Cold War Policy
The United States plan to help any group fighting against Communism anywhere in the world
What is the Truman Doctrine
War started when the Northern (Communist gov) invaded the Southern Democracy and we went to save it
Korea
Civil Rights leader who gave "I have a Dream" Speech. Was assassinated in Memphis
Martin Luther King JR
What are some reasons the Vietnam War became so unpopular in America?
Draft, TV, poor kids doing all the dying, dishonesty by American gov't, killing civilians, firebombing, etc.
Alliance of "Western" countries against Communism during the Cold War
NATO
The US policy to rebuild Western Europe with infrastructure and money in the late 1940s so they wouldn't turn to Communism
Marshall Plan
War that began small and slowly grew out of control, from a few thousand advisors to half a million troops
Vietnam War
Civil Rights leader in Nashville who organized the sit in movement that led to Nashville being the first desegregated city (in businesses and diners)
Diane Nash
East TN High School that was the first desegregated school in the South after Brown vs Board
Response to NATO by the Communist governments was to establish this alliance
Warsaw Pact
Theory that if one country fell to communism, so would all the countries in that region
Decision by JFK to try to overthrow Castro, ended in failure and embarassment
Bay of Pigs "invasion"
Civil Rights law that ended segregation of public places and discrimination in the workplace
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Law that provided economic aid/educational opportunities to returning WWII veterans
GI Bill
Group of Civil Rights activists who's work resulted in violence and arrests, but ultimately desegregated interstate buses
Freedom Riders
Policy of giving Vietnam back to their people and America leaving it
Vietnamization
Solution to the issue of Cuba having nuclear missiles aimed at America
Court Case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson by saying that Separate but Equal was illegal
Brown vs. Board of Education
Civil Rights law that fixed Jim Crow voting restrictions on African Americans
What is the country that we actually ended up fighting in Korea because McCarthy got too aggressive and threatened them?
China
Idea that both countries can push each other right to edge of war, and the first to give in loses
Brinksmanship
Solution to the problem of Stalin blockading West Berlin to try and force it to become Communist
Berlin Airlift
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Time during the 50s and 60s when Americans were ultra paranoid about Communists among them and ruining American society
McCarthyism or Red Scare
Law that led to increase in peoples ability to live in the suburbs and make interstate travel much easier
Interstate Highway Act