Cold War Foundations
What is the Marshall Plan?
This policy provided economic aid to rebuild Europe and stop the spread of communism.
Fear of communism spreading in the U.S. after WWII.
What is the Red Scare?
What is suburbia?
The growth of residential communities outside cities.
Laws that enforced racial segregation in the South.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This Cold War crisis brought the U.S. and USSR closest to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
What is containment?
The U.S. policy of stopping communism from spreading worldwide.
What is the Loyalty Review Board?
This government program investigated federal employees for loyalty.
Buying goods in large quantities became common during this economic boom.
What is consumerism?
This young boy’s murder helped spark the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Emmett Till?
What is the Great Society?
LBJ’s domestic program aimed at reducing poverty and inequality.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)?
The idea that nuclear war would destroy both sides completely.
his committee investigated suspected communists in Hollywood and government.
What is HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)?
This system, built under Eisenhower, improved transportation across the U.S.
What is the Interstate Highway System?
These activists rode buses to challenge segregation in interstate travel.
Who are the Freedom Riders?
This scandal forced President Nixon to resign.
What is Watergate?
This war was the first “hot” conflict of the Cold War between North and South Korea.
What is the Korean War?
This senator led anti-communist investigations and accused many without evidence.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This Supreme Court case ended school segregation.
What is the March on Washington?
This 1963 event featured MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
The 2001 terrorist attack on the U.S.
What is 9/11?
Name TWO causes of the Cold War.
What are ideological differences, Yalta Conference disagreements, distrust between U.S. & USSR, atomic bomb tensions, or Soviet expansion?
What is McCarthyism?
The practice of making accusations without proper evidence.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott
This protest began when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat.
Name ONE difference between Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X’s strategies.
What is nonviolent protest vs. more militant/Black nationalism?
This war began in 2003 based on claims of weapons of mass destruction.
What is the Iraq War?