"Contain" Your Enthusiasm (Containment)
The primary goal of this U.S. policy was to stop the spread of communism through economic and political means.
What is Containment?
Based on the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, Americans feared communism because the government would seize this.
What is private property?
This term describes the permanent relationship between Congress, the military, and private defense contractors.
What is the Iron Triangle?
This law helped "engineer" the middle class by providing low-interest home loans and college education for veterans.
What is the G.I. Bill?
These individuals returned from World War II ready to demand the equality they had fought for abroad.
Who are Black veterans?
The film A Date with the Family portrays a rigid and polite suburban lifestyle that was later criticized by the Beat Generation because they felt this type of existence was boring and forced people to be fake.
What is conformity?
The main ideological struggle of the Cold War was between democratic capitalism and this type of government.
What is a communist dictatorship?
During the 1950s, the government targeted and fired gay federal employees during this specific "Scare".
What is the Lavender Scare?
President Eisenhower warned that profit motives in this "Complex" might push the country into unnecessary wars.
What is the Military Industrial Complex?
This 1950s cultural standard pressured women to find fulfillment only as housewives and mothers.
What is the Feminine Ideal?
This protest was a successful example of using nonviolent resistance and economic pressure to change laws.
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This plan provided billions of dollars in aid to help European economies specifically to make capitalism look better than communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
During the Second Red Scare, the U.S. used these types of tactics like restricting speech to try and "save" democracy.
What are authoritarian/oppressive tactics?
Eisenhower argued that money spent on weapons was a "theft" from those who needed food and this other service.
What are schools?
This legal practice blocked Black families from buying homes in the suburbs and building wealth.
What is redlining?
Mamie Till Mobley used this to ensure the world saw the truth about racial violence in America.
What is an open casket funeral?
The Korean War is an example of this type of conflict where superpowers supported different sides to avoid a direct war.
What is a Proxy War?
This 1957 "Crisis" led to a huge government investment in American math and science education.
What was the Sputnik Crisis?
The U.S. conducted these types of operations in Iran and Guatemala to overthrow leaders and protect economic interests.
What are covert operations?
Writers like Jack Kerouac belonged to this generation which rejected suburban life as boring and fake.
What is the Beat Generation?
Eisenhower sent federal troops here to uphold the law and protect Black students during school integration.
What is Little Rock, Arkansas?
This event was a major moral victory because it proved the U.S. could protect its allies without firing a single shot.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
President Truman fired this General because he wanted to use nuclear bombs, which threatened to start World War III.
Who is General Douglas MacArthur?
In the "Three World" model, this term referred to developing nations that did not strictly pick a side in the Cold War.
What is the Third World?
Conservative parents feared this music because it blurred racial barriers by mixing Black and White musical styles.
What is Rock and Roll?
This nation used images of American racism in its global propaganda to show American hypocrisy.
What is the Soviet Union?
Within 300 dollars, how much were Emmett Till's murders paid to share their stories in 1955?
$4,000