WWII
This allowed the U.S. to give Allies supplies during early WWII events while staying out of the war themselves
What is the Lend Lease Act?
The idea that if one nation falls to communism, others will shortly after
What is the domino theory?
What is the March on Washington?
Nixon's policy to remove American troop in Vietnam and replace them with South Vietnamese troops
What is Vietnamization?
This lowered the voting age to 18
What is the 26th Amendment?
This event helped create the first atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert
What is the Manhattan Project?
Confrontation between U.S. and Soviets over nuclear weapons being stored in Cuba
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This overturned "Separate but Equal"
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
These two countries occupied Vietnam at one point during the 1940s
This eliminated the poll tax
What is the 24th Amendment?
This group of immigrants living in America during WWII faced the harshest treatment
Who are Asian Americans?
Failed landing operation in Cuba, trying to overthrow Fidel Castro
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
These are the 3 biggest examples of what the southern political system did to prevent African Americans from voting
What are literacy tests, poll tax, and intimidation tactics?
This gave President Johnson more wartime powers
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
This scandal rocked the Nixon presidency leading to this resignation
What is Watergate?
This battle becomes the turning point of the war in the Pacific in WWII
What is the Battle of Midway?
Wisconsin senator who spread false information about communists in the U.S. government
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
This person was a significant lawyer and later becomes a Supreme Court Justice
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This government leak showed how the government was lying to the public
What are the Pentagon Papers?
This resulted in finding that racial problems were the biggest issue within the country
What is the Kerner Commission?
This organization was created after WWII as an alliance group to help protect member countries from future war events
What is NATO?
What is the HUAC?
This event was a protest in Mississippi about voting rights
What is the Freedom Summer?
What is the Tet Offensive?
What are Levittowns?