Early Cold War
1. Replaced the League of Nations in 1945 and was a much more effective international peace and security operation.
2. Created in 1949, this was the first peacetime military alliance in US history (joined with 12 other western nations).
1. UN
2. NATO
Eisenhower's theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries...
Domino Theory
The President that signed into law the Interstate Highway Act to help move our troops more effectively during the Cold War (last name)
Eisenhower
The President that signed an Executive Order to end segregation in the military.
Truman
These helped to reveal the impact of TV on shaping opinions about who should be the next President of the US.
JFK/Nixon Debates
Churchill's term for the division of Europe between western democracies and soviet satellite states after WW II.
Iron Curtain
1. first "hot" war we fought in Asia to prevent the spread of Communism was fought here.
2. Recommendation to quadruple defense spending and rapidly expand armed forces to address Cold War tensions.
1. Korea
2. NSC-68
1. Helped returning soldiers from WW II reintegrate to civilian life by securing loans, assisting w/ educational opportunities etc.
2. Demographic explosion that occurred.
3. Affordable housing that was first constructed in NY.
1. GI Bill
2. Baby Boom
3. Levittowns.
1. Supreme Court decision that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson by abolishing racial segregation in public schools.
2. The lead lawyer from the NAACP in that case who eventually became the first African American in the Supreme Court.
1. Brown v. Board
2. Thurgood Marshall
The 45- year-long diplomatic tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union that divided much of the world into polarized camps, capitalist against communist.
Cold War
Massive transfer of aid money to help rebuild postwar Europe and reduce communist appeal.
Marshall Plan
The US intervened in multiple countries and altered or attempted to alter their governments during the Cold War.
List 3 countries that are examples of places the US intervened in (outside of Europe):
Iran
Guatemala
Korea
Vietnam
Congo
1. LBJ’s domestic policy agenda that aimed to promote civil rights and fighting poverty via a “War on Poverty.”
2. Name one of these programs that were created.
1. Great Society
2. Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, HUD, Office of Economic Opportunity.
1. The most famous leader of the Civil Rights Movement who favored a policy of civil disobedience and non-violent peaceful resistance.
2. He wrote this in defense of his and the movement's tactics when white clergy member argued they needed to end disobedience and be more patient.
3. At what event did he deliver his "I Have a Dream Speech?"
4. The organization did he help found and lead to achieve the goals of the Movement with fellow religious leaders.
1. MLK
2. Letter from Birmingham Jail
3. March on Washington.
4. SCLC
These writers challenged the "cultural homogeneity of the 1950s"
Beat Writers
1949 was an impactful year. List 2 major developments that helped to accelerate the Cold War that year.
NATO formed
Soviets detonate first atomic bomb (Arms Race)
China turns Communists
1. In 1959 this Communist leader led a revolution and installed a new government in Cuba. (Last name)
2. In 1960 he became the first Catholic President in the US. (abbreviation acceptable)
3. Failed CIA plot to overthrow the Cuban leader by training Cuban exiles to invade.
4. brought the world’s superpowers close to the brink of nuclear confrontation after nukes were discovered on an island close to the U.S.
5. the US President decided to do this to keep Soviet ships from reaching Cuba.
1. Castro
2. JFK
3. Bay of Pigs
4. Cuban Missile Crisis
5. Naval Quarantine
1. Launched by the Soviets, this was the first satellite that was successfully put into orbit.
2. The law that was passed in response to this to improve school and challenge students, especially in math and science.
3. The organization did the government create to help us win the Space Race.
4. The President that challenged the US to reach the moon by the end of the 1960s.
1. Sputnik
2. National Defense of Education Act
3. NASA
4. JFK
1. Federal law that banned racial discrimination in public facilities and strengthened the Federal government’s power to fight segregation in schools.
2. The Constitutional Amendment that ended the Poll Tax
3. Legislation that prohibited ballot-denying tactics, such as literacy tests and intimidation.
4. The President was in office when each of these laws were signed into law or ratified
1. Civil Rights Act of 1964
2. 24th
3. Voting Rights Act of 1965
4. LBJ
Name the river Woody fell in at Lax practice.
Etowah.
1. Cold War policy of the United States and its allies to prevent the spread of communism abroad.
2. Who was it proposed by (or what document)?
3. The first event/development that demonstrated this policy first became our official foreign policy. This gave aid to Greece and Turkey.
1. Containment
2. George Keenan, "Long Telegram"
3. Truman Doctrine
1. The former European colonizer that sought to regain their territory of Indochina after WW II.
2. The Communist, Nationalist leader who proclaimed Vietnamese independence.
3. This ended the war between those two sides and created a North and South Vietnam.
4. Name the 4 presidents that had the most involvement in Vietnam and circle the one that sent in combat troops.
5. This was the most serious blow to that President's admin. and it feature a coordinated attack of major cities throughout S. Vietnam in 1968
1. France
2. Ho Chi Minh
3. Geneva Accords
4. Eisenhower-JFK-LBJ (cirlced)-Nixon
5. Tet Offensive
1. The period of fear and anxieties about Communists expansion and the subversion of the American government in the 1940s and 1950s.
2. The House of Representatives in 1938 created this as a way to investigate “subversion”. Sought to expose communist influence in American government and society. (abbv. fine)
3. Powerful US Senator who became famous after telling Americas he knew of specific Communist infiltrators working with the US government.
4. Brand of vitriolic, fear-mongering anti-communism associated with the career of that Senator.
1. Second Red Scare
2. HUAC
3. McCarthy
4. McCarthyism
1. Sparked by Rosa Park’s refusal to give up her seat on a city bus, this protest was against segregated seating on city buses.
2. College students protested racial segregation in restaurants by sitting at a “whites only” lunch counter.
3. Organized mixed-race groups who rode interstate buses to draw attention to, and in protest of, racial segregation.
4. A voter registration drive in Mississippi which was marred by the abduction and murder of three civil rights workers.
5. Planned March from here to Montgomery that led to "Bloody Sunday" attack by police on the Edmund Pettis Bridge
1. Montgomery Bus Boycott
2. Sit-Ins
3. Freedom Rides
4. Freedom Summer
5. Selma
1. Gave the President unlimited powers, without congressional approval to wage war in Vietnam.
2. This was reversed by what law that limited the Pres powers
3. Slaughter of Viet. civilians by US Soldiers in 1968.
4. After the invasion of Cambodia this was the event where 4 college students were killed in Ohio
1. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
2. War Powers Act
3. My Lai Massacre
4. Kent State Massacre