End of WWII
The organization of multiple world powers after WWII.
the United Nations
The doctrine that included asking for $400 million to protect Greece and Turkey with the idea of stopping the influence of communism.
Truman Doctrine/Containment
Former secretary of the NAACP that helped spark the Civil Rights Movement and the Montgomery bus boycott.
Rosa Parks
The name of the President that ended WWII in the Pacific theatre with the use of the atomic bomb.
Harry Truman
This item electronic device took up to 33% of Americans time and was in 80% of American homes by the end of the 1950s.
T.V
Former WWII General that became the President of America for most of the 1950s.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
This event is 1st time the Cold War heated up and an Asian country was split into two parts, North and South. North supported by Communist China and U.S.S.R and South support by the USA.
Korean War
The black supremacist group that reached a peak of influence during the end of civil rights movement and beginning of the Black Power Movement. Supported self determination and the arming all African Americans.
Black Panthers
He championed both The Great Society and The War on Poverty during his one term as president.
Lyndon B. Johnson
The political ideology of the USSR that believed in government distribution of goods and services.
Communism/Socialism
The name of the generational population growth after WWII.
Baby Boom
The incident that leads to the United States officially entering the Vietnam War.
Gulf of Tonkin incident
The name of the book that questioned a woman's role in society in the sixties.
The Feminine Mystique
The leader of Soviet Russia during and right after WWII.
Joseph Stalin
The name given to describe American spending habits of buying goods for the sake of want and not need during both the 1920s and 1950s.
Consumerism
This allowed for many veterans to gain a free advanced degree or work training.
G.I Bill
The attack of Cuba by United States-funded militants to try and stop Fidel Castro under President John F. Kennedy.
Bay of Pigs
Name given to the group African American students that were the first to integrated schools after the Brown v Board of Education case.
The Little Rock 9
A prominent member of the US government who proclaimed to have a list of communist spies in the government.
Joseph McCarthy
This is the name given to Reagan's economic plan that gave big tax breaks to corporations and lowered personal tax rates to help get people to spend more money.
Reaganomics, trickle down economics, voodoo economics
The side of Germany controlled by Soviet Russia.
East Germany
This man sought to persuade allied war leaders to revive a more robust League of Nations. The his vision was spelled out in a 1943 book "Six Pillars of Peace". Has an airport named after him.
John Foster Dulles
Protest involving mostly white and black college students travelling by bus from the North to South together.
Freedom Rides
The mother of modern conservationism who wrote the book "Silent Spring".
Rachel Carson
This is the name of the group that limited the supply of oil to the United States in the 1970s.
OPEC
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries