Category 1: Cold War Tensions
U.S. aid program designed to rebuild Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
Laws enforcing racial segregation in the South.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Movement of young Americans rejecting traditional values during Vietnam.
What is the Counterculture Movement?
This president is associated with his conservative economic policies, a military buildup against the Soviet Union, and helping shape the end of the Cold War.
Who is President Ronald Reagan?
This 1970s music and dance style, often associated with clubs and flashy fashion, became a major cultural trend.
What is the Disco Era?
This Cold War event demonstrated America’s commitment to resisting Soviet pressure by supplying a divided city entirely by air.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
African American teenager murdered in Mississippi in 1955.
Who is Emmett Till?
A college shooting during anti-war protests in Ohio. (4 students died)
What is Kent State?
This president’s legacy includes a strong 1990s economy, the rise of globalization and international trade, early growth of the internet economy, and an impeachment scandal during his second term
Who is President Bill Clinton?
This cultural movement emphasized peace, love, and rejection of traditional authority during the 1960s.
What is the Counterculture (Hippie Movement)?
Policy of threatening nuclear war to stop communism. (take to the edge of war)
What is Brinkmanship?
Protest method where demonstrators occupied lunch counters.
What are Sit-ins?
Chemical used to destroy jungle vegetation in Vietnam. Linked to cancer in many veterans when they returned home.
What is Agent Orange?
This president is remembered for human rights-focused foreign policy, economic struggles like inflation, and the Iran Hostage Crisis.
Who is President Jimmy Carter?
This time period describes the overall look, sound, and lifestyle of the decade—bright fashion, MTV music videos, emerging tech, and a strong consumer-driven youth culture.
What is the 1980s culture?
In 1962, the United States discovered Soviet nuclear missiles being built in Cuba, bringing the world close to nuclear war during this Cold War confrontation.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This white supremacist group used violence, intimidation, and terror tactics to oppose civil rights efforts and maintain segregation in the South.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Nickname for Vietnam because Americans watched it on television nightly.
What is the Living Room War?
This president is remembered for leading the U.S. during 9/11, launching the War on Terror, and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Who is President George W. Bush?
This era is defined by the rise of social media, smartphones, streaming entertainment, viral internet trends, and rapidly changing digital communication.
What is the Digital Age / 21st-century internet culture (2000–2025)?
This policy promised U.S. support to countries fighting against communism, becoming a major foundation of American Cold War foreign policy. (Greece, Turkey)
What is the Truman Doctrine?
1965 law protecting African American voting rights.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
During the Vietnam War, this system required many young American men to serve in the military, leading to protests and widespread opposition.
What is the Draft?
This president’s legacy includes leading the U.S. during the end of the Cold War, the fall of the Soviet Union, and the Gulf War against Iraq in 1991.
Who is President George H. W. Bush?
This decade is often associated with the rise of grunge music, early internet use, blockbuster sitcoms, and growing video game and tech culture.
What is the 1990s culture?