Pot Luck
Cold War (2)
Cold War (1)
Presidents
1950s
100

This Civil Rights law was passed in 1965 to prevent situations like the tent cities in west Tennessee and the deaths of 3 Freedom Summer workers in Mississippi in 1964.

Voting Rights Act of 1965

100

Eastern European countries that were controlled by Stalin's communist regime

Satellites

100

The Red Scare of the 1950s led to the building of these structures

bomb shelters

100

He ordered a naval blockade to be placed around Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

John Kennedy

100

Consumer product that created the greatest change on the U.S. society during the decade of the 1950s.

Television

200

This recording studio in Memphis, Tennessee is known for Soul Music and launched the careers of many African American artists.

Stax Records

200

U.S. foreign policy from the 1950s, it threatened the use of nuclear weapons 

Brinkmanship

200

An official U.S. foreign policy after World War II.  The goal was to stop the expansion of Communism.

Containment

200

This was a U.S. pledge to help any country resisting communism by sending them money, weapons and food.

Truman Doctrine

200

Elvis Presley was discovered in 1953 at this recording studio in Memphis, Tennessee.

Sun Records

300

The Interstate Highway Act would be important for the U.S. military and the U.S. economy.  American suburbs greatly expanded.  President ______ signed this act into law in the mid 1950s.

Eisenhower

300

The Bay of Pigs invasion was an attempt to remove this communist leader from power.

Fidel Castro

300

The U.S. entered this competition after the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957.

Space Race

300

This President called for a "Great Society" that would end poverty in the United States.

Lyndon Johnson

300

The GI Bill and the Interstate Highway Act greatly expanded ________ all across the U.S. after World War II.

Suburbs

400

This U.S. Senator became known as America's best known fighter against the communist threat inside the United States.

Joe McCarthy

400

This was the Soviet response to the formation of NATO

Warsaw Pact

400

These actors, producers and directors refused to answer questions from HUAC concerning the communist threat and were arrested

Hollywood 10

400

He signed the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Lyndon Johnson

400

He discovered Elvis at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee.

Sam Phillips

500

A President Kennedy strategy to have a military with many options other than just a nuclear response.

Flexible Response

500

He was shot down over the Soviet Union in an U-2 spy plane in 1960.

Gary Powers

500

This Chinese leader and U.S. ally, fled Communist China in 1949 and moved with his followers to present day Taiwan

Chiang Kai-Shek

500

He was President Eisenhower's Secretary of State that promoted the policies of Massive Retaliation and Brinkmanship. (John F. ____________)

Dulles

500

This famous Tennessee Congressman and two time Vice-Presidential candidate, led televised congressional hearings into organized crime.

Estes Kefauver

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