Early Cold War
This gave money to any country battling communism although it starts with $400 million in aid to Turkey and Greece.
Truman Doctrine
Name of the massacre in which American soldiers killed unarmed Vietnamese civilians in 1968 - it changes the minds of many Americans.
My Lai Massacre
The leader of non-violent protest and civil disobedience during the Civil Rights Movement.
Martin Luther King, Jr
This non-violent protest started when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Name of a prominent native American Movement
AIM (American Indian Movement)
This is the closest the US and Soviet Union came to nuclear war, and included a US blockade of Soviet ships.
Cuban Missile Crisis
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.
Gulf of Tonkin
Main spokesperson for the Nation of Islam who is also seen as the father of the Black Power Movement.
Malcolm X
This Supreme Court case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and desegregated public schools nationwide.
Brown v. Board of Education
Leader of the "Brown Movement" who co-founded the United Farm Workers with Dolores Huerta.
Cesar Chavez
This gave aid to Western European countries after WWII as a way to recover economically but mostly to sustain capitalism and democracy.
Marshall Plan
This event included a Vietnam War student protest on a college campus in which the police mistakenly shot into the crowd, killing 4 college students.
Kent State
Group of countries that controls and sets oil production and prices, famously embargoed America's oil supply due to their role in the Yom Kippur War.
OPEC
These were done by black and white students who sat in the "white section" of segregated restaurants as a form of non-violent protest.
lunch-counter sit-ins
LBJ's plan to battle the "War on Poverty"
Great Society
In his farewell speech, Eisenhower warned against this symbiotic relationship between a nation's military, economy, and politics.
Military Industrial Complex
Name of the large student organization which protested America's involvement in Vietnam.
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)?
The Alabama governor who famously stated "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." Separated from the democratic party to run as an independent presidential candidate in the 1968 election.
George Wallace
Passed by LBJ, officially outlawed public segregation
1964 Civil Rights Act
The name of the book written by Betty Friedan that launched the 1970s Feminist Movement.
Feminine Mystique
top secret paper stressed the urgency of the growing Cold War to President Truman in 1950 and was essential in America's decision to enter the Cold War.
NSC-68
This reversed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and limits the president's ability to deploy military forces without the approval of Congress.
War Powers Act
The woman who headed the "Stop ERA" movement, not wanting an equal rights amendment for women, believing it would put women in combat and break traditional roles of the family.
Phyllis Schlafly
This event, coordinated by SNCC, was an effort to help African Americans register to vote in Mississippi. It also included the murder of 3 SNCC members by KKK members.
Freedom Summer
White middle-class youths, called hippies. New Left, against Vietnam War, turned back on America because they believed in a society based on peace and love. rock'n'roll, colorful clothes, and the use of drugs, lived in large groups.
counterculture