Truman
This was created in response to the situation in Greece and Turkey. It was the foundational U.S. policy created by President Truman that would support free peoples against direct or indirect communist aggression.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
Leader of the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
This court case struck down "separate but equal" in public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Winner of the Election of 1960. He was eventually assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This gave the president to wage war without declaring it.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
What is the Marshall Plan?
Held positions of Secretary of State and head Central Intelligence Agency. They both meddled in the affairs of other nations to topple governments possibly susceptible to communist influence.
This was a town in Arkansas that attempted to quietly integrate nine high school students.
What is Little Rock?
This was JFK's domestic policy. It heavily advocated for space programs and led to the moon landing. It also called for the Peace Corps.
What is the New Frontier?
This was an event that occurred on a holiday. Usually, people would not fight on this day, but the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops invaded South Vietnam.
What is the Tet Offensive?
Creator of the Containment Policy.
Who is George Kennan?
These were considered the "Six Monsters of the world" in class. Think of the name of the countries.
What is Iran, Guatemala, Vietnam, Indonesia, Congo, and Cuba?
This was a student of University of Mississippi who was rejected from the school multiple times because he had his picture on his application. When he took his picture off his application, he was accepted to the school.
This event was the closest the U.S. got to nuclear warfare.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This pathway went through Laos and Cambodia to supply the Viet Cong in Southern Vietnam.
What is the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
A defensive alliance between the United States and their traditional allies.
What is the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
President after Harry Truman.
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
Famous Civil Rights Leader, who advocated for nonviolent resistance.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This was LBJ's domestic policy. It focused on poverty.
What is the Great Society?
What is the My Lai Massacre?
A defensive alliance between the Soviets and eastern Europeans nations.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This major highway project, signed into law by Eisenhower in 1956, transformed American infrastructure and spurred suburban growth.
What is the Highway Act?
This dismantled Jim Crow Laws.
Republican presidential candidate during the Election of 1964.
Who is Barry Goldwater?
This called for an immediate ceasefire in Vietnam in January 1973.
What are the Paris Peace Accords?