Vocab
The practice of making false accusations of being communist based on rumor or guilt by association.
What is McCarthyism?
This banned the use of poll taxes.
What is the 24th Amendment?
A security pact between Western Europe and the US to protect against communism.
What is NATO?
This event occured in response to Soviet deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This signalled the start of the desegregation in schools movement in the US.
What is the Moton School Walkout?
The movement of white Americans from urban areas to suburbs in response to increasing racial diversity.
What is White Flight?
This banned discrimination in all public spaces in the US.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
A civil rights organization that promoted non-violence and organized the Montogmery Bus Boycotts.
What is the SCLC?
This event is closely connected to the counterculture and anti-war movement in the US during the Cold War.
What is the Kent State University Shooting?
These marches were intended to advocate for voting rights for African Americans.
What are the Selma to Montgomery Marches?
The belief that if one country fell to communism, then their neighbors were more likely to do so as well.
What is the Domino Theory?
A formal statement of intention by the US to help any country threatened by communist aggression.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
A civil rights organization that participated in sit-ins, freedom rides, and voter registration in the South.
What is the SNCC?
This was an attempt to overthrow the communist government (Fidel Castro) in Cuba by the US.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
This decision was intended to draw attention to violence on Blacks in the South.
What is Emmett Till's Open Casket Funeral?
The threat to use weapons of mass destruction by two opposing sides knowing it would destroy both.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)?
This protected the right to vote by banning literacy tests.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
A security pact created in response to NATO and used by the USSR to put down rebellions in satellite states.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This proxy war ended in the country remaining divided with the demilitarized zone still in effect today.
What is the Korean War?
These rides intended to promote nonviolent protests against racial segregation of public facilities.
What are the Freedom Rides?
A political strategy aimed at preventing the desegregation of public schools.
What is Massive Resistance?
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
A civil rights organization, still around today, that challenges segregation and discrimination in courts.
What is the NAACP?
This proxy war caused mass protests in the US due to it being televised and ended with the country being one communist nation.
What is the Vietnam War?
This event is important as it demonstrated the effectiveness of nonviolent protests during the Civil Rights Movement.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?