The Early Cold War/Korea
THIS is the term for a general foreign policy towards communistm that started with Truman after WWII.
What is CONTAINMENT?
THIS is the U.S. Senator that led efforts to expose domestic communist influence in America in the early 1950s.
Who was JOSEPH MCCARTHY?
THIS is the group of students who, in 1957 became the first African Amerians to attend Central High School in Arkansas.
What is the LITTLE ROCK NINE?
THIS act essentially repealed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution. It required the president to consult with Congress within 48 hours of deploying military forces and to obtain a declaration of war from Congress if troops remained on foreign soil beyond 60 days.
What is the WAR POWERS ACT?
This was a feminist organization formed in 1966 by Bettry Friedan, Gloria Steinem and other activists. They wanted to move society toward "true equality for all women in America..."
What was NOW (NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN)?
THIS was a Post World War II economic aid package designed to help rebuild Western Europe/ $13 billion in economic aid ws given to 16 European countries over the next 5 years.
What was THE MARSHALL PLAN?
THIS is the term for a dramatical increase in the population of the U.S. between 1946-1964.
What is BABY BOOM?
THIS form of peaceful protest became popular in the 1950s, with events happening in 58 cities across the South.
What are SIT-INS?
The Berlin Wall was built by Khrushchev after an embarrasing American defeat trying to do THIS.
What is the BAY OF PIGS INVASION (oust Castro/communist government in Cuba)?
THIS is the term for young cultural rebels of the 1960s who rejected conventional moral and sexual values and often used drugs to reach a higher consciousness.
What is COUNTERCULTURE?
The shift of balance of governmental power to the executive branch during the late 1940s and 1950s cold war era has created what is known as THIS.
What is the IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY?
What is MCCARTHYISM?
In 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. planned a freedom march from THIS city to Montgomery, AL. Many whites showed up to taunt and attack the black protesters, prompting President Johnson to declare on TV the "black cause must be our cause too".
What is SELMA, AL.
THIS was the political approach of Dwight Eisenhower. It tried to fit traditional Republican ideas of individualism and fiscal restraint within the broad framework of the New Deal.
What is MODERN REPUBLICANISM?
In 1973, THIS led to "stagflation" as prices for resources such as oil and gas rose.
What is OPEC oil embargo of the U.S.?
THIS council proposed that the United States develop an even more powerful nuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb, increase military spending, and continue to negotiate NATO-style alliances around the globe.
What was NSC-68?
The growth of suburbs led to many Americans led to conformity. There was also an increase in people frustrated with the conformity and traditional values of America. These people formed THIS movement?
What is the COUNTERCULTURE MOVEMENT?
Southerners were upset with rulings such as Brown v. Board of Education not just because they didn't want to integrate races, but because the ruling represented THIS. (something southerners traditionally resented)
What is FEDERAL AUTHORITY? (Federal govt. vs. states rights).
Vietcong is the popular name for THIS group, which was formed in 1959. They waged a military insurgency against the U.S.-backed South Vietnamese president.
Who were the NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT?
THIS action caused President Carter to drop consideration of SALT II (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty).
What is the SOVIET UNION INVADED AFGHANISTAN?
The United Nations considered the Korean War a THIS PHRASE/TERM, even though it cost the lives of nearly 27,000 U.S. troops.
What is a "POLICE ACTION"?
THIS man, known for finding a way to mass-produce housing that led to subdivisions was known for saying "No man who owns his own house and lot an be a Communists. He has too much to do."
Who was WILLIAM LEVITT?
THESE two men founded the Black Panther Party, which embraced the idea of black power.
Who were HUEY NETWON AND BOBBY SEALE?
What is REALPOLITIK?
In 1979, Jerry Falwell founded THIS, an organization that backed political candidates that favored a "family values" agenda.
What is the MORAL MAJORITY?