COLD WAR 1
These two countries became the World Super Powers after WWII, leading to tension.
What is the US and USSR?
This alliance of the US and its allies pledged support of each other in the event of a Soviet invasion.
What is NATO? (NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION)
This President passed the Interstate Highway Act to build highways across the US to move military quickly. A side effect of this was easier travel by civilians to cities across the US.
Who is Eisenhower?
This term refers to President Johnson's drastic increase of US involvement in Vietnam.
What is escalation?
This act passed by President Johnson outlawed discrimination based on race, religion, and gender.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This was Winston Churchill's term, used to describe the separation of communist nations in Eastern Europe from the West.
What is the "Iron Curtain"?
This alliance was composed of the Soviet Union and its controlled Eastern European countries designed to protect each other from the democratic West.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
The Soviet Union's launch of this satellite started the Space Race between the US and USSR. It also led to an increase in educational spending in the US.
What is Sputnik?
As a response to a North Vietnamese gunboat attack on two US Naval Destroyers, Congress passed this resolution giving the President the authority to conduct military operation without a formal declaration of war or congressional approval.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
This baseball player broke the color barrier in professional sports when he was drafted by the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1946.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
This term meaning keeping communism within its present territory became the basis of President Truman's foreign policy during the Cold War.
What is containment?
War was fought on this Asian peninsula to stop the spreading of Communism from the Northern part to the Southern Part. Eventually it ended at a stalemate at the 38th parallel. The War never actually ended.
What is Korea?
After Castro's revolution in Cuba, this failed attempt to overthrow Castro by sneaking trained Cuban exiles into Cuba was disastrous for US public image.
What is Bay of Pigs?
This coordinated attack during the Vietnamese New Year in 1968 against over 100 cities in South Vietnam by the North Vietnamese Army, showed that our country was not close to winning and led to anger against the war.
What is the Tet Offensive?
This organization created by MLK was designed to use non-violent civil disobedience to gain civil rights.
What is the SCLC?
This doctrine said the US pledged to assist any countries fighting communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This term describes the fear of Communist infiltration of the US. It's named after the rude, paranoid, overbearing Senator who had public questionings in Congress.
What is McCarthyism?
The response to Kennedy's failed overthrow attempt of Cuba led to this event in which the USSR placed nuclear missiles on the island. It is the closest we get to nuclear war during the Cold War.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This plan created by President Nixon was designed to return the fighting to the people of South Vietnam. Secretly, he sent in more troops and attacked Cambodia.
What is Vietnamization?
This letter to describing the need for the end of segregation to end now, was written by MLK while incarcerated.
What is "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"?
This "money" plan gave billions of dollars to aid Western Europe to improve war-torn economies.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This theory proposed by Eisenhower suggested that if one county fell to Communism then all countries near it would fall to Communism.
What is the Domino Theory?
Kennedy starts US Involvement in Vietnam by sending 30,000 of these in South Vietnam, who was trying to resist Communism.
What are military "advisors"?
This forced military service chosen by lottery was reinstated in 1969.
What is the Draft?
This landmark Supreme Court case stated that "separate but equal" had no place in public education.
What is Brown v Board of Education