Important People
An United States Senator who believed there were communist spies working for the United States Government.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
This is why John F. Kennedy did not finish his Presidential Term.
What is his assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald?
The metaphor for the separation between communist and noncommunist countries in Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
The war fought over the spread of communism between communist N. Korea and non-communist S. Korea; U.S. leaders thought that the Soviet Union had helped plan the attack.
What is the Korean War?
Mrs. Turley's favorite drink.
What is Dr. Pepper?
President that feared a nuclear attack from the Soviet Union and ordered a blockade around Cuba.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This was built to keep the people of East Berlin from fleeing to West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Wall?
Ordinary people and businesses control the production of goods and services.
What is capitalism?
The war that was not supported by many Americans. Many Americans started demonstrations and protests for the soldiers to be brought back home.
What is the Vietnam War?
This is Mrs. Turley's first name.
Who is Ainsley.
The president who took over after Franklin D. Roosevelt's death and who tried to stop the spread of communism.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
This event led to major distrust of the United States Federal Government and a Presidential resignation.
What is the Watergate Scandal?
The government controls production and owns the nation's natural and capital resources.
What is communism?
When the U.S. used planes to drop food and supplies to help the people of West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
Mrs. Turley's husbands name.
What is Trevon?
The President of the United States that became President after JFK was assassinated.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
Passed in 1964, it outlawed discrimination based on race, religion, ethnicity, and gender.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
A policy written by President Truman about containing communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
Khrushchev placed missiles in Cuba after being behind in the arms race. The Soviet Union removes them only when the U.S. promises not to invade Cuba. This became known as the __________________.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This is what Mrs. Turley is doing over Spring Break.
What is moving to Queen Creek and visiting Nashville?
The U.S. president who promised to bring the troops home from Vietnam; he was elected in 1968.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This treaty stated countries without nuclear weapon tech are not allowed to develop nuclear weapons.
What is the Non Proliferation Treaty?
An organization set up for nations to trade peacefully with one another and to help stop the spread of communism throughout the world.
What is NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
This event allowed LBJ to send troops to Vietnam, although many historians believe it to be fabricated.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin?
These are the names of all of Mrs. Turley's siblings.
Who are: Grant, Bryant, Blake, Ivy, and Grayson?