Red Scare Bears
This senator basically started a nationwide panic about communists.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
Laws enforcing segregation in the South.
What are Jim Crow laws?
First satellite launched by the Soviet Union—had Americans stressed.
What is Sputnik?
Music genre that had teens rebelling and parents stressed.
What is rock ‘n’ roll?
Civil rights activist whose arrest sparked a major boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Nixon gave this speech to defend himself and his dog (yes, really).
What is the Checkers Speech?
This boycott started after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Debate between Nixon and Khrushchev in a model kitchen (yes, really).
What is the Kitchen Debate?
This artist became the face of that genre (basically the original rock star).
Who is Elvis Presley?
Vice president under Eisenhower who later became president.
Who is Richard M. Nixon?
Playwright who criticized the Red Scare vibes in his work.
Who is Arthur Miller?
This Supreme Court case said segregation in schools = unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This 1956 revolt in Eastern Europe failed against Soviet control.
What is the Hungarian uprising?
Art movement that was chaotic, emotional, and lowkey “paint splatter but make it deep.”
What is abstract expressionism?
Leader of the Soviet Union during much of the Cold War tension.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
This term describes the whole anti-communist witch hunt era.
What is McCarthyism?
Civil rights group that used nonviolent protest (student-led, organized energy).
What is SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) pronounced "Snick"?
Battle where Vietnamese forces defeated the French in 1954.
What is the Battle of Dien Bien Phu?
Group of writers who rejected conformity and traditional society.
What is the Beat Generation?
Communist leader of North Vietnam.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
These televised hearings exposed McCarthy and ended his career (lowkey canceled him).
What are the Army-McCarthy hearings?
Leader who promoted nonviolence and became the face of the movement.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Crisis over control of a major canal involving Egypt and European powers.
What is the Suez Crisis?
Book that called out how society boxed women into limited roles.
What is The Feminine Mystique?
Egyptian leader during the Suez Crisis.
Who is Gamal Abdel Nasser?