Early Cold War
This proxy war was fought between 1950 and 1953 over the 38th parallel, with no advancement on either side
What is the Korean War?
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?
The leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycotts and the foremost advocate for active, nonviolent protests
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr?
What was Nixon’s policy to slowly return power and responsibility to South Vietnam (only to see it fall to communism)?
What is Vietnamization?
Why did JFK move slowly on the issue of African-American civil rights?
He needed the support of Southern Democrats in Congress. (the Dixiecrats)
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?
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?
Besides communists in general, name three individuals or groups that were targeted during the 2nd red scare:
Alger Hiss, the Rosenbergs, the Hollywood 10, Arthur Miller, homosexuals
What was the purpose of the GI Bill:
Provide loans and education to veterans of the military.
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?
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)?
The massacre and cover-up scandalized the war in Vietnam when hundreds of unarmed civilians were brutally killed in 1968
What is the My Lai Massacre?
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?
This group organized the Freedom Rides of the early 1960s and actively supported sit-ins and voter registration drives
What is CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)?
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?
Nixon’s foreign policy toward the Communist nations of China and the USSR is best described as…
Detente (an easing of tensions)
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?
Name two failures and one success of the Carter presidency
Successes: Dignity to office of president after Nixon, Camp David Accords (peace treaty between Egypt and Israel)
Betty Friedan co-founded this group in 1966
What is NOW (National Organization for Women)?
First treaty in which the U.S. became part of a major alliance with European powers.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
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 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?
Name three things that were done by the National Security Act: