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This executive order led to the internment of Japanese Americans.
🟩 What is Executive Order 9066?
This policy aimed to stop the spread of communism.
What is containment?
This 1961 failed invasion tried to overthrow Fidel Castro.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
This 1954 case ruled that segregation in schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This doctrine supported U.S. involvement in Vietnam to prevent communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This U.S. military program developed the first atomic bomb
What is the Manhattan Project?
This plan gave billions to rebuild Western Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This was the most dangerous Cold War standoff, involving missiles in Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This 1965 act banned discriminatory voting practices like literacy tests.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This policy aimed to gradually withdraw U.S. troops from Vietnam.
What is Vietnamization?
This 1941 program allowed the U.S. to send supplies to Allies without direct involvement.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
This military alliance was formed to protect Western Europe from the Soviets.
What is NATO?
This event launched the space race between the U.S. and USSR.
What is the launch of Sputnik?
He promoted nonviolence while advocating for civil rights.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Many Americans protested this war due to its unclear goals and rising casualties.
What is the Vietnam War?
This concept involved fighting racism abroad and at home.
What is the Double V Campaign?
This event began when North Korea invaded South Korea.
What is the Korean War?
Kennedy’s defense strategy offering multiple military options.
What is a flexible response?
This protest strategy involved sitting at segregated lunch counters.
What is a sit-in?
This cultural movement opposed mainstream values and supported peace.
What is the counterculture?
These Native Americans created an unbreakable military code.
Who were the Navajo Code Talkers?
This competition to build more powerful nuclear weapons defined U.S.–Soviet tensions.
What is the Nuclear Arms Race?
This 1960s initiative aimed to reduce poverty and racial injustice.
What is the Great Society?
These civil rights activists rode buses to protest segregation in the South.
Who were the Freedom Riders?
This 1965 law changed U.S. immigration quotas and increased diversity.
What is the Immigration Act of 1965?