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World War II
1950s at Home and Abroad
JFK, LBJ, and Vietnam
Civil Rights and Counter Culture
A Changing Society
100
On December 7th, the Japanese bombed America at this military base.
What is Pearl Harbor
100
It provided military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey when they were threatened by communism
What is the Truman Doctrine
100
When the Soviet Union and The United States were closest to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis
100
A rebellion against the dominant culture of a society.
What is Counter Culture
100
The general easing of relationships between the US and the Soviet Union in 1971
What is Detente
200
When we loaned military weapons to countries that were vital to our defense.
What is the Lend-Lease Act
200
A telegram in which G.F. Kennan described the magnitude of dealing with Soviet Communism
What is Kennan's Long Telegram
200
JFK's campaign dealing with space exploration.
What is The New Frontier
200
The Supreme court case that legalized abortion.
What is Roe vs. Wade
200
The sharing of profits and losses between groups
What is revenue sharing
300
America's main way of fighting in the Pacific theatre
What is island hopping
300
It provided monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II
What is the Marshall Plan
300
agenda that had to do with health care, education, and poverty.
What is The Great Society
300
Made companies associated with the federal government actively recruit African American and minority employees
What is Affirmative Action
300
It lead to the impeachment of Nixon
What is Watergate
400
a term for the growing Southern population and increased job opportunities there.
What is the Sunbelt
400
An intergovernmental military alliance brought about some standardization of allied military terminology
What is NATO
400
Johnson gets permission to wage war without declaration of War.
What is the Tonkin Gulf Resolution
400
An organization that used non violent tactics as a way to challenge exsisting segregation.
What is C.O.R.E. (Congress of Racial Equality)
400
An economic state in which inflation is high and economic growth slows down
What is stagflation
500
The first time American bombs fell on Japan on April 8th.
What is the Doolittle Raid
500
A war between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea
What is the Korean War
500
The supreme court case that legislated "one man, one vote".
What is Baker vs. Carr
500
The lawyer for the Supreme Court Case Brown vs. Board of Education.
Who is Thurgood Marshall
500
An attempt to improve relations between the Communist Bloc and the West, these accords were signed in 1975
What are the Helsinki Accords