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A system in which the government has total control over all aspects of society, including the economy.
What is totalitarianism?
The struggle for power between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II.
What was the Cold War?
A form of irregular warfare where small groups use ambush tactics against larger forces
What was guerrilla warfare?
The Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What was the Brown v. Board of Education decision?
President JFK's plan to address poverty and social inequality
What was the New Frontier?
A German military strategy during World War II involving quick and surprise attacks
What is "Blitzkrieg"?
The practice of making accusations of communism without proper evidence
What was McCarthyism?
The leader of the Vietcong
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
Segregation enforced by law.
What is de jure segregation?
President Lyndon B. Johnson’s plan to address poverty and social inequality
What was the Great Society?
A major American Pacific naval base destroyed in a Japanese attack on December 7, 1941.
What was Pearl Harbor?
A U.S. foreign policy aimed at restricting the expansion of communism.
What was the policy of containment?
A major attack by North Vietnamese forces during the Vietnam War that weakened U.S. public support.
What was the Tet Offensive?
African-American students who integrated an all-white high school in Arkansas
Who were the Little Rock Nine?
A scandal in which President Nixon attempted to cover up a break-in, leading to his resignation.
What was Watergate?
The secret U.S. project to develop the atomic bomb during World War II
What was the Manhattan Project?
A military alliance formed in 1949 to establish collective security against the Soviet Union
What was NATO?
A movement led by Cesar Chavez to support farmworkers by boycotting grapes grown under poor conditions
What was the Grape Boycott?
The wall that separated democratic West Berlin and Communist East Berlin
What was the Berlin Wall?
A law providing education and housing benefits to World War II veterans
What was the GI Bill?
The imaginary line that separated communist Eastern Europe from democratic Western Europe.
What was the Iron Curtain?
A 1969 event that catalyzed the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement
What was the Stonewall Riots?
This president excelled in foreign policy, effectively ending the cold war during his presidency. Yet he is known as a blot on U.S. pride because of his unlawful conduct while in office.
Who is Richard Nixon?