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Early Cold War
Vietnam War & Protests
Important People/Groups
Civil Rights
Rights & Power Movements
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This describes the US's Cold War strategy, including giving money to any country battling communism 

What is the Truman Doctrine/containment policy?

100
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?
100

The leader of the SCLC during the 1950s and 1960s

Who is Martin Luther King, Jr. ?

100
This non-violent protest started when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott
100

The American Indian Movement's first public protest.

What is the occupation of Alcatraz?

200
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?
200

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?
200

Main spokesperson for the Nation of Islam who is also seen as one of the fathers of the Black Power Movement.

Who is Malcolm X?

200

This Supreme Court case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and desegregated public schools nationwide.

What is Brown v. Board of Education?

200

Leader/co-founder of the United Farm Workers with Dolores Huerta.

Who is Cesar Chavez?

300
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?
300
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?
300
Group of countries that controls and sets oil production and prices
Who is OPEC?
300
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?
300

LBJ's collection of legislation to battle the "War on Poverty"

What is the Great Society?

400

Wisconsin Senator who was determined to find communist infiltrators in government and media, fueling the Red Scae

Who is Joseph McCarthy

400

The battle that so shocked the American public that Walter Cronkite declared the war a "stalemate and quagmire"

Tet offensive

400

Biologist who wrote "Silent Spring", calling attention to the dangers of pesticides.

Who is Rachel Carson?

400

This act guaranteed and gave enforcement power to the 15 Amendment.

What is the Voting Rights Act?

400
The name of the book written by Betty Friedan that launched the 1970s Feminist Movement.

What is the Feminine Mystique?

500
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?
500

Country that Vietnam fought a war of colonial independence against, before the US got involved

France
500
Head of the NAACP's legal team on Brown v. Board, and future SCOTUS justice

Who is Thurgood Marshall?

500

The two founding goals of the Black Panther Party.

What is community empowerment and self defense?

500

FBI program to infiltrate and destroy many of the civil rights groups. 

What is COINTELPRO?