WWII
Requirement that belligerent nations not use credit and must transport goods from the USA was known as
Cash and Carry Policy
Senator from Wisconsin who alleged communists were in the State Department and later the Army
Joe McCarthy
Mass produced cookie-cutter houses in this community
Levittown
She refused to give up her seat leading to the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks
He delivered the "I have a dream speech" in this city
Martin Luther King in Washington D.C.
In 1941, in an effort to help arm England, the US implemented this program allowing the purchase on credit and transport by USA to Iceland.
Lend Lease
Example of Truman Doctrine by helping countries resisting communism with financial aid (2 countries)
$400 Million to Greece and Turkey
This launch led to increase in Federal spending on science and math education and creation of NASA
Sputnik
His foreign policy approach was massive retaliation – build up atomic weapons to deter Soviet Union from using theirs
Eisenhower (Secretary of State John Foster Dulles)
Law passed under Lyndon Johnson’s administration that helped enforce the promise of the 15th Amendment.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
A date that will live in infamy …
December 7, 1941 – Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
Plan for USA to provide financial assistance to war-torn nations to help them rebuild following WWII
Marshall Plan
Huge population increase during 1946-1964 is known as
Baby Boom
Convicted of perjury after investigation by HUAC led by Richard Nixon
Alger Hiss
Labor Law passed over Truman’s veto that rolled back some Union rights and made the “closed” shop illegal
Taft-Hartley Act
Supreme Court Case that upheld the internment of Japanese Americans
Korematsu vs. United States
Eisenhower administration planned it, Kennedy administration implemented it, and it failed miserably in Cuba
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Eisenhower warned of risks associated with this during his Farewell Address
Military-Industrial Complex
Leader of the Soviet Union during Cuban Missile Crisis
Khrushchev
Incident where President Eisenhower sent federal troops to a state to protect the African American students and to enforce integration
Little Rock 9
Meeting where the big three agreed: to divide Germany, that the Soviet Union would enter war with Japan, and free elections would be conducted in Eastern Europe
Yalta Conference
This President fired this General because he publicly disagreed with the President’s decision not to engage China in this conflict
Harry Truman
Douglas MacArthur
Korean War
These writers challenged middle class values and conformity of the 1950’s
Beat Generation (examples: Ginsberg, Kerouac)
His long telegram established the policy of containment – goal to prevent the spread of communism
George Kennan
Case which overruled Plessy vs. Ferguson and declared “separate but equal” unconstitutional
Brown vs. Board of Education