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WWII
Cold War: 1945-1963
Civil Rights Mvmt
Vietnam
Nixon through Reagan
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The US decided to pass these laws after to keep Britain armed after it miraculously held out against the German blitzkrieg but was lacking the gold for "cash and carry".
What are the Lend-Lease Acts
100
Event that pushed the US and the USSR to the "brink" of nuclear war in October 1962.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis
100
A major victory in the Civil Rights movement occurred when the Supreme Court overturned the ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson with their decision in this landmark case.
What is Brown v. Board of Education
100
Name given to President Johnson's decision to send more combat troops to Vietnam from 1964-1968.
What is "escalation"
100
Term for Reagan's policies of lowered income taxes, decreased gov't spending (except for defense), and a tighter money supply to lower inflation.
What is "Reaganomics"
200
In this "last meeting" between Churchill, Stalin, and FDR, the Big Three agreed to allow Stalin to keep all territory in E. Europe as a "buffer" against future German aggression in exchange for his promise to enter the war against Japan.
What is the Yalta Conference
200
This President was criticized for "losing China" to communism in the late 1940s; it was a main reason why he took such an interest in "containing" communism in the Korean War.
Who is Harry Truman
200
1960: Students staged "sit-ins" for the first time in this North Carolina city to protest racial segregation in public places.
What is Greensboro
200
This Congressional declaration gave the President the power to take "all necessary measures to repel any attack against the forces of the United States [in Vietnam]."
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
200
The revelation of this "weapons-for-hostages" deal threatened to bring down the Reagan administration in the mid-1980s but the President survived with much of his popularity intact.
What is the Iran-Contra Scandal
300
In 1940, during one of his fireside chats, FDR referred to America by this nickname which demonstrated our ideological and military support for our Allies who were fighting against Hitler but did not directly involve us in the war...yet.
What is the "Arsenal of Democracy"
300
This was enacted to provide billions in much-needed financial relief to war-torn Europe...but the cost was friendship and loyalty to the US in helping contain Communism.
What is the Marshall Plan
300
As a result of his role in organizing/leading the Montgomery Bus Boycotts, he established himself as the preeminent figure in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and eventually the entire movement itself.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
300
This 1968 joint NLF-NVA attack on over 100 cities in South Vietnam was a military failure but a psychological victory as both Americans and South Vietnamese questioned the ability of American forces to win the war.
What is the Tet Offensive
300
The combination of rising prices, low economic output and skyrocketing unemployment led to this unenviable economic situation for President Carter in 1979.
What is "stagflation"
400
African-Americans, spurred by leaders such as A. Philip Randolph, waged this campaign which led to Executive Order 8802 which banned discrimination in the defense industry and government.
What is the Double-V Campaign
400
President Eisenhower signed off on many CIA covert operations throughout his Presidency, including this one to usurp suspected democratically-elected Communist sympathizer Mohammad Mossadegh from power in this middle eastern nation.
What is Iran
400
By 1968, this sect was attempting to replace the traditional "share America" message of the Civil Rights movement with a "Black is Beautiful" and overall pride in one's racial background message.
What is the Black Power Movement
400
Nixon's "secret plan" to end the war was mainly the plan to gradually withdraw US forces and hand over combat duties to well-trained-US equipped S. Vietnamese troops.
What is "Vietnamization"
400
Nixon's idea to "get on friendly terms" with the People's Republic of China to weaken their alliance with the USSR and get them to negotiate with the US became known as this strategy.
What is "playing the 'China Card'"
500
This 1943 meeting between Churchill and FDR was the genesis for "unconditional surrender" of Germany and Japan.
What is the Casablanca Conference.
500
Among other things, this executive order established the National Security Council (NSC) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the Truman Administration.
What is the National Security Act (1947)
500
The objective of registering as many African-American voters as possible in segregated Mississippi between June-August of 1964 became known as this.
What is "Freedom Summer"
500
The decision to send ground forces into this declared "neutral" nation (but a known sanctuary for NVA-NLF forces) caused a storm of violent protests and several deaths on US college campuses.
What is Cambodia
500
This 1979 Carter speech that "scolded" the American people for losing hope in their democratic principles/institutions was dubbed this name by the press (meaning "a general sick, uncomfortable feeling")
What is the "national malaise" speech