Cold War
In this speech, Winston Churchill warned of the danger of war in a world with nuclear weapons.
The Iron Curtain speech (a.k.a. The Sinews of Peace)
This Supreme Court decision ruled that segregation in schools is unconstitutional.
Brown v. Board of Education
Title IX, a law that required colleges to treat the sexes equally, was the fruit of this 60's and 70's cultural movement.
Feminism
Ronald Reagan's approach to economics included making it easier for these to make money, which he hoped would create more prosperity overall.
Businesses
The Space Race was a facet of this larger conflict.
the Cold War
This was the US strategy during the Cold War. It was guided by the assumption that communists wanted to spread communism all over the world.
Containment
Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Junior led a boycott of this service in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregation.
Busses
This group of people protested the Vietnam war, but also engaged in drug culture and advocated "free love."
Hippies
Lyndon Johnson's belief that the government should solve social problems resulted in many new government programs, collectively called this.
the Great Society
After World War II ended, America's expanding consumer culture of cars, TV, and electric appliances was proof that it was now this.
The most prosperous country in the world
Reagan's SDI (Star Wars) plan was effective against the Soviets because Soviets lacked this key resource that America had in abundance.
Money
In this speech, Martin Luther King Jr said that he looked forward to an America where people were judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I Have a Dream
This new type of music grew out of Rhythm and Blues and was pioneered by sister Rosetta Tharpe and more famously by Elvis Presley.
Rock and Roll
This scandal involved a plan to wiretap the phones of the Democratic party. It is one of the two major reasons why Americans stopped trusting the government in the 70s.
Watergate
America effectively won the Space Race by sending the first men to ever do this.
Walk on the Moon
During the Cold War, schools sometimes had this type of drill.
Atomic Bomb drills
Jackie Robinson faced discrimination as the first black person to play this.
Major League Baseball
The conservative movement of the 1980s was partially brought about by Americans' reaction to this Supreme Court decision that declared abortion a constitutional right.
Roe v. Wade
The Pentagon Papers revealed that the US government had not been entirely honest about US involvement in this war. They were one of the two major reasons why Americans stopped trusting the government in the 70s.
the Vietnam War
The Cold War ended in part because Ronald Reagan had a good relationship with this Soviet leader.
Mikhail Gorbachev
This Cold War conflict started going badly for the US when China stepped into the fight on the side of the communists.
The Korean War
It was important to Martin Luther King Jr that civil rights protests have this distinctive trait (he said that the black community of Birmingham, Alabama went through "self purification" in order to achieve it).
Nonviolence
In the 50's, in part because of the "baby boom," Americans moved from the country and the city into these types of communities that featured rows of similar houses.
Suburbs
This president echoed the thoughts of many Americans during the 1980s when he said, "The scariest words in the English language are 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"
Ronald Reagan
When Little Rock High School refused to desegregate, President Eisenhower sent these people to protect the new black students.
soldiers/the national guard