Frontier?
200
leader of the Chinese Nationalists who escaped to Taiwan, who became the President of the Republic of China
Who is Chiang Kai-shek?
200
support for any people fighting any communist or communist inspired threat
What is the Truman Doctrine?
200
written by Betty Friedan, which challenged the conception of what a woman wanted and didn't want
What is The Feminine Mystique?
200
1961. CIA plot to overthrow Castro. Failed and JFK could have been targeted by our own government
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
200
Standoff between JFK and Nikita Khrushchev. Close to zero hour
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
300
Big Three, who would establish the Iron Curtain in Central Europe
Who is Josef Stalin?
300
the recommendation to quadruple defense spending and rapidly expand peacetime armed forces to address Cold War Tensions.
What is NSC Memorandum Number 68?
300
government operation that wanted to round up and deport more than a million illegal Mexican workers.
What is Operation Wetback?
300
1956. demonstrations against the Soviet Union. Its failure showed the limitations the United States had in Eastern Europe
What are the Hungarian uprisings
300
artistic genius who defined the pop artist movement during the Cold War
Who is Andy Warhol?
400
former general during World War II, who would later become secretary of state
Who is George Marshall?
400
Military alliance across the ocean that was established to protect against the common threat from the Soviet Union
What is NATO or North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
400
group of bohemian writers and personalities that bemoaned conformity and advocated free-form experimentation
What is the Beat Generation?
400
1956. without the aid o the United States our Western Allies were unable to bring down the regime of Gamal Abdel Nasser
What is the Suez Canal?
400
officially known as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, helped reintegrate men into civilian life
What is the GI Bill?
500
author of the Containment doctrine, which stipulated that the Soviet Union needed to b estopped via political and military force
Who is George Kennan?
500
order by Truman that came from a combination of pressure from civil right advocates, election-year political calculations, and the realization that the world was different following victory during World War II
What is Executive Order 9981?
500
program of manned space flights run by NASA, which wanted to place a man on the moon by 1969
What is the Apollo Program?
500
scientific achievement that prompted American leaders and citizens to fear that they would fall behind the Soviet Union
What is Sputnik?
500
Chief Justice that decided Brown v Board of Education, Griswold v Connecticut, and Miranda v Arizona