Cold War
What was an effect od the Berlin Airlifts?
Showed US commitment to containment
What two countries were involved in the Space Race?
US and USSR
What was Kennedy's "Flexible Repsonse"?
dialing back on massive retaliation
the SNCC was known for initiating what events?
sit-ins
What amendment granted women the right to vote?
19th
Soviet Governments in Eastern Europe that were under Soviet Control and communist were known as?
Satellite States
What is the term for the battle line that the United States and South Koreans held around the southeast corner of the Korean Peninsula?
Busan Perimeter
What was the effect of the Watergate Scandal?
Decreased Americans trust in the government
What did the Tennessee Valley Authority do?
built dams and provided cheap electricity
The publication of Howl helped lead to what movement of the 1960s?
Counterculture
Where did the United States attack the North Koreans behind their battle lines?
Incheon
Not actively attacking the USSR, but also not allowing the influence of the Soviet Union to spread is called what?
Policy of Containment
When the economy is not growing but inflation is still happening, this is known as what?
employment in conservation projects in national parks happened under what program?
CCC
During what event did white southerners start to vote Republican as Republicans started to adopt conservative policies?
Sunbelt Migration
What was the first major test of Containment?
Korean War
The US gave money and supplies to European countries to rebuild economies in what plan?
The Marshall Plan
Who called himself the "law and order president" ?
Nixon
What was the reason the Equal Rights Amendment did not become part of the United States Constitution?
Three-fourths of the states did not ratify it.
The March on violence and MLK's 'I have a dream" speech helped influence what?
Influenced passage of Civil Rights Act of 1964
What was the Red Scare?
Period of major suspicion that anyone could be a communist
Define Détente
relaxation of tensions, specifically with USSR and China
What document pledged the US to fight spread of communism all over world?
Truman Doctrine
Who was responsible for establishing the term “moral majority” to define the religious right?
Jerry Falwell
Define Nonviolent protest/civil disobedience
peacefully refusing to obey certain unjust laws as a form of protest