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 competition started in 1957 with the Soviet launching of Sputnik.
What is the Space Race?
This President signed both the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act Act of 1965.
Who is President Lyndon B. Johnson?
This federal welfare program was created to provide healthcare for senior citizens who were 65 years or older.
What is Medicare?
This is the Enlightenment era concept that the people and the government create an agreement on what the government should do, and if the government violates that agreement the people have a right to overthrow the government.
What is the Social Contract
This President was responsible for the handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This was considered a key "symbol" of the barrier between Communist Eastern Europe and Democratic Western Europe and was brought down in the late 1980s.
What is the Berlin Wall?
The open casket funeral of this young boy who was lynched for allegedly whistling at a white woman was instrumental in changing public opinion about the severity of racism in the south.
Who is Emmett Till?
This education program was created to help children start school as early as possible.
What is the Head Start Program?
This decade saw the rise of "consumerism" and "buying on credit", both factors that contributed to the Great Depression.
What is the 1920s?
This President signed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution which ramped up the American troop involvement in Vietnam.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This was the failed Kennedy era action that attempted to use Cuban Exiles to overthrow the communist government in Cuba.
What was the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
This Civil Rights Organization was known for their Free Breakfast program, as well as their policy of openly carrying loaded weapons in the streets to discourage policy brutality.
Who are the Black Panthers?
This law was passed in the hopes that hunger would be prevented for lower income Americans.
What is the Food Stamp Act of 1964?
This US policy, after WW2, gave approximately $13 billion to Western European countries to help them rebuild after the war and stop the spread of communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This was the Communist leader of Cuba following the Cuban Revolution of 1959.
Who is Fidel Castro?
Following Sputnik, this is why the American government was so concerned with the launching of satellites into space.
The bombing of a Black church in this city was critical in the beginning of the rise of the Black Power Movement.
What is Birmingham Alabama?
This event resulted in an increased emphasis on STEM education in America and the extension of schooling in South Carolina from 11 years of education to 12 years of education.
What is the launch of Sputnik 1?
This former US President ran again for President in 1912, splitting the Republican vote and allowing Woodrow Wilson to be elected.
Who is Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt?
This was the Soviet leader who "blinked first" during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
This university was where 4 students were killed by National Guardsmen and heightened the anti-Vietnam War movement in the United States.
What is Kent State University?
This is the year of the Olympics where sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised black gloves in a show of support for the Black Power movement.
What is the 1968 Olympics?
This governmental organization run by the Department of Labor was founded to provide vocational and academic training for Americans seeking work.
What is the Jobs Corps?
What is The American System?