Post-WWII America
These networks of roads built by President Eisenhower during the 1950s; could get people from city to city faster, and move military equipment faster if the U.S. was ever invaded by the Soviets.
What are highways / The Interstate Highway System?
This long event developed at the end of World War II: a non-violent period of hostility between the capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union
What is the Cold War?
This landmark Supreme Court case ruled that segregation of public schools was entirely unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
How did Lyndon B. Johnson become President of the United States?
He was Kennedy's vice president, who succeeded him after Kennedy was assassinated.
The idea that if Vietnam fell to communism, all of the countries around it would fall to communism too.
What is domino theory?
Suburbs grew in the 1950s because many men were able to get home loans through their _______ _______ they received for their service in the military.
What is the GI bill?
The practice of accusing people in government or celebrities of being Communist with little to no evidence was popularized by this U.S. Senator
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
__________________ was a civil rights leader known for his non-violent approach of civil disobedience, ___________ was a civil rights leader who was militant, and said black people needed to use "any means necessary"
Who is Martin Luther King (non-violent) and Malcolm X ("any means")
The disastrous effort to overthrow Fidel Castro using troops that had fled Cuba.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
Americans began to distrust their government, because the horrible war they were seeing on TV did not match the government's cheerful reports about it. This is called the _________________.
What is the credibility gap?
The plan to rebuild Europe after World War II, as an act to prevent future wars, and to prevent the spread of communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
What is brinksmanship?
This landmark Supreme Court case ensured every American's right to a lawyer, even if they cannot afford one.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
After setting a naval blockade, smooth-talking JFK was able to settle things diplomatically with the Soviet Union's Khrushchev after this incident, where the Soviet Union had moved nuclear missiles into Cuba.
What is The Cuban Missile Crisis?
This event was the turning point of the war in Vietnam. Named after the Vietnamese new year holiday, it showed that the Vietcong was not going to give up.
What is the Tet Offensive?
The policy of containing communism within countries that have already turned communist, named after the President who practiced it.
What is Truman Doctrine? (Points but no bonus: containment)
The Korean War started with communist North Korea + anti-communist South Korea, and ended with...
Dr. King's March on Washington led to this law being passed, that outlawed segregation everywhere.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Lyndon B. Johnson's wide-reaching campaign goals, that were a continuation of Kennedy's "New Frontier."
What is The Great Society?
This move by Congress allowed President Johnson to have unlimited war powers after the Vietcong attacked a U.S. ship.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
The military alliance between anti-communist countries, this alliance took the side of South Korea during the Korean War.
What is N.A.T.O.?
The event in which the Soviet Union cut off all supplies from Berlin to protest the anti-communist countries controlling half of the city. In response, the Allies lifted supplies into Berlin to help the people living there.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This five-letter organization sought to secure rights for African-Americans by utilizing the U.S. court system.
What is the NAACP?
Johnson's efforts specifically to help the struggling poor in America by providing education programs and job training.
What is the War on Poverty?
What is the War Powers Act?