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?
This committee gained publicity during the 1950s for its investigation of alleged communist sympathizers.
House Un-American Activities Committee
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 was the general fired by President Truman for encouraging an attack on China during the Korean War.
Douglas MacArthur
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 senator used unsupported accusations about communists in government and to discredit the Truman administration
Joseph McCarthy
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?
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 Resolution
This program was devised by Truman in 1947 requiring federal employees to swear oaths of allegiance to the United States.
Federal Employee Loyalty Program
The Alabama governor who famously stated "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." Also ran for President in 1968 (lost).
Who is George Wallace?
Her book "The Feminine Mystique" sparked a new consciousness among suburban women and helped launch the second-wave feminist movement.
Betty Freidan
The name of the book written by Betty Friedan that launched the 1970s Feminist Movement.
What is the Feminine Mystique?
This 1950s military conflict emphasized the American Cold War policies of containment and domino theory.
What is the Korean War
Whereas the Red Scare of the 1950s was more widespread and focused on federal employees, Hollywood, and the military, the first Red Scare of the 1920s mainly focused on these groups of people.
Who were immigrants and union members
This organization was formed during the Second Wave Feminist Movement of the 1960s to address gender discrimination.
What was the National Organization for Women
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.