Cold War Part I
Theory that if one country fell to communism, others around it would also fall.
What is the Domino Theory?
Declared immediate economic and military aid to the governments of Greece and Turkey.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
In the postwar era, many Americans moved away from cities and into ________
What are suburbs?
The fall of this symbolized the end of the Cold War.
A plan to provide Europe with $13 billion in economic aid.
What is the Marshall Plan?
A 13-day confrontation that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to war over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Strategies used by CORE, SNCC, SCLC, and the NAACP were similar in that they were all __________ strategies.
What is nonviolent?
Real wages ________ for the working and middle class amid growing economic inequality.
What is stagnated?
Period following WWII of public fear and anxiety over the supposed rise of communist or socialist ideologies in a noncommunist state.
What is the Second Red Scare?
China and the Soviet Union did not anticipate the United States entry into this war in 1950.
What is the Korean War?
Many Americans opposed U.S. involvement in this war based on moral grounds as well as being appalled by the devastation and violence of the war.
What is the Vietnam War?
Outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Jobs in these industries started to decrease in the 1960s, one reason being the adoption of digital technologies.
What is manufacturing?
Abolished an earlier quota system based on national origin and established a new immigration policy based on reuniting immigrant families and attracting skilled labor to the United States.
What is the Immigration Act of 1965?
A geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism after the end of World War II.
What is containment?
Diplomatic initiatives between these two leaders helped end the Cold War.
Who are Khrushchev and Reagan?
A 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boytcott?
A domestic program in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs.
What is the Great Society?
NOW fought for the passage of this, which would provide a legal guarantee for equal opportunities for women.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment?
The Reagan administration implemented the “anticommunist ideology” by creating a stock pile of these.
What are nuclear weapons?
The political practice of publicizing accusations of disloyalty or subversion with insufficient regard to evidence is known as this
This movement sought to gain compensation for past government land policies.
What is the American Indian Movement?
A belief in limited government, individualism, and traditionalism.
What is Conservatism?
A failed attack launched by the CIA during the Kennedy administration to push Cuban leader Fidel Castro from power.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?