US WORLD WAR II
COLD WAR
POST WAR
GREAT SOCIETY
CIVIL RIGHTS
100

was in command of Allied forces on the islands

Douglas MacArthur

100

The willingness of the United States, under President Eisenhower, to go to the edge of all-out war became known as

brinkmanship

100
  • Blank expressed the social and literary nonconformity of artists, poets, and writers. Counter culture movement

  • beat movement

100
  • A second foreign aid program

  • Alliance for Progress

100
  • a seamstress and an NAACP officer, took a seat in the front row of the “colored” section of a Montgomery bus

  • Rosa Parks

200

famous tank commander of American forces in Europe

George Patton

200

As the nation shifted to a dependence on nuclear arms, the Eisenhower administration began to rely heavily on the recently formed

Central Intelligence Agency

200

This event involved a cover up, a break in, and the Republican party

Watergate Scandal

200
  • investigated and concluded that Oswald had shot the president while acting on his own

  • Warren Commission

200
  • After the bus boycott ended, King joined with ministers and civil rights leaders in 1957 to found the

  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference

300

was a turning point in the Pacific War. Soon the Allies began “island hopping.”

Battle of Midway

300

linked the Soviet Union with seven Eastern European countries

Warsaw Pact

300
Was known for the mass production of homes

William Levitt

300
  • Kennedy set out to transform his broad vision of progress into what he called the

  • New Frontier

300

segregation that exists by practice and custom

de facto segregation

400

suicide-plane, attack in which Japanese pilots crashed their bomb-laden planes into Allied ships

kamikaze

400

the United States would defend the Middle East against an attack by any communist country

Eisenhower Doctrine

400
  • To help ease veterans’ return to civilian life, Congress passed the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act

  • GI Bill of Rights

400

Name a program that started under Johnson as a part of the "War on Poverty"

Head Start

Medicare

Medicaid

etc.

400

a more militant and nationalist political movement. Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded a political party known as the

Black Panthers

500

the development of the atomic bomb was not only the most ambitious scientific enterprise in history, it was also the best-kept secret of the war

J. Robert Oppenheimer

500

the 1960s opened with tension between the two superpowers as great as ever

U-2 incident

500
  • In an attempt to break the blockade, American and British officials started the

  • Berlin airlift

500
  • In April 1960, Baker helped students at Shaw University, an African-American university in Raleigh, North Carolina, to organize a national protest group

  • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

500

ended discrimination based on race

Civil Rights Act of 1964