Cold War Conflicts
Foreign policy used to control the spread of Communism
What is containment?
President who created the policy of containment
Who is Harry Truman?
Supreme Court case ending school segregation
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
1960s movement that rejected traditional values, going for peace and love
What is the counterculture?
Resolution that allowed LBJ to escalate the Vietnam War
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
U.S. program that gave aid to rebuild Western Europe after WWII
What is the Marshall Plan?
President associated with the New Frontier
Who is John F. Kennedy?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Book by Betty Friedan that sparked second-wave feminism
What is The Feminine Mystique?
1968 surprise attack by North Vietnamese forces
What is the Tet Offensive?
U.S. fought the spread of communism in Asia, 1950-1953
What is the Korean War?
President who increased U.S. involvement in Vietnam after the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Who is Lyndon B. Jonhson?
Law in 1964 that banned segregation in public places
Supreme Court case that legalized abortion across the nation
Policy that slowly withdrew U.S.. troops, giving control to South Vietnam
What is Vietnamization?
The conflict that brought the U.S. and USSR closest to nuclear wear
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
President who pursued détente with the Soviets
Who is Richard Nixon?
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
1969 music festival that was the peak of the counterculture movement
What is Woodstock?
Agreement that ended U.S. involvement in Vietnam
What are the Paris Peace Accords?
The U.S. tried to prevent communism taking over Southeast Asia
What is the Vietnam War?
President who sold WIN buttons
Who is Gerald Ford?
Militant civil rights group developed in the late 1960s, promoting Black Power
What is the Black Panther Party?
Program developed by LBJ to stop poverty and racial injustice
What is the Great Society?
Massacre of Vietnamese people by the U.S. soldiers
What is the My Lai Massacre?