Legacies of WWII
American Home Front
The Red Scare
Containment
Early Civil Rights
100

This helped veterans of WWII attend college, start businesses and purchase homes.

The GI Bill

100

In 1948, this group split from the Democratic Party over the issue of discussions on civil rights.

The Dixiecrats

100

This couple became some of the earliest victims of the Red Scare, when they were charged, tried and executed for selling atomic secrets to the Soviets.

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

100

Name the act containment pictured below


The Truman Doctrine

100

The NAACP won THIS,  its most significant court case to date in 1954, that ended the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling.

Brown v. Board of Education

200
The relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union collapsed at this Allied Conference in 1945.

Potsdam

200

This was the domestic program of President Truman designed to keep programs of the New Deal like minimum wage and social security.

the Fair Deal

200

This group was organized by Congress in the early 1950s to find communists in all aspects of American life, particularly Hollywood, and expel them from public life.

House Un-American Activities Committee

200

As the fight to stop the spread of communism spread to the Middle East and Latin America, Eisenhower used the CIA to remove unfavorable governments in these 2 countries in the 1950s.

Guatemala and Iran

200

The man pictured below is

Malcolm X

300
American fears of space becoming a new realm of the Cold War were realized with this event in 1957 and resulted in this act by Congress.

the orbiting of Sputnik, NDEA (National Defense in Education Act)

300

the image below is an example of


a Levittown home

a suburb


300

the unofficial leader of the communist witch hunt of the late 1940s and early 50s, pictured below:


Joseph McCarthy

300
This was the reason that American taxpayers supported the $13 billion given to European states in the Marshall Plan.

American industry needed an economically sound Europe.

300

This image from 1968 is a representation in support of


Black Power

400

List one legacy of the image below:


a nuclear age of warfare is ushered in

the Soviets and the U.S. are enemies

fear of communism increases in the U.S.

the devastating effects of the nuclear bomb become clear

400

Dwight D. Eisenhower added this agency to his cabinet, as seen below


Department of Heath, Education and Welfare

400
Americans in federal, state and local government employment were required to take loyalty oaths as a part of this act of Congress in 1950.

The McCarran Act

400

The cartoon represents was containment ideology


The Domino Theory 

400

This event convinced President Johnson to pass the Voting Rights Act in 1965.

Selma

500

Name the campaign represented by the image below and the group that used it to change the American homefront


The Double V campaign, African Americans

500

President Eisenhower warned in his farewell address of the issue in the image below



military industrial complex

500

This congressional act limited the rights of labor unions, and required all activities reported to the government.

Taft-Hartley Act

500

The belief that the USSR would collapse if allowed to be contained came from the studies and writings of this US spy and late CIA agent.

George Kennan

500

The first president to take action in support of Civil Rights since the Reconstruction Era was

President Truman