Cold War
THIS provided the city of Berlin with supplies for nearly a year after the Soviet Union set up a blockade to stop resources from Great Britain, France, and the U.S.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
THIS is the name of the suburban housing development that represented the growth of the middle class BUT also symbolized the segregation and discrimination that Black Americans faced in suburban housing
What is Levittown?
THIS is the name of the book written by Betty Friedan that symbolized how NOT ALL women or Americans believed in the role of women has housewives or agreed with the "Cult of Domesticity"
What is the Feminine Mystique?
THIS President's upbringing in Missouri led to a surprising support for desegregation of the military in support of advancing Civil Rights for Black Americans.
Who is President Truman?
THIS helped veterans by providing tuition assistance for school and low interest government loans
What is the GI Bill of Rights (1944)?
THESE are the first 2 countries that the U.S. send financial aid (NOT troops) to following the Truman Doctrine. The U.S. sent $400 million worth of military and economic aid.
What are Greece and Turkey?
THIS is the name of the court case that was overturned with Brown vs. Board of education that had originally set a precedent of "Separate But Equal"
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
THESE riots were at a time when being gay was considered a mental illness and Illinois was the only state that recognized homosexuality.
What are the Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village in New York City, New York?
THIS President was known for sending in the National Guard to ensure that the Little Rock 9 were able to attend high school in Arkansas, AND THIS is the President who was known for sending in the National Guard to ensure that James Meredith was able to safely attend college at the University of Mississippi.
Who is President Eisenhower AND who is President John F. Kennedy?
THIS is the term coined by Winston Churchill in 1946 that represented a symbolic division between the Western and Eastern part of Europe and was a call for unity of the Western nations to stop Soviet expansion all together.
What is the Iron Curtain?
THIS ACT was passed to help facilitate movement of people to safe areas in the case of nuclear attack BUT also led to increase of motels, gas stations, and other progress
What is the Interstate Highway Act?
THIS Is the location (city) in which the 4 college students originally began their sit in AND THIS is the name of the business they were protesting against due to segregation of lunch counters.
Able to shop & order food, but not able to sit at the lunch counter.
What is Greensboro, N. Carolina? AND What is Woolworths?
Will expand to 55 cities in 13 states.
THIS seige for Native American rights lasted 71 days and ended with 2 Native American activist being killed, as well as 1 federal agent being shot and paralyzed (not killed). This was a sign of militancy by AIM.
What is Wounded Knee?
THIS is the percentage that President Kennedy increased the defense budget by even though the U.S. was ahead in the Missile Race with the Soviet Union
What is 20%?
THIS was the name of the program under President Truman that called on extending programs and and progress of the New Deal by extending Social Security benfits, increasing Minimum Wage, and supported national health insurance.
What is the "Fair Deal?"
Note - the only thing part of the Fair Deal that was accomplished was an increase in minimum wage from 40 cents to 75 cents.
THIS is the name of the PLAN that was authorized a year after the Truman Doctrine that authorized $13 billion of aid to Western European nations to help rebuild, stimulate U.S. economy, and hopefully encouraged democratic governments instead of communistic governments
What is the Marshall Plan?
THIS is the percentage of average annual income for Black Americans compared to White Americans in the same jobs.
What is 51%?
THIS was the name for the March on Washington by Native Americans that included over 1,000 Natives from 25 states and ended up being a multi-month protest.
What is the Trail of Broken Treaties?
THIS is the amount of money that President Kennedy invested into NASA with his goal of getting a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s
What is $7-9 Billion? (89% increase to the NASA budget)
THIS Doctrine (Foreign Policy) promoted specific involvement in the Middle East and other locations to prevent pro-Communist governments and would replace them with pro-US governments - this was specifically symbolized in Iran and Guatemala?
What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?
THIS was what was used to gain time for Kennedy to receive communication from Khruschev and avoid a nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
You must have the correct terminology because the other term would be considered an act of war.
AND THIS is where the U.S. had to secretly agree to withdraw missiles from.
What is a quarantine? (NOT a blockade)
AND What is Turkey?
THIS Civil Rights leader was associated with the following - Nation of Islam, Black Nationalism, Black Muslims, self-improvement, and separatism AND was NOT a part of the Black Panther Party.
Who is Malcolm X?
THIS Civil Rights leader staged a 28-day hunger strike, led by peaceful protest marches, and appealed for a nationwide boycott of grapes. Pressured by a boycott that grew to include 17 million consumers, growers signed a contract recognizing the United Farm Workers.
Who is Cesar Chavez? (Part of Hispanic Rights Movement)
THIS President was influenced by the book Silent Spring written by Rachel Carson that documented the adverse environmental and health effects caused by widespread use of pesticide AND led to THIS ACT being passed with Presidential support
Who is Nixon AND what is the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
THIS group of Southern Democrats were a short lived segregationist political party and was active primarily in the South. They became well known as a splinter group during the Election of 1948 in opposition to Harry S. Truman's leadership.
Who are the Dixiecrats?