Cold war
This organization was formed on the principle of collective security
What is NATO?
These were places where African-Americans faced discrimination as a direct result of segregation
What are bathrooms, buses, schools, restaurants, etc?
The 13-day period in which the U.S and the USSR had a standoff about Nuclear Missiles in Cuba
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This was the device that brought images of conflict during the Vietnam War to millions of Americans in their living rooms.
What is the Television?
This is the man who shot JFK.
Who is Lee Harvey Oswald?
The struggle between the U.S and the Soviet Union for more nuclear bombs
What is the Arms Race?
Brown v. Board over turned this long-standing precedent set by Plessy v. Ferguson
What is separate but equal?
The Korean War ended in this
What is a Stalemate?
This was the president to first send troops to Vietnam as "advisors"
Who is Kennedy
This was the Massacre in Vietnam, which killed around 175-400 civilians
What is the My Lai Massacre?
After WWII, Germany was divided into many sections
what is 4 sections?
These were the laws created to enforce segregation in the south
What are Jim Crow Laws?
The Korean Peninsula was divided at this parallel.
What is the 38th Parallel?
this was the primary focus of the protest movement of the 1960s and early 1970s?
What is to end the Draft and end the war in Vietnam?
This plan was designed to give money to countries rebuilding after WWII in exchange, those countries had to become capitalist.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This is the Iron Curtain
What is the imaginary line that divided Democracy in the west and Communism in the east.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed by which president?
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This was a failed CIA invasion of Cuba to overthrow Fidel Castro.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
This is why the conflict in the Vietnam war was so brutal for American troops.
What is Booby Traps?
This was the name of the Russian Satellite that caused panic in the U.S. and started the space race.
What is Sputnik?
This policy was designed to deal with the spread of communism.
What is containment?
this was the effect that Emmitt Till's death had on the nation
What is it caused more Americans to support the Civil Rights movement?
This organization was created as a Soviet response to NATO.
What is The Warsaw Pact?
This is what the chemical Agent Orange was used for during the Vietnam War
What is a Chemical Defoliant? (Kills plant life)
This was the name of the University where 4 college students were shot and killed at a anti-war protest
What is Kent State?