Postwar Prosperity
This institution was created in 1944 at Bretton Woods to stabilize international exchange rates and rebuild the global economy.
What is the International Monetary Fund (IMF)?
This legislation provided low-interest home loans and college tuition for WWII veterans.
What is the GI Bill?
This famous world leader inspired both MLK Jr. and Nelson Mandela in their fight against oppression.
Who is Mohandas Gandhi?
This Kennedy-initiated program sought to win hearts and minds in the developing world through volunteerism.
What is the Peace Corps?
This foreign policy advisor argued in the “Long Telegram” that Soviet expansion must be checked through containment.
Who is George Kennan?
This plan was passed through Congress under the advice of President Truman to avoid the mistakes of the Treaty of Versailles.
What is the Marshall Plan/ European Recovery Plan?
This major suburban housing development symbolized mass-produced American affluence in the 1950s.
What is Levittown?
MLK wrote this famous piece of rhetoric in response to white church leaders pulling their support from the Civil Rights Movement.
What is Letter from Birmingham Jail?
This 1965 law changed the demographic makeup of the U.S. by removing national origin quotas.
What is the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965?
This doctrine extended U.S. protection to any Middle Eastern nation threatened by communism.
What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?
This Hydrogen Bomb is _______ times more powerful than the Atomic Bomb.
What is 1,000?
This couple was accused of espionage and executed despite limited evidence of their crimes.
Who are the Rosenbergs?
Marcus Garvey influenced this rising political party during the Civil Rights Movement, which was based partly on the belief in Pan-Africanism.
Who are the Black Panthers/ Black Separatists?
This term describes JFK’s domestic agenda.
What is the "New Frontier"?
This "term" describes covert operations and indirect involvement in foreign policy affairs to promote U.S. interests overseas.
What is the "Shadow War"?
These two organizations were formed to combat Soviet aggression and gain more allies in the Cold War.
What are NATO and SEATO?
This term refers to the U.S.’s domination of the world economy and global politics in the postwar era.
What is a hegemony?
The terminology used to describe forms in which segregation manifests itself.
What is de jure and de facto?
This phrase characterized how LBJ used his political expertise to push his Presidential agenda.
What is the "Johnson Treatment"?
This Iranian leader was installed as a "Western Puppet" to protect U.S. interests.
Who is Reza Shah Pahlavi?
This 1947 law limited union power and marked a shift away from New Deal-era pro-labor policies.
What is the Taft-Hartley Act?
This U.S. senator used the Red Scare to elevate his political career to great heights.
Who is Richard Nixon?
These two SCOTUS cases paved the way for Brown v. Board.
What are Mendez v. Westminster and Sweatt v. Painter?
The U.S. Presidents involved in the Vietnam War.
Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon
This was one of the direct consequences of the Suez Canal Crisis that would eventually lead to the 9/11 attacks.
Arab Nationalism/ Anti-Western Sentiment