People
The Cuban socialist leader
Who was Fidel Castro
The political and economic confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States that dominated world affairs
What was the Cold War?
he political practice of publicizing accusations of disloyalty or subversion with insufficient regard to evidence
What was McCarthyism?
The revolutionary organization with an ideology of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality
What was the Black Panther Party?
The Supreme Court decision in which the Court protected abortion as a fundamental right
What was the Roe vs. Wade?
The President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Who was John F Kennedy?
The policy statement that committed the US to military approach to the Cold War
What was the NSC-68?
The theory that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control
What was the Domino Theory?
The leading student organization of the New Left of the early and mid-1960s
What was the Students for Democratic Society?
The Supreme Court that overruled Plessy vs. Ferguson and ended racial segregation in public schools
What was the Brown vs. Board of Education?
The 34th president
Who was Dwight Eisenhower?
Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the US-dominated West
What was the Iron Curtain?
The American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world?
What was the Containment?
The black civil rights organization founded in 1960 that drew heavily on younger activists and college students
What was the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee?
The civil rights group formed in 1942 and committed to nonviolent civil disobedience
What was the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)?
The 36th president
Who was Lyndon Johnson?
The promised support for the "free peoples of the world" who wished to keep communist aggression at bay
What was the Truman Doctrine?
The pamphlet which alleged that communists had infiltrated the entertainment industry
What was the Red Channel?
The organization that asserted their rights and strove for equality for themselves and others as they upended many accepted norms and set groundbreaking social changes in motion
What was the National Organization for Women?
The black civil rights organization founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. and other clergy
What was the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
The communist leader of North Vietnam
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
United the branches of the armed services under the new Department of Defense
What was National Security Act?
The special committee in the US House of Representatives tasked with investigating subversive individuals and organizations
What was the House Committee on Un-American Activities?
The interracial American organization created to works for the abolition of segregation and discrimination.
What was National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
The first postwar organization for gay civil rights
What was the Mattachine Society?