Cold War & Foreign Policy
This U.S. policy aimed to stop the spread of communism.
What is containment?
This period saw economic growth and rising consumer culture after WWII.
What is the postwar boom?
This 1954 case ended school segregation.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This decade saw the rise of suburban living and consumerism.
What are the 1950s?
This period of fear of communism led to investigations and accusations.
What is McCarthyism?
This program provided aid to rebuild Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This GI program helped veterans attend college and buy homes.
What is the GI Bill?
Leader known for nonviolent civil rights activism.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This youth movement rejected traditional values in the 1960s.
What is the counterculture?
This scandal led to a president’s resignation in 1974.
What is Watergate?
This war (1950–1953) was an early Cold War conflict in Asia.
What is the Korean War?
This president launched the “Great Society” programs.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This 1964 law banned discrimination in public places.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
This music and cultural movement gained popularity in the 1960s.
What is rock and roll?
This president resigned due to Watergate.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This 1962 crisis brought the U.S. and USSR close to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This program provided healthcare for the elderly.
What is Medicare?
This movement advocated equality for women.
What is the feminist movement?
This event symbolized 1960s counterculture ideals.
What is Woodstock?
This policy reduced Cold War tensions in the 1970s.
What is détente?
This long conflict in Southeast Asia deeply divided Americans.
What is the Vietnam War?
This 1970s economic problem combined inflation and unemployment.
What is stagflation?
This group promoted Black pride and self-defense.
What are the Black Panthers?
This movement opposed U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
What is the anti-war movement?
This event in 1979 showed continued Cold War tensions.
What is the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?