Post-WW2
After the war, the _____ led to a drastic increase in the USA population.
Baby boom
This plan gave $13B to European countries to rebuild after the war.
Marshall Plan
Considered a "police action", this war ended with little territorial change, 50,000 Americans and millions of Chinese and Koreans dead.
Korean War
The fear of domestic communism led to a "witch hunt" led by this senator.
Joseph McCarthy
In Brown v. Board of Education, it is deemed that "separate but equal" facilities are unequal. What Supreme Court case did this overturn?
Plessy v. Ferguson
The _____ ended segregation in public places, employment, and schools, while the ____ sought to end poll taxes and voter intimidation practices.
Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965
Gerald Ford became president after Nixon resigned for his involvement in the ____ scandal.
Watergate
federal highway system
The USA and Western Europe countries created a military alliance called _____, whereas the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries' alliance was called _____.
NATO, Warsaw Pact
The _____ gave the president unprecedented power to take the country to war. It was inspired by a misunderstood conflict in Vietnam in 1964.
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
This Western Hemisphere country was discovered to have Soviet-supplied nuclear warheads pointed at the USA.
After Brown v. Board, school integration was a long and slow process. What was the name of the group of students who tried to attend Central High in Little Rock, AR in 1957?
Little Rock 9
The ____, a group of black Southern clergymen, organized civil rights demonstrations. ____ was a student-led organization with similar goals.
SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)
SNCC (Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee)
This United States action led to the 1973 oil embargo.
American support for Israel
Inspired by FDR's New Deal, LBJ sought to make America a _____ through new programs to help Americans.
Great Society
In giving this speech in response to the Greek Civil War in 1947, the USA provided economic and military assistance to Greece and Turkey. Hereafter, the USA would support "free peoples" under pressure from the Soviet Union.
Truman Doctrine
This military operation in Vietnam led to American bombers dropping more bombs on Vietnam than the allies dropped in all of Europe during WW2.
Operation Rolling Thunder
This satellite launched by the Soviets gave Americans the sense that they were losing the Space Race.
Sputnik
After Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr. led a boycott of the busing system in this southern city. 90% of the black population boycotted the buses, and 11 months later the buses were integrated.
Montgomery, AL
These students simply sat down at a North Carolina Woolworth's dining counter which led to the sit-in movement for equal treatment in retail establishments.
Greensboro 4
American support for this country's leader led to a hostage crisis at the American embassy.
Iran
This activist Supreme Court justice, appointed by Eisenhower, presided over the period when Brown v. Board, Miranda v. Arizona, Loving v. Virginia, and many other cases expanded American rights.
Earl Warren
In this first conflict of the Cold War, the USA responded to the Soviet blockade of Germany's capital by flying in supplies.
Berlin Airlift
Nixon's plan to return military power to the South Vietnamese in order to allow American troops to return home.
Vietnamization
This Nixon and Kissinger plan led to relaxed tensions with communist nations.
detente
In 1963, the _______ made A. Philip Randolph's WW2 dream into a reality. He originally sought to protest segregation in the USA military, but executive orders from FDR and Truman addressed his concerns. The 1963 event ended at the Washington Monument where MLK, Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
March on Washington
Name two leaders/groups that, unlike MLK, Jr., supported more militant or radical approaches to achieving equality.
Black Panthers, Malcolm X
President Carter led negotiations between these two countries that led to the Camp David Accords.
Egypt and Israel