Category 1: Cold War & Korea
This policy aimed to stop the spread of communism.
What is Containment?
Civil rights leader who promoted nonviolent protest.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Communist leader of North Vietnam.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
President connected to the Watergate scandal.
Who is Richard Nixon?
Trail used to move supplies from North to South Vietnam.
What is the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
This line divided North and South Korea.
What is the 38th Parallel?
Supreme Court case that ended school segregation.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Surprise attack on major South Vietnamese Cities in 1968 that shocked Americans.
What is the Tet Offensive?
President who pardoned Nixon.
Who is Gerald Ford?
Body of water connected to a major Vietnam escalation event.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin?
U.S. and Western European nations formed this alliance during the Cold War.
What is NATO?
Woman whose arrest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Dense jungle fighting style used by the Viet Cong
What is Guerilla Warfare?
The president who faced the crisis in which Americans were held hostage in Iran.
Who is President Carter?
Imaginary line dividing communist and noncommunist Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
Senator known for accusing Americans of being communists without strong evidence.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
This civil rights organization, founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, promoted Black empowerment, self-defense, and community programs during the 1960s.
What is the Black Panther Party?
Resolution that expanded U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
Economic plan associated with Ronald Reagan.
What is Reaganomics?
City in Europe that was divided during the Cold War and blockaded by the Soviets.
What is Berlin?
Soviet launch of this satellite began the Space Race.
What is Sputnik?
1963 event where MLK gave his “I Have a Dream” speech.
What is the March on Washington?
Nixon’s plan to gradually withdraw U.S. troops from Vietnam.
What is Vietnamization?
Secret scandal involving arms sales during Reagan’s presidency.
What is the Iran-Contra Scandal?
Military alliance formed by the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
What is the Warsaw Pact?