Vocabulary
What is Containment?
The act or process of keeping something within certain limits, such as stopping the spread of communism during the Cold War.
What does the term "Cold war" mean?
What was life like in the soviet union?
Life in the soviet union was a life without freedom. Anyone who disagreed with the govt could be arrested, jailed, or killed.
Different: FBI has law enforcement, and can investigate "US persons".
CIA: only gathers and analyzes info from countries.
BOTH: can gather intelligence
What types of fighting defined the Vietnam war?
Jungle warfare- airstrikes, chemical weapons
Active Internationalism
Opposite of isolationism- the policy of working with other nations
What was the Truman Doctrine?
The truman doctrine was the US policy to support free peoples (countries) who were fighting against becoming communist around the world.
What was the Berlin Airlift?
Stalin ordered all the roads and routes to be shut down in attempt to control west berlin. Instead, the US and Britain supplied West Berlin through airlifts.
How did Kennedy die?
He was assassinated by lee harvey oswald.
What was the civil rights movement?
The civil rights movement was the effort by Black Americans to win equality and guarantee their constitutional rights.
Counterculture
A culture that has different values than the established society or main culture
What countries are in the first world?
What was the Iron Curtain?
The divide between the Soviet sphere of influence and western democracies
What was the Cuban Missile crisis?
US spy planes detected soviet missile sites in Cuba; Kennedy ordered a blockade of Cuba and demanded that the Soviets remove the missiles.
What events began to break down the barriers to civil rights in the late 1940s and early 1950s?
Jackie Robinson- MLB
Truman- Integrated US military,
Supreme Court- Declared public schools must be integrated via Brown V board
Plaintiff
A person who begins a legal action
What countries were in the second world?
Eastern Europe: Soviet bloc
Stalin ordered the assassination of their non-communist leaders
how did the legacy of president Kennedy continue?
President lyndon Johnson helped continue kennedys initiatives to build civil rights and great society programs- also landed a man on the moon!
Who were the freedom riders?
Groups of Black and white civil rights activists rode buses together in the South. They were beaten, and one bus was firebombed.
Detente
What is an example of detente?
a policy that relaxes tensions between nations.
What was the Marshall Plan? How did it benefit the US economy?
Europeans used money obtained through the Marshall Plan to purchase food tools and farming equipment from American businesses. This also provided jobs for Americans.
What was the purpose of the berlin wall?
To serve as a barrier to keep people of the East berlin from escaping to the west
1949. it began because, during the Cold War, each country wanted to have more nuclear weapons than the others.
Why did Malcolm X believe that MLK's effort would fail?
M. X believed that there were not enough people to think there was a problem.