Post War America
Gave veterans money for college and provided low-interest loans for businesses.
What is the Servicemen's Readjustment Act (GI Bill)
Developing conventional and nuclear weapons to gain superiority over countries.
What is arms race?
President Johnson's War on Poverty; included programs like the Food Stamp Act, Housing & Urban Development Act, & the Child Nutrition Act
What is the Great Society?
Famous MLK speech delivered during the March on Washington quoted the Declaration of Independence & pushed for equal rights.
What is the "I Have a Dream" Speech?
Legislation that limited the president's power to send troops into combat.
What is the War Powers Act?
Increase in birthrate led to economic prosperity.
What is the Baby Boom?
Cold War foreign policies that explained U.S. involvement in the Korean War.
What is containment and domino theory?
Affordable healthcare options for the elderly and low-income families.
What is Medicare and Medicaid?
Banned discrimination & segregation in public places & employment
Nixon's plan to end U.S. involvement in Vietnam by gradually reducing troops
What is Vietnamization?
Accusing people of treason without evidence.
What is McCarthyism?
Implemented to rebuild Europe to the prevent the spread of communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
Congressional action gave LBJ war powers & led to an escalation of U.S. forces in Vietnam
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
A means to fix past discrimination, these are positive steps to help underrepresented groups in employment, education, & business
What is affirmative action?
Protests over military missions in Cambodia resulted in confrontation between protestors and police, with four students killed on May 4, 1970
What is the shooting at Kent State University?
Led to deforestation and urban sprawl.
What is the growth of suburbs?
Soviet Union placed missiles on Cuba, resulted in a naval blockade to remove the missles.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Public skepticism over President Johnson's statements and policies in the Vietnam War.
What is the credibility gap?
Banned the use of literacy tests to prevent blacks from registering to vote
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
What is the 26th amendment?
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
Military alliance of the US, Canada, and Western Europe to prevent Soviet aggression and provide collective security in Europe.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
Coordinated attack by the North Vietnamese army in South Vietnam, led to mistrust in the government and lowered support for the war.
What is the Tet Offensive?
Supreme Court case that desegregated public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Earned the Congressional Medal of Honor for saving his fellow soldiers under heavy enemy attack.
Who is Roy Benavidez?