World War II (the War)
The 6 million were killed in the holocaust.
Who were the Jewish people?
This post-war program allowed veterans to attend college for free (with some exceptions based on race).
What was the G.I. Bill?
Created by the "Long Telegram" this U.S. policy was adopted by both Republicans and Democrats to stop the spread of communism.
What was "Containment?"
The population "bubble" created after WWII created this now infamous generation.
Who were the Baby Boomers?
What is non-violence?
The first atomic bomb ever dropped was nicknamed "Fat Man" and detonated over this city.
What was Hiroshima?
Roosevelt's program allowing our allies to use U.S. bases and "rent" military equipment.
What was the Lend-Lease Act?
He was a Senator that claimed he had a list of 200 State Department employees that were communists and terrorized a generation of Americans.
Who was Joseph McCarthy?
Most new homes in the U.S. after the war were built here.
What are suburbs?
This SCOTUS case finally overruled Plessy and the idea that separate was NOT equal.
What was Brown v. Board of Ed?
What was Kristallnacht?
Who was Rosie the Riveter?
The Cuban Missile Crisis ended when the Soviets withdrew their missiles from Cuba and we secretly removed ours from this country.
What was Turkey?
The idea that if both the U.S. and USSR shot nukes at each other we all would die.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 made discrimination illegal in this type of space? It also made hiring discrimination illegal in a separate Title.
What are "public accommodations?"
This was the language used by the famous "code-talkers" to confuse the Japanese.
What is Navajo?
The SCOTUS case that ruled that Japanese internment (even of US Citizens) was constitutional during a time of war.
What was Korematsu v. United States?
He coined the phrase "iron curtain" to describe the Soviet satellite states along the western border of the USSR.
Who was Winston Churchill?
Nicknamed "Moscow Maggie" by her detractors this Maine Republican made a "Declaration of Conscience" against the abuses of the Red Scare.
Who was Margaret Chase Smith?
He was the lawyer that argued most of the civil rights cases for the NAACP and later the first black Justice of the SCOTUS.
Who was Thurgood Marshall?
The U.S. landed troops on two of the five beaches in Normandy on D-Day - these were their codenames.
What are "Utah" and "Omaha?"
He said: "I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds." after watching the Trinity nuclear test.
Who was J. Robert Oppenheimer?
This is the term given to a country that is used by a stronger country to fight a war that the bigger country does not want to fully commit to. (Korea and Vietnam being examples)
What is a proxy?
This was the post-war financial assistance plan that sent money to Europe to help rebuild and stop the possible influence of the USSR.
What was the Marshall Plan?
The televised beating of unarmed black marchers on THIS BRIDGE between Selma and Montgomery helped lead to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
What is the Edmund Pettis Bridge?