Early Cold War
This gave money to any country battling communism although it starts with $400 million in aid to Turkey and Greece.
Truman Doctrine
Name of the massacre in which American soldiers killed unarmed Vietnamese civilians in 1968 - it changes the minds of many Americans.
My Lai Massacre
The leader of non-violent protest and civil disobedience during the Civil Rights Movement
Martin Luther King, Jr.
What was the secret agreement to provide funds to Nicaraguan Contra rebels from profits gained selling arms to Iran.
Iran Contra Affair/Scandal
President G.W. Bush declared this as a response to 9/11, US would actively fight terrorism throughout the world
War on Terror
This is the closest the US and Soviet Union came to nuclear war, and included a US blockade of Soviet ships.
Cuban Missile Crisis
This resolution authorized Johnson (essentially a "blank check") to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate from an incident in Vietnam in which two US destroyers were fired upon.
Gulf of Tonkin
Main spokesperson for the Nation of Islam who is also seen as the father of the Black Power Movement.
Malcolm X
The political group made up of fundamentalist Christians
Moral Majority/New Right
Agreement that eliminated trade barriers among the US, Mexico, and Canada and created the largest free trade zone in the world.
NAFTA
This gave aid to Western European countries after WWII as a way to recover economically but mostly to sustain capitalism and democracy.
Marshall Plan
This event included a Vietnam War student protest on a college campus in which the police mistakenly shot into the crowd, killing 4 college students.
Kent State Massacre
This non-violent protest started when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
What are the two major reforms that ended the Soviet Union?
glasnost, perestroika
leader of al Qaeda and the attacks on 9/11
Osama bin Laden
The exaggerated fear of communism and the investigation tactics used during the 2nd Red Scare...sometimes considered a "witch hunt"
large-scale bombing of North Vietnam; also increased US military deployment
Operation Rolling Thunder
This Supreme Court case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and desegregated public schools nationwide.
Brown v. Board of Education
Soviet Union Leader that allowed for improvement in the relations between the US and the USSR
Mikhail Gorbachev
International treaty to reduce greenhouse gases emissions
Kyoto Accords
the first "hot war" of the Cold War
Korean War
This reversed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and limits the president's ability to deploy military forces without the approval of Congress.
War Powers Act
This event, coordinated by SNCC, was an effort to help African Americans register to vote in Mississippi. It also included the murder of 3 SNCC members by KKK members.
Freedom Summer
supply-side economics
Reaganomics
passed as a result of terrorist attacks in the US, faced heavy criticisms for hindering American liberties
Patriot Act