1940’s
What is Executive Order 9835?
This executive order, signed by President Truman in 1947, launched a loyalty program to investigate federal employees for communist ties.
This is the first manmade satellite launched by Russia
What is Sputnik?
This U.S. president promised to land a man on the moon, turning the Space Race into a symbol of American technological and ideological superiority.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This U.S. president resigned in 1974 after the Watergate scandal, becoming the first president in American history to do so.
Who is Richard Nixon?
In 1980 this President took office
Who is Ronald Reagan?
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
This committee gained national attention in 1947 for investigating alleged communist influence in Hollywood.
What former general was elected president
Who is General/ President Dwight Eisenhower ?
This 1962 event brought the U.S. and USSR to the brink of nuclear war over the discovery of Soviet missiles just 90 miles from the U.S. coast.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This series of agreements between the U.S. and USSR aimed to limit the number and development of nuclear weapons during the 1970s.
What is SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)?
This US President launched the Strategic Defense Initiative, nicknamed "Star Wars"
Who is Ronald Reagan.
This group of screenwriters and directors refused to testify before HUAC and were blacklisted from the film industry.
what 3 factors contributed to the suburbs and suburbanization
1. decentralize cities
2. respond to the housing shortage
3. federal/government subsidies
This American counterculture movement, known for promoting peace, love, civil rights, environmentalism, and anti-materialism, was often discredited by mainstream media as unpatriotic or dangerous to weaken public criticism of the Vietnam War
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What is the hippy movement?
This 1973 war, fought on a Jewish holy day, involved Egypt and Syria attacking Israel and led to a global oil embargo and energy crisis.
What is the Yom Kippur War (or October War)?
This major event in 1989 symbolized the end of the Cold War and the division between East and West Europe
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?
What is NATO?
In 1949, this alliance was formed as a collective defense against the Soviet threat.
This powerful nuclear weapon, first tested by the U.S. in 1952, was far more destructive than the atomic bomb and intensified the arms race with the Soviet Union.
What is the hydrogen bomb?
After turning to the USSR for help post-independence, this African leader was overthrown and killed during the Congo Crisis, leading to U.S.-backed Mobutu’s rise to power.
Who is Patrice Lumumba?
This 1979 event saw 52 Americans held captive for 444 days in a foreign embassy, significantly damaging President Carter’s popularity.
What is the Iran Hostage Crisis?
This Soviet leader introduced the reform policies of Glasnost and Perestroika during the 1980's.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
Who is Alger Hiss?
This man was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and became a symbol of Cold War paranoia.
When and what was the operation for the hydrogen bomb
Opperation Ivy 1952
Though he signed arms control treaties, this president escalated the Vietnam War drastically after succeeding Kennedy, marking a more aggressive U.S. Cold War stance abroad.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This top-secret government study, leaked in 1971, revealed that U.S. officials had misled the public about the progress of the Vietnam War.
What are the Pentagon Papers?
The Berlin Wall fell in this year, signaling the collapse of communist regimes across Eastern Europe.
What is 1989?