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Early Cold War
Spies in the 1950s
The Cold War - Eisenhower and JFK
Civil Rights
Vietnam
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Containment
What is the Cold War foreign policy that was meant to prevent further spread of communism.
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HUAC
What is the House UnAmerican Activities Committee that looked into perceived communist activities during the Second Red Scare of the 1950s
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The role of religion in the Cold War
What is the idea that communism was godless and America was strongly religious, using that conflict in ideology to push anti-communism. Eisenhower used religion to his advantage, adding Under God to the pledge and In God We Trust to currency
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Emmett Till
What is the 14 year old Chicago boy who was murdered in Money Mississippi for defying Jim Crow laws. His murder and the trial of his murderers brought to national and international attention the need for civil rights for African Americans
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Dien Bien Phu and its importance to the Vietnam War
What is the final battle of the French portion of the Vietnam War for freedom from colonialism, with the French being surrounded at their base and having to surrender, granting Vietnam independence
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The Berlin Crisis and its consequences
What is the blockade of the western section of Berlin by Josef Stalin, which the western powers dealt with by providing supplies by airlift, preventing full scale war and gaining the confidence of the West Berliners.
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An example of a "spy television" show and the consequences of shows such as this on culture
What is I Led Three Lives which fostered Cold War fears of Soviet spies infiltrating America
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Massive Retaliation
What is the idea that a first nuclear strike would be met with a massive counter attack, which would likely destroy both countries involved in the attacks. The concept kept either side from a first strike for fear of return nuclear strike
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The decision of Brown v Board of Education
What is the repealing of the separate but equal clause and the forced integration of races in all public places
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
What is the Resolution by Congress granting Lyndon Johnson the ability to use whatever means necessary to protect Americans in Vietnam. This resolution was passed after a perceived attack on the US navy ships the USS Maddox and the USS Turner Joy in the Gulf of Tonkin
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Linkage
What is the idea of creating a buffer zone of territory. Josef Stalin pursues this as a means to protect the USSR from outside invasion by controlling surrounding nations and the US sees this as a form of aggression
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McCarthyism
What is the era of "witch hunts" fostered by Senator Joseph McCarthy, which began when he claimed to have a list of State Department employees who were confirmed communists. The "witch hunts" continued until McCarthy was revealed as the fear mongering fraud that he was.
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The Bay of Pigs
What is a failed invasion of Cuba in order to overthrow Communist leader Castro, who was ready for the invasion. JFK never trusted the CIA after the failed invasion and the failed invasion made America look poorly in international circles
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Little Rock Nine
What is the nine children who were integrated into the Little Rock Arkansas public school after the Brown v Board of Ed decision, and who were prevented from entering the school by the Arkansas governor, eventually bringing in US troops ordered by President Eisenhower to escort the children into the school
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The Geneva Accords and the consequences
What is the peace treaty that finalized the French portion of the Vietnam War, dividing Vietnam temporarily into a Northern communist portion and a Southern democratic portion, with elections to be held in two years to unify Vietnam under one popularly elected leader
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The consequences of the Yalta Convention in Cold War Context
What is the division and occupation of Germany into four separate zones, each one occupied by one of the winning nations: The US, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union
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Conformity and how it was impacted by spy television
What is the idea that different meant the enemy to democracy, which was further forwarded by spy television because those who did not conform to the norm were often the spies.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
What is the 13 day span that was basically a game of "chicken" between the Soviet Union and the United States where the US tried to prevent the installation of Soviet Missiles in Cuba using a "quarantine" of Cuban ports.
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The Woolworth Lunch counter at Greensboro, North Carolina
What is the lunch counter sit in that sparked a successful peaceful sit-in demonstration that changed the whites only rule of department store lunch counters to allow African Americans service
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the Tet Offensive
What is the major North Vietnamese attack on several villages and cities throughout South Vietnam on a major Vietnamese holiday, often considered the turning point in America's Vietnam War because it was seen as a psychological defeat for the American forces
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The two specific events that lead US President Harry Truman to declare the US duty to prevent communist aggression everywhere
What is the civil war in Greece between communist insurgents and a Western backed government, and the attempts by the Soviet Union to take control of a Turkish waterway. This shifts US foreign policy to a global policy of containment.
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The spy case that brought Richard Nixon to prominence as a strong anti-communist Congressman
What is the Algier Hiss case, where Whittaker Chambers claimed to have evidence that proved that Hiss, a former State Department employee, had passed secrets to the Soviets. Chambers used a hollowed out pumpkin as a drop off point for microfilm that was used as evidence.
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Operation Mockingbird
What is the CIA program that infiltrated major news, television, and media networks, including Time, Newsweek, CBS, ABC, the New York Times and used those media outlets to influence reporting to promote CIA backed programs
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Freedom Summer and the incident with the three workers in Meridian Mississippi
What is the program to help African Americans register to vote in the deep south, and the disappearance of three civil rights workers in Meridian at the hands of the KKK while being unlawfully incarcerated
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Kent State, the circumstances that brought it about, and the consequences
What is the protest at Kent State University in Ohio, a protest against Nixon's secret invasion of Cambodia after his promises to observe Cambodia's neutrality, and the shooting of four students by National Guardsmen, further cementing the youth's distrust of authority