Cold War
Response to the Soviet Union's blockade in Berlin
What is the Berlin Airlift?
Brown vs. the Board of Education overturned this ruling
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
Authorized the building of highways throughout the United States
What is the Interstate Highway Act?
The conflict between nationalist forces attempting to unify the country of Vietnam under a communist government and the United States (with the aid of the South Vietnamese) attempting to prevent the spread of communism.
What is the Vietnam War?
During WWII, Juliana, a Great Dane, was awarded the Blue Cross Medal because she did this
What is peeing on an incendiary bomb?
First expressed in 1947 by U.S. President Truman in a speech to Congress seeking aid for Greece and Turkey
What is the Truman Doctrine?
As resistance towards the integration of schools worsened, this person sent federal troops to ensure the desegregation
Who is President Eisenhower?
The National Endowments for the Arts & Humanities, Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, and Clean Air Act are all programs created under this
What is The Great Society?
Tactics used in Vietnam
What is Napalm?
What is Agent Orange?
Pope Gregory IX declared war on this species between 1233 and 1234, claiming they were agents of Satan
What are cats?
Alger Hiss, the "Hollywood 10", and Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
What are targets of the Red Scare?
It was sparked after Rosa Parks was arrested for violating the law regarding where African Americans could sit on public transportation
What is the Montgomery Boycott?
The National Security Act resulted in this
What is established the National Security Council (NSC)?
What is create the CIA?
What is increased military spending?
Gave President Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use of military force in Vietnam
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
The longest word that is typed with only the left hand
What are stewardesses?
President JFK ordered this after the Soviet Union attempted to install nuclear weapons in Cuba
What is the naval quarantine of Cuba?
He was an advocate of "Black Power" and co-founder of the Black Panther Party
Who is Huey Newton?
Passed due to the fear that labor markets could not take in the tons of discharged veterans
What is the Servicemen's Readjustment Act (GI Bill of Rights)?
Top-secret documents, published by The New York Times, showed the blunders and deceptions that led the United States into the Vietnam War.
What are the Pentagon Papers?
What are whiskers?
Created to inquire into alleged disloyalty on the part of private citizens, public employees, and organizations suspected of having communist ties
What is the Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)?
The "sit-in" movements resulted the establishment of this organization
What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?
The act which outlawed "closed" shops
What is the Taft-Hartley Act?
Used to describe public skepticism about the Johnson administration's statements and policies on the Vietnam War
What is the Credibility Gap?
The wealthiest cat had a fortune of this much after their human died because his will stated that all of his money would go to his last surviving cat
How much is $12.5 million?
What is $12.5 million?