The Cold War
This country suffered the most casualties in WWII, thus they went to war with the U.S. in the following decades
Soviet Union
The name for the North Korean Army
Viet Cong
Leader of the nonviolent protest movement, assassinated in '68
Martin Luther King Jr.
Truman's Foreign Policy / attempting to stop the spread of Communism
Containment
The concept of massive population expansion, adding more than 50 million births
Baby Boom
The concept of accusing people of being Communist based on little or no proof - led to suspicion and hysteria in the '50s
McCarthyism
This American General was relieved of his duty after acting against his orders in Korea
General Douglas MacArthur
This group of blacks and whites tested a court ruling by riding public buses together, ultimately facing mobs and firebombs
Freedom Riders
This president desegregated the military
Harry S. Truman
He could have been the Democratic President Nominee in '69 had he not been assassinated in '68.
Robert F. Kennedy
This term describes the divide between Communist Europe (the Warsaw Pact) and Non-Communist Europe (NATO)
The Iron Curtain
The name for the divide between Communist North Korea and Democratic South Korea
The 38th Parallel
This Court Case found that segregation in schools was unconstitutional
Brown v. Board of Education
Marshall Plan
An anti-establishment, anti-war, anti-traditional America societal phenomenon mostly affecting white middle class youths in the 60s & 70s
Counterculture
A dangerous confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States in 1962 in which they came the closest to nuclear conflict.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Turning point of the Vietnam War, occurring in 1968. The North launched an attack against targets in South Vietnam.
Tet Offensive
A term to describe segregation by custom rather by law, i.e. black communities living in city slums
De Facto Segregation
JFK's military policy based on being prepared for a variety of actions, not JUST nuclear war.
Flexible Response
1st openly gay elected official in America; assassinated within 2 years
Harvey Milk
This group investigated all radical groups, then focused on Communist spies, in America; famous for investigating the Hollywood 10.
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
This gave President Johnson broad military powers to act without Congress' approval
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
A group formed under LBJ to investigate urban race riots; found that economic disparity and white racism was the root of the riots
Kerner Commission
JFK's domestic policy regarding outer space exploration and dealing with prejudice and poverty in America.
New Frontier
A literary movement that rejected conformity much like the Rock n' Roll music artists of the 50s; these authors included Jack Kerouac & Allen Ginsberg
Beat Generation