Cold War Origins
This 1947 policy pledged U.S. support to countries resisting communism.
What is The Truman Doctrine?
This term describes accusing people of disloyalty without evidence.
What is McCarthyism?
This leader advocated nonviolent resistance and led major protests.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This event led to President Nixon’s resignation in 1974.
What is the Watergate Scandal?
This theory justified U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
What is the Domino Theory?
This program provided economic aid to rebuild Western Europe after WWII.
What is The Marshall Plan
Which industry was famously targeted by investigations leading to the "Hollywood Ten"?
What is the Film/Entertainment Industry?
This leader promoted Black nationalism and criticized integration.
Who is Malcolm X?
This term describes young people rejecting traditional values in the 1960s.
What is counter culture?
Three reasons that explains why the U.S. ultimately withdrew from Vietnam.
What is a combination of military stalemate, public opposition, and high costs?
This 1949 alliance was formed as a collective defense against the Soviet Union.
What is NATO?
This event effectively ended McCarthyism in late 1954.
What is The Army-McCarthy Hearings?
This 1954 case ended legal segregation in public schools.
What is Brown V. Board of Education?
This 1970 event reflected growing environmental activism in the U.S.
What is Earth Day?
This policy reduced U.S. troops while strengthening South Vietnam.
What is Vietnamization?
The division of this city symbolized Cold War tensions and led to an airlift in 1948.
What is Berlin?
This Committee investigated alleged communist influence in Hollywood.
What is HUAC?
This group used nonviolent direct action, including sit-ins and Freedom Rides.
What is The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee? (SNCC)
This president escalated U.S. involvement in Vietnam after the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This protest tragedy resulted in four student deaths in 1970.
What is the Kent State Shooting?
This conflict marked the first major “hot war” of the Cold War.
What is The Korean War?
This couple was executed for passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
Who are Ethel and Julius Rosenberg?
What two acts signed by Johnson in 1964 and 1965 targeted discrimination?
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting rights act of 1965
This publication of articles increased public distrust in government.
What are the Pentagon Papers?
This act limited presidential involvement in future conflicts after the Vietnam War
What is the War Powers Act?