Early Cold War
Defensive military alliance forged between Western European countries and the United States.
What is NATO?
Wisconsin Senator that caused fear and paranoia within the United States and its government. Used groundless communist accusations to gain political power.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
Conflict in which the country involved remained divided by the end of the war (despite United States involvement).
What is the Korean War?
The separation of American people based on race
What is segregation?
Defensive military alliance forged between the Eastern Bloc and Soviet Russia
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Soviet Union launched this satellite into space, igniting the space race
What is sputnik?
Theory that countries throughout Asia would fall one by one to communism if the United States did not get involved.
What is the Domino Theory?
Legislation passed in 1965 that outlawed poll taxes and literacy tests
What is the Voting Rights Act?
Foreign policy of a United States President stating that the United States would do anything within its power to stop the spread of communism
What is the Truman Doctrine?
Lyndon B. Johnson's vision for the United States. A long list of reforms intended to enhance quality of living in the United States. This includes changes in the spheres of education, environment, civil rights, work force, living standards etc.
What is the Great Society?
War in which the affected country ended up becoming united under Communism (despite American involvement).
What is the Vietnam War?
9 black students decided to exercise their right to desegregated public schools by attending Central High School?
What is Little Rock?
United States paid 13 billion dollars to European countries for WWII reparations. USA did this to flex and show the appeal of democracy and capitalism as opposed to communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
Wall constructed around this major European city in order to stop people from fleeing the surrounding communist controlled areas.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This Vietnamese attack on 2 US Navy ships led to the expansion of Presidential wartime powers.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin?
Legislation passed in 1964 that eliminated segregation from public spaces
What is the Civil Rights Act?
USSR decided to blockade West Berlin which caused the USA and Great Britain to send 270,000 planes to West Berlin to drop supplies and food to the people living in that city.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
Chaotic period of the Cold War in which missiles were discovered in Cuba and JFK responded by threatening the USSR and placing a blockade on Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
United States President who in 1964 led the United States into much larger involvement in the Vietnam War.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
Civil Rights leader that advocated for civil disobedience and peaceful coexistence between all races
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?