Cold War
an intense effort to root out Communists from every corner of American society by any means necessary—even if those means violated traditional American values.
McCarthyism
This proxy war was from 1950 to 1953.
Korean War
Otherwise known as Servicemen’s Readjustment Act- helped veterans continue their education at government expense and receive low interest government backed loans
GI Bill
The name of the President that ended WWII in the Pacific theatre.
Who is Harry Truman?
This resolution authorized Johnson (essentially a "blank check") to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate from an incident in Vietnam in which two US destroyers were fired upon.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin?
Supreme Court decision that declared racially segregated public schools inherently unconstitutional.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
What did the Southern Manifesto argue against?
Largest migration pattern in the late twentieth century (moving out of cities)
Suburbanization
a CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. The attack was an utter failure.
Bay of Pigs (1961)
This Supreme Court case legalized abortion in the United States
a law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African American suffrage. Under the law, hundreds of thousands of African Americans were registered, and the number of African American elected officials increased dramatically.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
1964 presidential nominee for the Republican party, known for extreme conservatism.
Barry Goldwater
Americans began to fear that communists were trying to take over US government.
Red Scare
Soviet forces blockaded railroad and water access to Allied-controlled areas of Berlin. The United States and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany.
Berlin Airlift (1948)
International organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace and cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations.
United Nations
Under this bill, hotels, restaurants, and employers could not discriminate based on race and schools could not be segregated.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The name given to the generation of children born to the families of returning WW2 veterans between 1945 and 1960.
Baby boomers
Containment
The idea that if a nation falls under communist control, nearby nations will also fall under communist control.
Domino theory
Why did Eisenhower create the international highway system in the 1950s?
National Defense
Which event included an antiwar demonstration in which four students were killed by members of the National Guard?
Kent State Massacre (1970)
President Jimmy Carter's term in office was plagued by which foreign policy issue?
The Iran Hostage Crisis