Vocabulary
A US government agency responsible for science relating to air and space
What is NASA?
This conflict began in 1950 and ended in a stalemate at the 38th parallel line that still stands to this day.
What is the Korean War?
This increased birth rate following WWII led to this generation born from the 40s to the 60s.
What is the baby boom?
This Civil Rights figure believed in nonviolent protests.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
This program was introduced to help provide basic health care to the elderly.
What is Medicare?
Emerged as a militant branch of the Black Power movement, advocating for armed self-defense against police brutality and promoting Black nationalism and socialism
What is Black Panther?
13-day standoff in October, between U.S and Soviet proxy, brought the world on the brink of a nuclear war.
What was the Cuban missile crisis?
This act provided federal funding to create a nationwide system of interstate and defense highways.
What is the Federal Highway Act of 1956?
This ideology emphasized the unique history and culture of African Americans and influenced the Civil Rights movement as a whole.
What is Black Power?
This president passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
a set of domestic programs initiated by President Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1960s, aimed at addressing poverty, racial injustice, and other social problems in the United States
What is Great Society?
A failed attempt by the US to overthrow the socialist government of Fidel Castro in Cuba.
What was the Bay of Pigs?
This Cold War related industry fueled job growth and tech development in the US.
What is the defense industry?
This event was a major turning point for the LGBT community and sparked a collective identity.
What was the Stonewall Riot?
This agency was created to oversee environmental monitoring and cleanup programs.
What is the Environmental Projection Agency?
A classified Department of Defense study, conducted during the Vietnam War, which detailed the U.S. involvement in the conflict of the war.
What are the Pentagon Papers?
This surprise track by the Vietcong stunned the US Military command in South Vietnam, killing 1600 US troops and 40000 North Vietnam/Vietcong troops.
What is the Tet Offensive?
This federal agency coordinated many programs of the War on Poverty.
What is the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO)?
This Supreme Court case challenged the separate but equal rule, arguing that segregating black children from white schools was not equal treatment.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
This domestic agenda fronted by JFK advocated higher minimum wage, greater federal aid, increased Social Security benefits, and more.
What is the New Frontier?
A US law that provided veterans of World War II with benefits like educational support, unemployment insurance, and low-cost loans for housing and business ventures
What is GI Bill?
This predicament happened when negotiations over the building of Aswan High Dam failed, Egyptian president Gamal Nasser turned to Soviet aid, forcing U.S-joint Intervention.
What was the Suez Crisis?
Originating in this town in New York, a style of housing was made where each neighborhood had identical homes packed tightly together and laid the groundwork for suburban cities.
What is Levittown, New York?
This event occurred when nine young African American children were being harassed on their way to school, so Eisenhower sent in US troops to escort them.
What is the Crisis in Little Rock?
This 1961 government volunteer program sent Americans abroad to assist with development and diplomacy.
What is the Peace Corps?