Postwar America
This idea was emphasized in the 1950s as many Americans were afraid of being labeled communist.
What is conformity?
This was created by Lyndon B. Johnson to attempt to improve the lives of Americans by creating things like the Economic Opportunity Act, Medicare and Medicaid.
What is the Great Society?
This case ruled that "separate but equal" education for black and white students was unconstitutional, overturning the precedent set by Plessy vs. Ferguson.
What is Brown vs. the Board of Education?
This is the theory that if one country fell to communism then other countries in Southeast Asia will fall.
What is the domino theory?
This event ended because the USSR could not keep up with massive spike in defense spending by the US.
What is the Cold War?
This phenomena where soldiers began to settle down when they came home from war, due to this the population had its greatest increase from 1940 to 1955.
What is the baby boom?
After this event the US was unsuccessful in its plan to train Cuban exiles to overthrow Fidel Castro in communist Cuba.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
This group developed programs for African Americans to help themselves and their communizes and is also known for violent tactics.
Who are the Black Panthers?
This country used Vietnam as a colony and Truman agreed to help their effort to regain control of the country.
What is France?
This was Ronald Reagan's economic policy that consisted of budget cuts, tax cuts and increased defense spending.
William Levitt massed produced houses to create these, it appealed to people to have a new home with space and continued to follow the ideas of conformity in the 1950s.
What are suburbs?
This movement began in the 1960s as many young Americans began to turn their back on traditional America and tried to establish a new society based on peace and love.
What is the counterculture movement?
Racial separation established by practice and custom, not law vs. racial separation established by law.
What is de facto vs. de jure segregation?
This passed through countries like Laos and Cambodia that allowed the Vietcong to send supplies during the war.
What is the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
This is a flexible approach to dealing with communist nations and a policy to ease Cold War tensions.
This is where white middle class America began leaving cities to live in suburbs and many African Americas were left behind in the cities.
What is white flight?
JKF's policy of preparing for a variety of military responses to conflict rather than focusing on use of nuclear weapons.
What is Flexible Response?
This event was created with the goal of persuading Congress to pass a civil rights bill that would ban segregation and job discrimination.
What is the March on Washington?
This act allowed President Johnson declare war against North Vietnam without asking Congress.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
These helped to show that Nixon participated in coverup of a crime.
This is where products were designed to wear out or become outdated quickly, this led to increased consumerism in the 1950s.
What is planned obsolescence?
John F. Kennedy won the election of 1960 without this, which required him to move more cautiously once in office.
What is a mandate?
This high school faced difficulties when trying to desegrate, forcing President Eisenhower to step in to enforce the law.
What is Little Rock Central High School?
What is Vietnamization?
This event occurred during Carter's presidency where a group took the American embassy.
What is the Iranian Hostage Crisis?