Early Cold War
This was the primary goal of all US foreign policy including the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan in the decades following WWII
What is the policy of containment?
President Eisenhower's theory that if Vietnam falls to communism, the rest of Southeast Asia will also fall to communism.
What is the Domino Theory?
NAME THAT PRESIDENT
-Moral Diplomacy
-Lusitania Sunk
-Zimmerman Telegram
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
This helped Veterans after WWII transition back into a peacetime economy. It helped 2 million attend college and more than 5 million receive other training.
What is the GI Bill (or Servicemen's Readjustment Act)?
This book written in 1962 about the dangers of pesticides began the environmental protection movement.
This proxy war was fought between 1950 and 1953 over the 38th parallel, with no advancement on either side
What is the Korean War?
Student protests against the bombing in Cambodia and opposition to the war in Vietnam led to 4 students being killed in Ohio (then 8 days later in Mississippi)
What is Kent State (Jackson State)?
The leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycotts and the foremost advocate for active, nonviolent protests
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr?
In 1955, this woman's arrest would spark African American protests and boycotts of the Montgomery city buses.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This group of students were the first to integrate in Arkansas schools and were escorted by the national guard when Eisenhower deployed troops
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
This blockade of Soviet ships was the closest the US and USSR came to nuclear war (lasted for 13 days)
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
What was Nixon’s policy to slowly return power and responsibility to South Vietnam (only to see it fall to communism)?
What is Vietnamization?
The landmark Supreme Court decision that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and desegregated schools
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka?
Leader of the Nation of Islam and advocate for black nationalism and separatist movement
Who is Malcolm X?
The term for the group of people born post WWII composed the largest sector of age groups in (17 year olds in 1964)
Who are Baby Boomers?
First treaty in which the U.S. became part of a major alliance with European powers.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
This resolution authorized LBJ to take “any necessary measures” to retaliate from an incident in Vietnam in which two destroyers were fired upon; escalated the war in Vietnam
What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
LBJ’s “War on Poverty” program, including healthcare and education, was often underfunded because of the costs of the Vietnam War
What is the Great Society?
Politician who would lead an Anti-Communist campaign that created hysteria and paranoia throughout the U.S.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
Betty Friedan co-founded this group in 1966
What is NOW (National Organization for Women)?
This committee used fear tactics and gained publicity during the 1950s for its investigations of communist sympathizers
What is HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)?
This Viet-Cong offensive in 1968 targeted South Vietnam and American military posts and began to change public perception about the chances of “winning”
What is the TET Offensive?
The most important piece of civil rights legislation since the Civil War that caused a division in Southern Democrats
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Misinformation from military and civilian leaders combined with Johnson's reluctance to speak frankly to the American people about the scope and costs of the Vietnam War created what the media called a _____ _____.
What is a credibility gap?
In 1957, Martin Luther King organized ministers and churches in the South to get behind the civil rights struggle by forming this organization...
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
What is the military-industrial complex?
Declaration to support Asian nations in the future through financial aid more than through military aid.
What is the Nixon Doctrine?
The leader and co-founder of the United Farm Workers who actively lead a hunger strike and held rallies to call for better pay and working conditions for migrant workers
Who is Cesar Chavez?
The term for mutual coexistence used during the Cold War
What is detente?
This conservative political action group, started by Jerry Falwell, was formed in response to the liberal policies of the 1970s and pushed for a ban on abortions, allowing school prayer.
What is the Moral Majority?