Cold War Conflicts
This Wisconsin senator made accusations that communism was widely present in the U.S. government and military.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
This 1955-1956 protest began after Rosa Parks was arrested.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This organization investigated Americans suspected of communist ties.
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
This attack during the Vietnam War led to international outrage after the killing of women and children.
What is the My Lai Massacre?
Why could the Little Rock Nine not attend school on their first day?
What is they were blocked by the state troopers?
This U.S. policy provided $400 million to Turkey and Greece to stop the spread of communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
He was murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman.
Who is Emmett Till?
This alliance was formed in peacetime by 12 Western countries.
What is NATO?
This event led to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?
Reasons for the Counterculture Movement included protests against this war and society’s norms.
What are the Vietnam War and traditional societal values?
This event in the Vietnam War caused doubts about America's success and mistrust of the government.
What is the Tet Offensive?
This Civil Rights leader advocated for Mexican American farm workers.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
The loss of this country to communism in 1949 shocked the U.S.
What is China?
Jim Crow laws were passed to get around the equal protection afforded citizens by this Constitutional amendment.
What is the 14th amendment?
One goal of the Civil Rights Act of 1965.
What is banning discriminatory voting practices (like literacy tests)?
The Russian satellite that orbited the globe and sparked fear in Americans.
What is Sputnik?
The name of the event where four students were shot protesting the Vietnam War.
What is the Kent State Massacre?
Term used by Winston Churchill to describe the division in Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
This controversial protest event became known as "Bloody Sunday."
What is the first Selma to Montgomery March?
This U.S. president ordered a naval blockade during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This term describes how the U.S. approached confrontation with the USSR by going to the edge of war.
What is brinkmanship?
This controversial protest event became known as "Bloody Sunday."
What is the first Selma to Montgomery March?
This theory suggested that if one country fell to communism, others would follow.
What is the Domino Theory?
Supreme Court case that declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This agricultural workers’ strike from 1965–1970 aimed to improve wages and working conditions for farm laborers.
What is the Delano Grape Strike?