Early Cold War
International organization started after WWII to help prevent future global wars
United Nations (UN)
Former general in WWII who helped plan D-Day. He was president for most of the 1950s.
Dwight D Eisenhower
President from 1960-1963, led the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis and committed to putting a man on the moon before the decade was over
John F Kennedy
American President through most of the 1980s, gave the Berlin Wall Speech and increased military spending to intimidate the Soviets
Ronald Reagan
This person refused to get up from their bus seat, leading to the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks
President Harry Truman did what to the US Armed Forces in 1948 before the Korean War
Integration of US Military
America became involved in this war in 1950. Sometimes called the Forgotten War. A communist country invaded its neighbor to try and turn them communist.
Korean War
American participation in this war saw major backlash at home and eventually led to a loss because the country became fully Communist
Vietnam War
The Soviet Union got involved in a war in this country in the 1980s, straining their resources and costing them lots of money
Afghanistan
Act passed in 1965 that outlawed "literacy" tests for voting which were used to disenfranchise African-American Voters
American plan to help rebuild Western Europe after World War II ended
Marshall Plan
The increase in the production of these weapons in the 1950s saw fears grow of the Soviet Union and increased the stakes for a potential war
Nuclear Weapons
The Soviets/East Germany began building this in the 1960s to separate a city between and communist side and free market democratic side
Berlin Wall
Term used to describe the easing of tensions between the US and Soviet Union/China beginning in the mid to late 1970s
Detente
Act passed in 1964 that outlawed discrimination by businesses and in public accomodations
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Truman Doctrine
Led by a US Senator, this wave of Anti-Communist sentiment saw hundreds of government officials and thousands around the country accused of being Communist with little to no evidence.
McCarthyism
Crisis in 1962 where the US and Soviet Union got as close as they ever did to a nuclear war
Cuban Missile Crisis
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 signaled what towards the end of the Cold War
End of Communism in Europe/Fall of Soviet Union
Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech at this event
March on Washington
At the end of WWII the US and its allies controlled Germany by doing what?
Broke Germany into four occupation zones.
This figure led a communist revolution in Cuba in the late 1950s
Fidel Castro
This event near Vietnam was used as a catalyst for Lyndon B Johnson to increase the President's ability to send troops to places where they saw threats to America
Gulf of Tonkin Incident/Resolution
Soviet Policy of opening up their society more and more during the 1980s. Started by Mikhail Gorbachev
Glasnost
Document where MLK laid out his vision of the Civil Rights Movement and addressed those who disagreed with his vision
Letter from a Birmingham Jail