Cold War Begins
Term that means to try to stop the spread of communism?
Containment
What caused the U.S. and the United Nations enter the Korean War?
North Korea invaded South Korea
Ho Chi Minh becomes the communist leader of what Southeastern Nation?
Vietnam
Court case that said that schools should be desegregated in 1954?
Brown v. Board of Education
Second Red Scare- Event in the 1950s?
McCarthyism
Policy in which 400 million was sent to Greece and Turkey to stop communism, and the proclamation of helping others resisting communism
Truman Doctrine
Who led the American forces in Korea?
Douglas MacArthur
Fidel Castro becomes the communist leader of what country in 1959 and alarms the United States?
Cuba
Rosa Parks not giving up her bus seat led to this famous event?
Montgomery Bus boycotts
explosion of the birth of children between 1945 and 1960 is called?
Baby Boom
Sent 13 billion dollars to Western Europe, stabilized the area
Marshall Plan
What country entered the Korean War to help North Korea?
China
Event in 1962 where the U.S. almost goes to war with Soviet Union, we found missiles pointed at U.S.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Act in 1964 that did away with segregated public facilities?
Civil Rights Act
President that set up the Interstate Highway System?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military alliance between U.S., Canada and 10 European countries that agreed military aid to each other
NATO
Who dismissed Douglas MacArthur for insubordination?
Harry Truman
Event in which America tries to overthrow Fidel Castro in Cuba by invading with exiles and it was a disaster?
Bay of Pigs
Act of 1965 that gave the federal government right to supervise voting registration?
Voting Rights Act
Part of the United Nations that can veto legislation- Great Britian, U.S., France, China and Russia are permanent members?
Security Council
Where did MacArthur invade in Korea to gain back the southern portion of South Korea, a seaport halfway up the western coast
Inchon
A war with a limited objective short of total victory is called?
limited War
Name of couple that was executed for giving the Soviets atomic bomb secrets?
Rosenbergs
Organization started in 1909 to help African Americans receive their civil liberties?
NAACP
Part of the United Nations that consists of delegates from all member nations and provides a forum in which nations can express their ideas.
General Assembly
Where did the United States promise to take out missiles in return for taking missiles out of Cuba?
Turkey