Cold War Tensions
Policy proposed by George F. Kennan to stop the spread of communism
What is containment policy?
Kennedy urged the military to catch up to the USSR in this area of military tech
What is missile development?
This 1954 Supreme Court decision overturned Plessy v. Ferguson.
This resolution gave LBJ broad war powers in Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?
This 1969 music festival symbolized counterculture ideals.
What is Woodstock?
Churchill coined this term to describe the divide between the west and the east of Europe
What is the "iron curtain"?
In response to the launching of Sputnik, USA started what program to get to the moon?
What is the Apollo Program?
This 1960 tactic aimed to desegregate public lunch counters.
What are sit-ins?
This famous event increased U.S. involvement in Vietnam after the French withdrawal, was seen as a protest
What is the burning monk?
This law funded post-WWII education for veterans.
What is the GI Bill?
The US plan to aid the economic recovery of Europe after WW2
What is the Marshall Plan?
Kennedy's covert mission to overthrow Fidel Castro
What is Bay of Pigs?
Known for writing the letter from Birmingham Jail
Who is MLK?
Vietnam differed from Korea because of this
What is the collapse of the U.S.-backed South Vietnamese government?
This scandal prompted Gerald Ford to say, “Our long national nightmare is over.”
What is Watergate scandal?
Military-industrial complex
This Cold War issue, said to be the closest they got to nuclear war, involved the US, USSR, and another country
what is Cuban Missile Crisis?
Malcolm X believed in what type of activism
what is violent activism?
This major event in 1968 turned U.S. public opinion against the war.
What is the Tet Offensive?
This 1979 nuclear incident decreased public enthusiasm for nuclear energy.
What is the Three-mile Incident?
This Cold War strategy was to use atomic weapons to prevent war
The U.S. response to fears of Soviet missile superiority included investment in this submarine.
This 1956 document opposed school integration in the South.
What is the Southern Manifesto?
Unlike the Korean War, the Vietnam War lacked this formal action by Congress.
What is declaration of war?
This 1973–74 crisis caused by OPEC was due to U.S. support for Israel.
What is the Yom-kippur War/Oil embargo?