Postwar America
Truman's domestic program that aimed to expand New Deal reforms, including healthcare and civil rights.
What is the Fair Deal?
This 1947 policy pledged U.S. support to nations resisting communism, starting with Greece and Turkey.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This 1962 crisis nearly brought the U.S. and USSR to nuclear war over missiles in Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This 1954 Supreme Court decision declared school segregation unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This movement began with college students protesting rules at UC Berkeley in 1964.
What is the Free Speech Movement?
This government program helped veterans attend college, buy homes, and start businesses after WWII.
What is the G.I. Bill?
This U.S. plan provided over $12 billion in aid to rebuild Western Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The first “hot” conflict of the Cold War, this war began when North Korea invaded the South in 1950.
What is the Korean War?
He wrote the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” to defend nonviolent protest.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This phrase by Timothy Leary summed up the counterculture’s philosophy.
What is “Turn on, tune in, drop out”?
A major demographic shift in the U.S. after WWII, this baby boom created demand for schools, homes, and consumer goods.
What is the Baby Boom?
The U.S. and its allies supplied West Berlin with food and goods during this Soviet blockade.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This controversial war escalated under LBJ and ended with U.S. withdrawal in 1973.
What is the Vietnam War?
This 1964 law banned segregation in public places and discrimination in employment.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This 1969 music festival became a symbol of the counterculture movement.
What is Woodstock?
This 1947 law restricted union power and was passed over Truman’s veto.
What is the Taft-Hartley Act?
This alliance was formed in 1949 between the U.S., Canada, and Western European nations.
What is NATO?
This scandal involved illegally selling weapons to Iran and funding rebels in Nicaragua.
What is the Iran-Contra Affair?
This activist encouraged Black Americans to use “any means necessary” for self-defense.
Who is Malcolm X?
This book by Betty Friedan sparked the modern women’s rights movement.
What is The Feminine Mystique?
This region, stretching from Florida to California, grew rapidly after WWII due to defense jobs and a warm climate.
What is the Sunbelt?
This 1950 report recommended massive military buildup to resist communism worldwide.
What is NSC-68?
This speech by President Reagan in 1987 demanded that the Berlin Wall be removed.
What is “Tear down this wall”?
This militant group advocated armed self-defense and community programs for Black Americans.
What is the Black Panther Party?
This 1962 SDS document called for participatory democracy and critiqued government institutions.
What is the Port Huron Statement?