Early Cold War Part 1
This was the idea that if one European or Asian country fell to communism, their neighboring countries would fall to communism as well.
What is the Domino Theory?
This alliance was created by the Soviet Union in response to the creation of NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This organization was responsible for organizing much of the Early Civil Rights movement. Rosa Parks, MLK, and Thurgood Marshall were all members. They were responsible for the Brown vs The Board of Education case.
What is the NAACP?
This individual was responsible for coining the term "Iron Curtain" to describe the Soviet control of Eastern Europe.
Who is Winston Churchill?
This person was the best Northern General during the Civil War. He later became president and was instrumental in destroying the first version of the KKK.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This was the economic plan for the United States to help rebuild Western Europe after World War II to help prevent the spread the communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This was the name given to the first major operation of the Cold War that gave aid to citizens within Soviet-controlled Germany.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This concept was used by MLK Jr. and other non-violent members of the Civil Rights movement. They refused to follow laws that they considered to be wrong or immoral.
What is "civil disobedience"?
This individual was accused of going on a "witch hunt" that targeted government employees as he looked for Communist in the government.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
What Supreme Court case created the concept of "judicial review"?
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This country fell to communism in 1949 leading to the "2nd Red Scare" and accusations that President Truman was weak on communism.
What is China?
This was the name of the Committee that Senator Joseph McCarthy and others used to "find" Communists in the government.
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee?
This was the 1954 Supreme Court Decision that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson (1898) and led to the desegregation of schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education (1954)?
This NAACP lawyer successfully won the Supreme Court case that ended segregation in public schools.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
In the lead up to the Civil War abolitionists and pro-slavery advocates fought a small scale war known as this, as a result of using popular sovereignty to determine the issue of slavery.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
These were the two countries that the Truman Doctrine most targeted at the beginning of the policy.
What is Turkey and Greece?
This concept is related to the Arms Race of the Cold War. It says that if either world power were to launch a nuclear strike that the other would respond and everyone would die.
What is "mutually assured destruction"?
President Dwight Eisenhower called in the National Guard to escort Black students into this high school.
What is Little Rock High School?
This person was the leader of the communists forces in North Korea during the Korean war and the first dictator of communists North Korea.
Who is Kim Il Sung?
This was the name for the time period after the War of 1812 when the Federalist Party fell from power and the Democratic-Republicans controlled the country.
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
Following World War II, the Soviets and Joseph Stalin had control of this region in Europe.
What is Eastern Europe?
This was the dividing line between North and South Korea.
What is the 38th Parallel?
This type of type of segregation that is the result of Jim Crow laws.
What is "de jure" segregation?
This Korean War general was fired by President Truman for privately lobbying in Congress to use nuclear weapons in the Korean war.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
This President was responsible for creating the concept of "Big Stick Diplomacy" in international relations, especially in Latin America.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?