Cold War
The opposing superpower against the United States who competed with them in the arms and Space races.
What was the Soviet Union?
The U.S. aided this portion of Vietnam.
What is South Vietnam?
Main leader o the Civil Rights movement who gave the famous "I have a Dream" speech.
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?
The largest U.S. infrastructure program that built roads throughout the country to help with travel. Dwight D. Eisenhower passed it.
What is the Interstate Highway Act?
November 22, 1963
What is the JFK Assassination?
The U.S. supported the South and the Soviet Union supported the North in this proxy war.
What is the Korean War?
U.S. foreign policy implemented in order to stop communism throughout the middle east and Europe.
What is containment?
Formal protests in which blacks would stay at the counters of segregated sections of public areas.
What are sit-ins?
Affordable homes built by William Levitt that influenced new standards of living after World War 2.
What are suburbs?
April 17, 1961 - April 19, 1961
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
The U.S. program implemented in order to give support for countries in Western Europe affected by communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
Lyndon B. Johnson first sent troops into Vietnam following this incident involving Vietnamese conflict off the coast of Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin?
Black political party made in order to get change though violence.
What is the Black Panther Party?
Protest at a college against the Vietnam War that led to the deaths of 4 college students after the National Guard was sent in.
What is the Kent State Massacre?
July 2, 1964
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Name of the senator who accused people, mainly in the state department, of being communists with no evidence to back up the accusations.
Who was Joseph McCarthy?
A major attack by the north Vietcong on the South Vietnamese towns and cities.
What was the Tet Offensive?
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Book written that challenged women's traditional roles as homemaker and housewives.
What is the The Feminine Mystique?
November 4, 1979 to January 20, 1981
What is the Iranian Hostage Crisis?
Name of the scientist who was ordered to develop the first atomic bomb in the Manhattan Project. This provides context for arms race during the Cold War
Who was J. Robert Oppenheimer?
Communist leader of North Vietnam that led a campaign to make Vietnam independent. They eventually made Vietnam's biggest city named after him.
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
A group of students enrolled in a white school on the basis of being black.
Who were the Little Rock Nine?
A book written in order to voice the environmental concerns of people who believe that the government neglected.
What is Silent Spring?
August 15, 1969 to August 18, 1969 (think counterculture)
What is Woodstock?