1950's Culture
This invention sparked consumer culture in the 1950s
What is television?
This group during the Civil Rights Movement allowed members to use all necessary means to defend and provide for their community?
What is the Black Panthers?
The overall strategy of the US during the Cold War
What is containment?
The policy of reducing the number of American soldiers in Vietnam
What is Vietnamization?
This book played a role in changing attitudes about traditional gender roles in America society
What is the Feminine Mystique?
This group of people was known for speaking out against the social norms of society
An organization formed in 1960 to coordinate sit-ins and other protests and to give young blacks a larger role in the civil rights movement.
This event showed the US was not winning the Vietnam War
What is the Tet Offensive?
LBJ's plan for increased domestic spending on anti-poverty & anti-racism programs
What is the "Great Society"?
Nixon's policy of relaxing tensions with the USSR
What is Detenté?
Mass produced communities that were created in the suburbs
What is a Levittown?
This lawyer was known for winning the Brown v. Board of Education supreme court case.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
The term used to describe the invisible line that separated communist Eastern Europe from democratic Western Europe
What is the Iron Curtain?
List off 2 events that created a credibility gap in society.
What is the Watergate Scandal, the Pentagon Papers, or the Vietnam War?
The controversial event that led to the US directly intervening in Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin?
The largest public works project during Eisenhower's administration presidency
What is the Interstate Highway Act?
This law banned all literacy tests that kept many African Americans from voting.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Provides aide to countries that are currently fighting communism (AKA Greece and Turkey)
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This provided low-cost medical insurance to people over 65
What is Medicare?
This organization attempts to reduce air and water pollution and protect the environment
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
List off 2 reasons as to why Americans started to migrate to the Sun Belt.
What is jobs, air conditioning, and suburban growth?
It prohibited discrimination based on race, religion, gender, and national origin and gave the government the power to enforce the bill
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This political leader encouraged the widespread fear of Communism
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
Those in support of Nixon and the war and who did not express their opinions publicly like the protesters
What is the silent majority?
"You have the right to remain silent" comes from this Supreme Court case
What is Miranda v. Arizona?