This plan helped make European countries strong enough to start buying American goods.
What is the Marshall Plan?
100
This contributed to the surge in postwar home construction.
What is loans to war veterans?
100
The laws that enforced the strict seperation of races.
What are Jim Crow laws?
100
The Bay of Pigs was an attempt to overthrow him.
Who is Fidel Castro?
200
The U.S. backed Nationalists led by him in the Chinese Civil War.
Who is Jiang Jieshi?
200
President Truman was not able to make much progress on Civil Rights in the general population but he was able to acomplish this which ultimately helped the country move toward equal rights.
What is desegregation of the military?
200
This civil rights organization won a number of important court cases against segregation in the 1950's.
What is NAACP?
200
This program provided economic assistance to Latin American.
What is the Alliance for Progress?
300
This event marked the begining of the conflict on the Korean peninsula.
What is the North Korean invaded south of the 38th parallel?
300
These are called Levittowns.
What are pop-up suburban communities.
300
The school where rioting over James Meredith's enrollment took place.
What is the University of Mississippi?
300
This came first in Johnson's War on Poverty?
What is the Economic Opportunity Act?
400
This led to Senator McCarthy's downfall.
What is the broadcast of the McCarthy hearings on television?
400
This industry grew most rapidly during the 1950's
What is the service industry?
400
This act forbid discrimination in employment on the basis of race.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
500
NATO and Warsaw Pact are examples of these.
What are military alliances?
500
Many social critics in the 1950's criticized the American emphasis on this.
What is conformity?
500
Three members of this organization disappered during Freedom Summer. They were later found murdered.