WW2 and the "American" Homefront
These are the names of the two opposing groups of nations during WW2.
Axis vs. Allies
This is the number of years (roughly) that the Cold War lasted.
about 45 years.
This is the number of children born between 1946 and 1964, also called "the Baby Boom".
roughly 50 million.
This is the name of the 14-year old boy who was murdered while visiting family in Mississippi after having been accused of whistling at a white woman; the picture of his body was published nationwide at his mother's request.
his name is Emmett Till.
This is a 1930's policy wherein you give into the demands of a powerful aggressor/nation in order to avoid going to war with them.
Appeasement.
This is the name of the order that resulted in putting all people of Japanese heritage into internment camps all around the United States.
Executive Order 9066
Between 06.1948 and 05.1949, this effort dropped food, medicine, fuel and other important things into a German city blockaded by the USSR.
the Berlin Airlift.
This is the name given to the event wherein both the U.S. and the USSR fired nuclear weapons at all of their targets, simultaneously, guaranteeing a Nuclear Winter.
Mutually Assured Destruction
This is the number of major Civil Rights legislative acts passed by President LBJ's administration.
4;
the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965, and the Civil Rights Act of 1968
A tactic to avoid conflict where one side is pushed to the point where they start to ALMOST engage in conflict, but then back down or concede.
Brinksmanship
Name THREE protagonists during World War 2.
Australia, Britain, Canada, China, France, Holland, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Africa, The U.S., the USSR
"Containment" was one of the main components of this major U.S. strategy towards the USSR during the Cold War.
the Truman Doctrine.
A "Proxy War" is one where major powers use smaller nations to fight wars on their behalf, and one of the proxy wars during the Cold War was __________ .
the Korean War or the Vietnam War
This organization began fighting for racial equality in 1909, and had members like Thurgood Marshall, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, and Walter White.
the NAACP.
This is the method wherein the Republican Party used "coded language" to appeal to white, former Democratic Party members in order to gain power in the southern states.
the "Southern Strategy".
This was the name given to the secret U.S. project to create a nuclear weapon.
The Manhattan Project.
Senator Joseph McCarthy led an effort to find secret Communists embedded in the U.S. government and throughout society that was called this.
the Red Scare.
The name of this 13-day period that almost saw nuclear armageddon when the USSR put nuclear weapons 90 miles away from the U.S.
the Cuban Missile Crisis
In 1961, this effort began when college students sat in the wrong sections of buses in southern states to challenge segregation laws.
the Freedom Rides
This practice of racial/social separation in things like housing and education WITHOUT BEING MANDATED BY LAW.
de facto segregation.
These were the THREE main antagonist nations of World War 2.
Italy, Germany, and Japan.
On November 22nd, 1963, this man was murdered in Dallas, Texas.
The name of the structure built by the USSR to divide a German city into a Soviet side and a Democratic side.
the Berlin Wall
These were the ages of the four girls who were murdered when the KKK bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama in September of 1963.
one girl was 11 and three girls were 14.
A name for countries who are influenced/controlled by a stronger nation economically, politically, militarily, etc.
Satellite Nations.