This Civil Rights law was passed in 1965 to prevent situations like the tent cities in west Tennessee and the deaths of 3 Freedom Summer workers in Mississippi in 1964.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Eastern European countries that were controlled by Stalin's communist regime
Satellites
The Red Scare of the 1950s led to the building of these structures
bomb shelters
He ordered a naval blockade to be placed around Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
John Kennedy
Consumer product that created the greatest change on the U.S. society during the decade of the 1950s.
Television
This recording studio in Memphis, Tennessee is known for Soul Music and launched the careers of many African American artists.
Stax Records
U.S. foreign policy from the 1950s, it threatened the use of nuclear weapons
Brinkmanship
An official U.S. foreign policy after World War II. The goal was to stop the expansion of Communism.
Containment
This was a U.S. pledge to help any country resisting communism by sending them money, weapons and food.
Truman Doctrine
Elvis Presley was discovered in 1953 at this recording studio in Memphis, Tennessee.
Sun Records
The Interstate Highway Act would be important for the U.S. military and the U.S. economy. American suburbs greatly expanded. President ______ signed this act into law in the mid 1950s.
Eisenhower
The Bay of Pigs invasion was an attempt to remove this communist leader from power.
Fidel Castro
The U.S. entered this competition after the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957.
Space Race
This President called for a "Great Society" that would end poverty in the United States.
Lyndon Johnson
The GI Bill and the Interstate Highway Act greatly expanded ________ all across the U.S. after World War II.
Suburbs
This U.S. Senator became known as America's best known fighter against the communist threat inside the United States.
Joe McCarthy
This was the Soviet response to the formation of NATO
Warsaw Pact
These actors, producers and directors refused to answer questions from HUAC concerning the communist threat and were arrested
Hollywood 10
He signed the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Lyndon Johnson
He discovered Elvis at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee.
Sam Phillips
A President Kennedy strategy to have a military with many options other than just a nuclear response.
Flexible Response
He was shot down over the Soviet Union in an U-2 spy plane in 1960.
Gary Powers
This Chinese leader and U.S. ally, fled Communist China in 1949 and moved with his followers to present day Taiwan
Chiang Kai-Shek
He was President Eisenhower's Secretary of State that promoted the policies of Massive Retaliation and Brinkmanship. (John F. ____________)
Dulles
This famous Tennessee Congressman and two time Vice-Presidential candidate, led televised congressional hearings into organized crime.
Estes Kefauver