Early Cold War
This proxy war took place from 1950 to 1953.
Korean War
International organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace and cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations.
United Nations
The name of the President that ended WWII in the Pacific theatre.
Who is Harry Truman?
This measure authorized President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate from an incident in Vietnam in which two US destroyers were fired upon.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
The idea that if a nation falls under communist control, nearby nations will also fall under communist control.
Domino theory
This Supreme Court case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and desegregated public schools nationwide.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The leader of Soviet Russia during and after WWII.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
This law, which revised much of the pro-labor legislation from the New Deal, allowed union leaders to purge communists from the labor movement.
The Taft-Hartley Act (1947)
Otherwise known as Servicemen’s Readjustment Act- helped veterans continue their education at government expense and receive low interest government backed loans
GI Bill
a law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African American suffrage. Under the law, hundreds of thousands of African Americans were registered, and the number of African American elected officials increased dramatically.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
A prominent member of the US government who proclaimed to have a list of communist spies in the government.
Who is McCarthy?
Americans began to fear that communists were trying to take over US government.
Red Scare
Soviet forces blockaded railroad and water access to Allied-controlled areas of Berlin. The United States and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany.
Berlin Airlift (1948)
a CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. The attack was an utter failure.
Bay of Pigs (1961)
Under this bill, hotels, restaurants, and employers could not discriminate based on race and schools could not be segregated.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The name given to the generation of children born to the families of returning WW2 veterans between 1945 and 1960.
Baby boomers
In 1955, Soviet Union created this defensive alliance with all of its loyal Eastern European satellite nations. Formed as a reaction against NATO and NATO's 1955 decision to invite West Germany to join the organization.
Warsaw Pact
This term refers to an intense effort to root out Communists from every corner of American society — even if those means violated traditional American values.
McCarthyism
The Diggers, Yippies, and Merry Pranksters were all part of this wider movement that sought to challenge mainstream American culture and oppose the Vietnam War.
Counterculture
This organization was formed by students and sought to advance the civil rights movement by coordinating nonviolent attacks on segregation and other forms of racism.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Leader of the UNIA, urged blacks to return to Africa because, he reasoned, blacks would never be treated justly in countries ruled by whites.
Marcus Garvey