Postwar & 1950s
This genre of music helped break down racial barriers
What is Rock n' Roll?
To stop the spread of communism.
What is Containment?
Funding for weapons programs ________ following the start of the space race.
What is increased?
Members of the counterculture movement
Who are Hippies?
Military tactic used by the Viet Cong
What is Guerilla Warfare?
Contributed to population growth, destruction of forests, the Interstate Highway Act, and increase in farmland.
What are suburbs?
2 Proxy wars the US fought for Containment Policy
What are the Korean War and Vietnam War?
The first satellite launched into space
What is Sputnik?
Realizing the mistake they made after the Gulf of Tonkin incident, this transfers War Powers back to Congress.
What is the War Powers Resolution (Act)?
Due to media coverage of the war, public support of the US in Vietnam _____________.
What is decreased?
The OFFICIAL name of the law that gave cheap housing, healthcare, and free education to those who serve in the military.
What is the Servicemen's Readjustment Act?
The theory that if one country fell to communism, the surrounding countries would, too.
The United States increased educational concentration in these subjects during the Cold War.
What are math and science?
The difference between what the government says and what they actually do.
What is the credibility gap?
The process of transferring combat responsibility to South Vietnam
What is Vietnamization?
The years of the baby boom generation
What is 1946-1964?
Provided military support to Western Europe following WWII
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This technology affected the US economy by increasing efficiency in telecommunications.
What are satellites?
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
What Amendment lowered the voting age to 18
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Name and explain 2 reasons for prosperity in the 1950s.
GI Bill- gave out affordable loans to veterans, increasing home ownership across the US
Baby Boom- increase in population led to a demand for housing and highways, more food and farmland.
Mass Consumerism- with men returned home from war, more jobs were available and more people had money to spend, increasing the production/consumption of goods.
Suburbs- the rise of suburbs increased homeownership and traditional family values.
These 2 countries were supported by the US Marshall Plan
What are Britain and France?
President JFK ordered a naval blockade due to this event.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The Supreme Court ruled that you may exercise your 1st amendment rights in school, as long as it doesn't disrupt the educational process.
What is Tinker vs. Des Moines?
Recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor for the Vietnam War?
Who is Roy Benavidez?