Cold War
Senator from Wisconsin who alleged communists were in the State Department and later the Army
Joe McCarthy
Mass produced cookie-cutter houses in this community
Levittown
The Big Three during WWII
FDR, Stalin and Churchill
Case which overruled Plessy vs. Ferguson and declared “separate but equal” unconstitutional
Brown vs. Board of Education
Supreme Court Case that upheld the internment of Japanese Americans
Korematsu vs. United States
Example of Truman Doctrine by helping countries resisting communism with financial aid (2 countries)
$400 Million to Greece and Turkey
This launch led to increase in Federal spending on science and math education and creation of NASA
Sputnik
His foreign policy approach was massive retaliation – build up atomic weapons to deter Soviet Union from using theirs
Eisenhower (and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles)
Law passed under Lyndon Johnson’s administration that helped enforce the promise of the 15th Amendment.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Labor Law passed over Truman’s veto that rolled back some Union rights and made the “closed” shop illegal
Taft-Hartley Act
Plan for USA to provide financial assistance to war-torn nations to help them rebuild following WWII
Marshall Plan
Huge population increase during 1946-1964 is known as
Baby Boom
Convicted of perjury after investigation by HUAC led by Richard Nixon
Alger Hiss
He advocated "Black Power" and during the Civil rights Movement marking a shift toward Black nationalism.
Stokely Carmichael
Presidential candidates in the 1948 election (name at least 2)
Truman (Democrat), Dewey (Republican),Thurmond (Dixiecrat),Wallace (Progressive)
Eisenhower administration planned it, Kennedy administration implemented it, and it failed miserably in Cuba
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Eisenhower warned of risks associated with this during his Farewell Address
Military-Industrial Complex
Leader of the Soviet Union during Cuban Missile Crisis
Khrushchev
Two Black Civil Rights leaders who were assassinated in the 1960's: one favored nonviolent civil disobedience and one favored Black empowerment, self-reliance, and using any means necessary.
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcom X
Meeting where the big three agreed: to divide Germany, that the Soviet Union would enter war with Japan, and free elections would be conducted in Eastern Europe
Yalta Conference
This President fired this General because he publicly disagreed with the President’s decision not to engage China in this conflict
Harry Truman
Douglas MacArthur
Korean War
These writers challenged middle class values and conformity of the 1950’s
Beat Generation (examples: Ginsberg, Kerouac)
His long telegram established the policy of containment – goal to prevent the spread of communism
George Kennan
His brutal murder at age 14 brought nationwide attention to racial violence and injustice in the South.
Emmett Till
Name the Alliance of Western Democratic Nations and Alliance of Eastern/Central Communist Nations
NATO and Warsaw Pact