The United States policy of going to the verge of war without getting into the war, in order to gain an advantageous negotiating position.
What is Brinkmanship?
100
The Supreme Court case that desegregated schools by overturning Plessy v. Ferguson.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
100
This country won the Korean War?
Who is No Country?
100
This person was the first used the phrase "Iron Curtain".
Who is Winston Churchill?
100
Fear that communism would spread to the United States.
What is the Red Scare?
200
Two military alliances formed during the Cold War for "collective security" (one for each side).
What is the NATO and the Warsaw Pact?
200
The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted this long.
What is more than a year?
200
The Korean War had a large impact on the United States in this way.
What is future budgets or military spending?
200
The construction of this divided East and West Germany
What is the Berlin Wall?
200
This group participated in the Cold War by carrying out secret operations in other countries.
Who is the CIA?
300
The policy of the United States that gave military assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces (particularly Turkey and Greece).
What the Truman Doctrine?
300
The first of the confrontations on the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the march on Selma.
What is Bloody Sunday?
300
During China's civil war, this Nationalist leader was backed by the United States.
Who is Chiang Kai-Shek?
300
The United States policy that was implemented to stop the spread of Communism
What is the United States Containment Policy?
300
The married couple CONVICTED of spying for the Soviet Union by giving them information on how to build an ATOMIC BOMB
Who is Julius & Ethel Rosenberg?
400
The policy of the United States that gave economic aid to democratic nations after WWII to help them recover.
What is the Marshall Plan?
400
This President signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Who is Johnson?
400
Ultimately the end of the Vietnam War resulted in this.
What is communist control of Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam?
400
The Cold War had this affect on America's space program.
What is spurred competition with the Soviet Union in space missions?
400
This is the agency that tried to prosecute communists and perpetuated the Red Scare
What is the House Un-American Activities Commity (H.U.A.C.)
500
This allowed President Johnson to take all necessary measures to defend against armed attacks on U.S. forces.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
500
This civil rights organization won a number of important court cases against segregation in the 1950s.
What is the NAACP?
500
What happened during the Vietnamese election in 1956.
What is Diem refused to participate in it?
500
The public still viewed this man as a hero after he was fired by President Truman.
Who is General MacArthur?
500
The United States economic policy/bill that rebooted the economy by helping its veterans get school money and housing loans.