From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, Winston Churchill warned in 1946 the West that this was descending across Europe.
What is the iron curtain
100
"Good Ol' Joe from Wisco" would be known to spread fear while he tried to find communists in and outside of the government, as he spreads "this regime" named after Joe himself.
What is McCarthyism
100
"You ain't nothin' but a hound dog" if you can't remember this Rock n Roll legend famous for his gyrating hips and flashy costumes.
Who is Elvis Presley
100
This operation was set up to help Western allies after the war rebuild their infrastructure and their economies. The plan was named after the Secretary of State at the time
What is the Marshall Plan
100
Lorraine Hansberry would write this Broadway play detailing the lives on inner cities African Americans and their struggles. Maybe it's the end of the "Grapes of Wrath?"
What is A Raisin in the Sun
200
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization would form after World War II, combining many of the Western Allies against this rival organization that is formed with the Soviet Union & its satellite countries.
What is the Warsaw Pact
200
This couple would be executed in 1953 by electric chair after being accused and convicted of passing information to the other Soviet spies.
Who are Ethel & Julius Rosenburg
200
President Truman tried to get many parts of his "Fair Deal" passed, but this unwilling legislature in the U.S. would prevent many of Truman's policies from getting passed.
What is the Do Nothing Congress
200
This law would be passed after WWII and would provide support for soldiers returning to the U.S. that offered better access to education and affordable housing
What is the GI Bill
200
Future Justice of the Supreme Court Thurgood Marshall would argue for the prosecution in this Supreme Court case outlying the end to segregation
What is Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka
300
Along with the "domino theory," this ideology of keeping communism from spread to nations in Asia and other places around the world would influence U.S. foreign policy to the end of the Cold War
What is containment
300
Alger Hiss would be accused of this crime by Richard Nixon after being investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee.
What is perjury
300
Suburbs became the center for the phenomenon of White Flight, the most famous of these suburbs was built in New York featuring mass produced houses in an old potato field.
What is Levittown
300
The Korean War would be filled with advances and retreats, but the Armistice for the war would draw the border at this point, which was essentially the pre-war border
What is the 38th parallel
300
Martin Luther King would help organize this event which saw African Americans in Alabama object to segregation on public transportation.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott
400
George Kennan was very diligent when outlining his policies regarding the Soviet Union. He would make his secretary skip a date to type up this distance-titled document.
What is the Long Telegram
400
This phrase strove to help American civilians protect themselves from an atomic bomb, no matter how ineffective it might be.
What is Duck & Cover
400
Television would become a massive hit in the 50's with shows like this one featuring a wacky women everyone would grow to love.
What is I Love Lucy
400
Over 40,000 miles of roads would be built across the country for military and domestic reasons. Ike would remark that this system would completely change how America traveled
What is the Eisenhower Interstate System
400
This organization would follow the SCLC in stepping up the resistance against racism and segregation by staging sit-ins and helping register blacks to vote.
What is Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
500
The Marshall Plan strained U.S.-Soviet relations so far that the Soviet Union would blockade the capital of East Germany. The U.S. & Britain would initiate this fly-by operation to help the people of the city.
What is the Berlin Airlift
500
Allen Dulles, first director of the Central Intelligence Agency, was interested in preventing communism in nations like this where Prime Minister Mossadegh nationalized the oil industry.
What is Iran
500
This labor law would outlaw the "closed shop," limiting work output, and limited political donations from unions would be initially vetoed by Truman. Congress like it so much, they overrode his veto.
What is the Taft-Hartley Act
500
American Indians would face a federal government focused on relocation when Congress would do this to long held treaties with many Native American Tribes.
What is termination
500
Minnijean Brown, one of these famous high school students, would dump a bowl a chili on a harassing white student at Central High School. One down, Eight to go.