Cold War
When 30 million war babies were born between 1942 and 1950.
What is the baby boom?
Political theory that if one nation comes under Communist control then neighboring nations will too.
What is the domino theory?
A march that was attempted three times to protest voting rights.
What is Selma March?
The leader of the FBI who used blackmail and wire taps to maintain his great power throughout decades.
Who is J. Edgar Hoover?
Renamed himself X to signify the loss of his African heritage.
Who is Malcolm X?
ACtvthat provides balance of power between union and management.
What is the Taft-Hartley Act?
A herbicide used in the Vietnam war to defoliate forest areas.
What is Agent Orange?
Protests by black college students who took seats at ”Whites only” lunch counters and refused to leave until served.
What are the lunch counter sit-ins?
Pivotal leader of the American Civil Rights movement.
Who is Martin Luther King?
A resolution adopted by Congreve in 1964, giving the president broad powers to wage war in Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
First man-made satellite put into orbit by the USSR.
What is Sputnik?
An operation developed for United States troops in Vietnam.
What is search-n-destroy-mission?
First group of black students who were able to attend an all white school.
What is Little Rock Nine?
States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man.
Who is Rosa Parks?
American Secretary of State from 1961 to 1969.
Who is Dean Rusk?
The practice twice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.
What is Mcarthyism?
Someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations.
What is a dove?
Southern state laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites.
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
American civil rights lawyer and first black justice on the Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
A law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African American suffrage.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
An agency of the Justice Department responsible for investigating violations of Federal laws.
What is the FBI?
Sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam.
What is Operation Rolling Thunder?
A federal law that authorized federal action against segregation in public accommodations, public facilities, and employment.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Leader of the Communist Party in Indochina after WWll.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
Helped organize integration of the military and later the “freedom rides”.
What is the Congress of Racial Equality?