Chilling Showdowns
This alliance was created as a Soviet response to NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This party focused on protecting African Americans from police abuse and believed in separatism.
What is the Black Panther Party?
This theory suggested Communism would spread if one nation fell to it.
What is the Domino Theory?
This terrorist group is international and claimed responsibility for the 9/11 attacks.
What is Al-Qaeda?
What are the 1950s?
This term describes the U.S. policy to prevent the spread of Communism.
What is containment?
This amendment eliminated poll taxes.
What is the 24th Amendment?
This event in 1968 marked a turning point and decline in public support for the Vietnam War in the United States.
What is the Tet Offensive?
This terrorist group is located in Afghanistan and recently regained power.
What is the Taliban?
This term refers to the cultural paranoia and blacklisting of suspected Communists during the Cold War.
What is the Red Scare?
This was dubbed the "New Deal for Europe" and was meant to address hunger and poverty to combat Communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The Fair Housing Act of 1968 aimed to prevent _____________ (looking for a specific term).
What is redlining?
This trail was a key supply route for North Vietnam during the war.
What is the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
This legislation aimed to enhance national security but also sparked debate about civil liberties.
What is the Patriot Act?
This post-WWII legislation aimed to assist veterans but faced criticism for racial discrimination.
What is the GI Bill?
This symbol of the Cold War was torn down in 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This governor blocked Black students from entering a school in Arkansas.
Who is Orval Faubus?
This amendment lowered the voting age to 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
This department was created in response to the 9/11 attacks.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
The murder of this individual and his open-casket funeral marked a turning point in the early Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Emmett Till?
This was a collective defense alliance created to counter communist expansion in Southeast Asia during the Cold War, established in 1954.
What is SEATO?
This Supreme Court case ruled that federal civil rights laws protect LGBTQ+ employees from discrimination.
What is Bostock v. Clayton County?
This term refers to Nixon's strategy to replace U.S. troops with South Vietnamese forces.
What is Vietnamization?
This target of the 9/11 attacks was a significant symbol of capitalism.
What is the World Trade Center?
This movement during the Cold War targeted LGBTQ+ individuals, leading to significant job losses.
What is the Lavender Scare?