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Early Cold War
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Rights & Power Movements
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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?
100

Event in 1968 that significantly weakened American public support for the Vietnam War.

What is the Tet Offensive?

100
The leader of non-violent protest and civil disobedience during the Civil Rights Movement.
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 president issued Executive Order 9981 to desegregate the armed forces.

Who is Harry Truman?

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

Ran for president and, while unsuccessful, demonstrated the success of 1970s conservatism.

Who is Barry Goldwater?

200

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

What is Brown v. Board of Education?

200

Co-founded 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

Legislation that outlawed segregation in public places and employment.

What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

300
LBJ's plan to battle the "War on Poverty"
What is the Great Society?
400

Group responsible for investigating suspected communists in the U.S.

What is the House Un-American Activities Committee?

400
Name of the large student organization which protested America's involvement in Vietnam.
What is the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)?
400

Organization that led legal challenges against systemic racism during the mid-20th century.

What is the NAACP?

400

Did not believe that there was enough civil rights success with nonviolent tactics.

What is the Black Power movement?

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

What is the Feminine Mystique?

500

Represented postwar conformity through abstract paintings.

Who is Jackson Pollock?

500
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?
500

Guatemalan president overthrown during a US-backed operaion.

Who is President Jacobo Arbenz?

500

Pivotal student-led organization in the Civil Rights Movement

Who is the SNCC?

500
Name of the book published by Rachel Carson about the dangers of DDT and other pesticides. It launches the "Green Movement."
Who is Rachel Carson?