WWII
What event initiated the U.S.'s involvement in WWII
What is Pearl Harbor?
During the Cold War, this term __________ came to symbolize this growing barrier between Eastern and Western Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
The rise of this industry led to the popularity of fast-food restaurants
What is automobile?
Who refused to give up her bus seat to a white man and started the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Who is Rosa Parks?
This group was a communist guerilla militia group that found against the United States in South Vietnam
What is the Viet Cong?
What event led to the end of WWII?
What are the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
What is the name of the theory where if one country falls to communism neighboring countries will also fall to communism?
What is the Domino Theory?
Which Wisconsin Senator accused the State Department of employing communists in the 1950s?
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
What important doctrine did the Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Supreme Court case establish?
What is "Seperate but Equal?"
What event triggered the escalation of the conflict in Vietnam for the United States?
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?
Which of the following battles turned the tide of the Pacific War in favor of the Allies?
What is the Battle of Midway
_______________ was an economic plan designed to help Western Europe rebuild after WWII
What is the Marshall Plan?
___________ is the title of the book that highlighted how severe the national poverty crisis was in the 1950s
What is The Other America?
What Supreme Court Case overturned Plessy V Ferguson?
What is Brown V. Board?
Which event in Vietnam turned American opinion against the war in Vietnam?
What is the Tet Offensive?
What were the two purposes of the Double V Campaign?
What is victory in war and racial equality at home?
The Truman Doctrine provided money and aid to Greece and Turkey after World War II in an effort to stop the spread of communism in those countries. What is the name of the post World War II policy that developed from the Truman Doctrine?
What is Containment?
The ____________ provided cheap home loans and financial aid to WWII veterans to help them comfortably assimilate back to civilian life.
What is the GI Bill?
What religious group did Malcolm X belong to
What is the Nation of Islam?
_____ is a mental health condition that's triggered by a terrifying event — either experiencing it or witnessing it. Many Vietnam Veterans suffer from this condition.
What is PTSD?
What was the name of the program of research and development undertaken during World War II to produce the first nuclear weapons?
What is the Manhattan Project?
The Korean War left Korea divided between ___________ North Korea and _____________ South Korea
What is communist/non-communist?
This popular TV show depicted traditional family values in the 1950s
What is Leave it to Beaver?
What city was considered to be the most segregated city in the South?
What is Birmingham, Alabama?
This term refers to the gap between what American politicians would tell the public about Vietnam versus what was actually happening.
What is the credibility gap?