M.A.D.
A state of hostility without direct military conflict.
What is a cold war?
Ten movie stars and filmmakers that were imprisoned for refusing to cooperate with the HUAC.
What is the Hollywood Ten?
President Lyndon B. Johnson's vision for American domestic policy.
What is the Great Society?
This law prohibits discrimination when voting.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Communist fighters in South Vietnam.
Who are the Vietcong?
A counterculture that valued non-conformity and peace.
Who are the hippies?
Korea is divided by this border.
What is the 38th parallel?
The term for accusing someone of disloyalty without any evidence.
What is McCarthyism?
Provides medical insurance to elderly Americans.
What is Medicare?
This law prohibits discrimination based on religion, race, national origin, and gender.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
The French were defeated at this battle in Vietnam.
What is Dien Bien Phu?
A political movement that criticized traditional American ideals and the status quo.
What is the New Left?
The border that General MacArthur launched a failed offensive towards.
What is the Yalu River?
An agency that investigated organizations and American citizens for the purpose of finding communists.
What is the HUAC?
Provides medical insurance for poor Americans who cannot afford it.
What is Medicaid?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Vietnamese revolutionaries who sought independence from the French.
Who are the Vietminh?
An antiwar Democrat who lost the primary in 1968.
Who is Eugene McCarthy?
Communist nations in Europe established by Joseph Stalin.
What are satellite nations?
An agency that investigated government employees for the purpose of finding communists.
What is the Loyalty Review Board?
A failed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro involving Cuban exiles.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
A lawyer for the NAACP who argued against segregation in court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This resolution granted the U.S. power to launch a military campaign in Vietnam.
What is the Tonkin Gulf Resolution?
An independent who ran in 1968 and pulled votes away from Hubert Humphrey.
Who is George Wallace?
The policy that the United States would support democratic nations financially.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
Designing products to become purposefully outdated over time.
What is planned obsolescence?
Banned nuclear testing in the atmosphere, restricting countries to only test nuclear weapons underground.
What is the Limited Test Ban Treaty?
A concentrated effort in Mississippi to register African Americans to vote.
What is the Freedom Summer?
A massacre of Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops during the Tet Offensive.
What is My Lai?
A district in San Francisco known as the "hippie capital".
What is Haight-Ashbury?
The first leader of South Korea.
Who is Syngman Rhee?
A corporation that includes smaller companies of unrelated industries.
What is a conglomerate?
The leader of the Soviet Union who sent missiles to Cuba for protection.
Who is Nikita Khruschev?
This group organized college students to protest against segregated areas of society.
What is SNCC?
Who is Clark Clifford?
A series of resignations and firings by Nixon to stop the release of his tape recordings.
What is the Saturday Night Massacre?