Early Cold War
This gave money to any country battling communism although it starts with $400 million in aid to Turkey and Greece.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
Name of the massacre in which American soldiers killed unarmed Vietnamese civilians in 1968 - it changes the minds of many Americans.
What is the My Lai Massacre?
The leader of non-violent protest and civil disobedience during the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr. ?
This non-violent protest started when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Name of Native American civil rights group
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.
What is the 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.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin?
Main spokesperson for the Nation of Islam who is also seen as the father of the Black Power Movement.
Who is Malcolm X?
This Supreme Court case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and desegregated public schools nationwide.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Leader of the "Brown Movement" who co-founded the United Farm Workers with Dolores Huerta.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
This gave aid to Western European countries after WWII as a way to recover economically but mostly to sustain capitalism and democracy.
What is the 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.
What is Kent State?
Group of countries that controls and sets oil production and prices
Who is 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.
What are lunch-counter sit-ins?
LBJ's plan to battle the "War on Poverty"
What is the Great Society?
President Eisenhower's policy of reducing the size of the U.S. army, developing tactile nuclear
weapons, and building strategic air power to employ nuclear weapons
New Look Policy
Name of the large student organization which protested America's involvement in Vietnam.
What is the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)?
The Alabama governor who famously stated "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." Also ran for President in 1968 (lost).
Who is George Wallace?
Nationwide reaction in more than 100 cities to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Race Riots (1968)
The name of the book written by Betty Friedan that launched the 1970s Feminist Movement.
What is the Feminine Mystique?
This 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.
What is NSC-68 (OR) Long Telegram
This reversed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and limits the president's ability to deploy military forces without the approval of Congress.
What is the 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.
Who is 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.
What is Freedom Summer?
Book written by Rachel Carson, a Marine biologist who warned of the misuse of pesticides and
their negative affects on the environment. The book is credited with starting the modern
environmental movement.
Silent Spring - 1962.