Legacies of WWII
American Home Front
The Red Scare
Containment
Early Civil Rights
100
This helped veterans of WWII attend college, start businesses and purchase homes.
The GI Bill
100
In 1948, this group split from the Democratic Party over the issue of discussions on civil rights.
The Dixiecrats
100
This couple became some of the earliest victims of the Red Scare, when they were charged, tried and executed for selling atomic secrets to the Soviets.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
100
Name the act containment pictured below
The Truman Doctrine
100
The NAACP won THIS, its most significant court case to date in 1954, that ended the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling.
Brown v. Board of Education
200
The relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union collapsed at this Allied Conference in 1945.
Potsdam
200
This was the domestic program of President Truman designed to keep programs of the New Deal like minimum wage and social security.
the Fair Deal
200
This group was organized by Congress in the early 1950s to find communists in all aspects of American life, particularly Hollywood, and expel them from public life.
House Un-American Activities Committee
200
As the fight to stop the spread of communism spread to the Middle East and Latin America, Eisenhower used the CIA to remove unfavorable governments in these 2 countries in the 1950s.
Guatemala and Iran
200
The man pictured below is
Malcolm X
300
American fears of space becoming a new realm of the Cold War were realized with this event in 1957 and resulted in this act by Congress.
the orbiting of Sputnik, NDEA (National Defense in Education Act)
300
the image below is an example of
a Levittown home
a suburb
300
the unofficial leader of the communist witch hunt of the late 1940s and early 50s, pictured below:
Joseph McCarthy
300
This was the reason that American taxpayers supported the $13 billion given to European states in the Marshall Plan.
American industry needed an economically sound Europe.
300
This image from 1968 is a representation in support of
Black Power
400
List one legacy of the image below:
a nuclear age of warfare is ushered in
the Soviets and the U.S. are enemies
fear of communism increases in the U.S.
the devastating effects of the nuclear bomb become clear
400
Dwight D. Eisenhower added this agency to his cabinet, as seen below
Department of Heath, Education and Welfare
400
Americans in federal, state and local government employment were required to take loyalty oaths as a part of this act of Congress in 1950.
The McCarran Act
400
The cartoon represents was containment ideology
The Domino Theory
400
This event convinced President Johnson to pass the Voting Rights Act in 1965.
Selma
500
Name the campaign represented by the image below and the group that used it to change the American homefront
The Double V campaign, African Americans
500
President Eisenhower warned in his farewell address of the issue in the image below
military industrial complex
500
This congressional act limited the rights of labor unions, and required all activities reported to the government.
Taft-Hartley Act
500
The belief that the USSR would collapse if allowed to be contained came from the studies and writings of this US spy and late CIA agent.
George Kennan
500
The first president to take action in support of Civil Rights since the Reconstruction Era was
President Truman