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Early Cold War
1950s
JFK and LBJ
Civil Rights Movement
Vietnam
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A policy set forth by the U.S. President Harry Truman in a speech on March 12, 1947 stating that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere
What is Truman Doctrine?
100
The most visible public face of a period in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread Communist subversion
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
100
The Democratic slogan to inspire America to support JFK
What is New Frontier's Goal?
100
An African-American civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress called "the first lady of civil rights", and "the mother of the freedom movement". Would not go to the back of the bus.
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
a theory during the 1950s to 1980s, promoted at times by the government of the United States, that speculated that if one state in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow.
What is Domino Theory?
200
A United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad
What is containment?
200
A period marked by a greatly increased birth rate.
What is the baby boom
200
An unsuccessful military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the paramilitary group Brigade 2506 in April 1961. A counter-revolutionary militiary trained and funded by the United States government's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Brigade 2506 fronted the armed wing of the Democratic Revolutionary Front (DRF) and intended to overthrow the revolutionary leftist government of President Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.
What is Bay of Pigs?
200
Some think he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans. Detractors accused him of preaching racism, black supremacy, and violence. He has been called one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history.
Who is Malcolm X?
200
a political organization and army in South Vietnam and Cambodia that fought the United States and South Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam War (1959–1975), and emerged on the winning side. It had both guerrilla and regular army units, as well as a network of cadres who organized peasants in the territory it controlled.
What is Vietcong?
300
The American program to aid Europe where the United States gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism.
What is Marshall Plan?
300
A law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s). Benefits included low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business or farm, cash payments of tuition and living expenses to attend college, high school or vocational education, as well as one year of unemployment compensation.
What is GI Bill?
300
A 13-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side, and the United States on the other, in October 1962. It is one of the major confrontations of the Cold War, and is generally regarded as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to turning into a nuclear conflict
What is Cuban Missile Crisis?
300
Gave I have a Dream speech and wrote Letter from Birmingham Jail. Symbol of civil rights movement.
Who is Martin Luther King?
300
It is of historical significance because it gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use of "conventional'' military force in Southeast Asia. Specifically, the resolution authorized the President to do whatever necessary in order to assist "any member or protocol state of the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty". This included involving armed forces
What is Tonkin Gulf Resolution?
400
One of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Allied control.
What is Berlin Blockade?
400
A social and economic order that encourages the purchase of goods and services in ever-greater amounts.
What is Consumerism?
400
A barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin.
What is the Berlin Wall?
400
a group of African-American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, and then attended after the intervention of President Eisenhower, is considered to be one of the most important events in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.[
What is Little Rock Crisis?
400
a military campaign during the Vietnam War that was launched on January 30, 1968 by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnam against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies. It was a campaign of surprise attacks that were launched against military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam, during a period when no attacks were supposed to take place.
What is Tet Offensive?
500
This war primarily the resulted in the political division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War at the end of World War II
What is the Korean War?
500
Denotes the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents. Focused on national and foreign communists influencing society, infiltrating the federal government, or both
What is Second Red Scare?
500
He was assassinated on November 22, 1963
Who is JFK?
500
A landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
500
a policy of the Richard M. Nixon administration during the Vietnam War, as a result of the Viet Cong's Tet Offensive, to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops.
What is Vietnamization?