Cold War Proxies
The point of the division of the Korean peninsula between the US and the USSR?
the 38th parallel
The policy to stop the spread of communism from outside of its existing borders.
containment
This president threaten North Korean forces with atomic attacks in order to stop fighting in the Korean War
Dwight Eisenhower
prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Refused to move to the back of the bus
Rosa Parks
the war that President Truman the U.N sent troops for "policing action."
The Korean War
The belief that the U.S. should use force to stop the spread of communism anywhere in the world
Truman Doctrine
This president sent military advisors to Vietnam in the 1950s
John F. Kennedy
Reversed the Supreme Court ruling of "separate but equal" from the landmark "Plessy v Ferguson" court case
Brown v. Board of Education
A former minister of the Nation of Islam who advocated for Black Nationalism and self-defense
Malcolm X
A "turning point" in the Vietnam War which caught U.S and South Vietnamese forces off guard
Tet Offensive
The policy of offering financial aid and building supplies to help rebuild European countries after their devastation from WW II.
Marshall Plan
This president ordered napalm strikes in Vietnam
Lyndon B. Johnson
NAACP lawyer who litigated famous civil rights cases such as Brown v. Board of Education and later became the first black Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall
Christian leader who advocated for civil rights for black Americans and dreamed of a future where people would not be judged by the color of their skin
Martin Luther King, Jr.
the term DMZ stands for this area of separation here no military conflict occurs.
Demilitarized Zone
The U.S.-led Allies got much-needed supplies to Western Berliners without having to start a war by not going through Soviet blockades in East Germany.
Berlin Airlift
This president initiated the ideas that would become the Civil Rights Act of 1964
John F. Kennedy
The first civil rights act passed that prohibited racial discrimination in the hiring process within the federal government was signed into law by President Eisenhower.
Civil Rights Act of 1957
A group of Black Nationalists who had a Ten-Point Plan and advocated for self-defense against police brutality
The Black Panthers
President Johnson escalated U.S. involvement in Vietnam as a result of this event
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
the region of Europe which the U.S. wanted to offer Marshall Plan economic aid in order to convince them not to choose communism.
Eastern
This president signed in the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Lyndon B. Johnson
This law banned voting obstacles to minorities such as literacy tests, poll tax, property ownership, and the grandfather clauses from Reconstruction.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This Civil Rights group performed Freedom Rides, voter registration for black Americans in the Jim Crow South, and practiced non-violent demonstrations
C.O.R.E. (Congress of Racial Equality)