Cold War
US foreign policy aimed at preventing the spread of communism
containment
Berlin Airlift
Period in the 1950's of anti-communism
2nd Red Scare
Author of Silent Spring leading to the formation of the EPA
Rachel Carson
Harry Truman's Domestic Policy
Fair Deal
Causes of the Cold War (need at least 3)
Soviet acquisition of Nuclear weapons
Long Telegram
China's fall to communism
How did the Korean War end?
Stalemate or
peace was restored at the 38th parallel
Committee established to root out civilian communists living amongst Americans
HUAC or House of un-American Activities committee
Author of the Feminine Mystique leading to the Women's Liberation Movement
Betty Friedan
Name a Keystone achievement of Eisenhower's presidency
Interstate Highway Act
NASA
US plan to provide economic aid to Greece and Turkey to prevent the spread of Communism
Marshall Plan
Ho Chi Minh or the Viet Cong
Wisconsin Senator who increased paranoia about communists working in the Government and living in American society
Joe McCarthy
Counter culture movement of the 1950's
Beat Movement
Nixon's proposal to gradually withdraw troops from Vietnam
Vietnamization
Crisis in 1962 that brought the US and the Soviet Union the closest to war during the Cold War period
Cuban Missile crisis
Identify 2 reasons Tensions erupted in American society over the Vietnam War.
Selective Service Act, My Lai Massacre, 1st war that was televised...
Government employees were required to appear before the _____________________ for questioning to prove their loyalty to the United States.
Loyalty Review Board
Student led group that organized peaceful protests against actions of the US government in the 1960's
Students for a democratic Society
Lyndon B Johnson's Domestic Policy
Great Society
Soviet response to the creation of the military alliance NATO
Warsaw Pact
President Johnson was authorized to use force without a congressional declaration of war with this Congressional measure
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
2 scandals of the early 1970's that led to the credibility gap
Pentagon Papers and Watergate
Voting rights protest in Alabama that resulted in what became known as bloody Sunday
Selma March
Nixon's Foreign policy of relaxing tensions between the Soviets and the U.S.
Detente