WWII
The name for Germany, Italy, and Japan during the war.
Person who refused to give up a seat on the bus, sparking the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Rosa Parks?
If one country converts to communism, neighboring countries will follow and convert to communism as well.
What is the Domino Theory?
Incident that provided a pretext for American military involvement in the Vietnam War.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin incident?
This scandal caused President Nixon to resign
What is Watergate?
The "date that will live in infamy".
What is December 7th, 1941?
The social protest of the public transit system in order to fight racial segregation.
What is the Montgomery bus boycott?
Confrontation between the US and USSR over ballistic missiles in Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Vietnamese Nationalists
Who are the Viet Minh?
The President who pardoned Nixon
Operation Overlord or the invasion at Normandy
What is D-Day?
Speech given by Martin Luther King Jr. during the 'March on Washington'.
What is the 'I have a dream speech'?
Stopping the spread of Communism, but not eliminating it from already communist countries.
What is Containment?
The turning point of the war against the United States
What is the Tet Offensive?
A Peace agreement between Egypt and Israel
Camp David Accords
A diplomatic policy of making political, material, or territorial concessions to an aggressive power in order to avoid conflict
What is appeasement?
Supreme Court case that desegregated schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Name of first USSR satellite put into space
What is the sputnik ?
Group in the South that opposed Ngo Dinh Diem's rule
Who are the Viet Cong?
Thawing out of the cold war (when Nixon goes to Moscow)
Detente
Turning point of the war in the Pacific
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
Phrase coined by Winston Churchill labeling the divide between East and Western Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
Nixon's policy for ending U.S. involvement in Vietnam by handing over the fighting back to the South Vietnamese Army
What is Vietnamization?
Term used to describe the economy during the 1970s
stagflation