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The Cold War
The 50s Society
The Civil Rights Movement
The Turbulent 60s
The Last 40 Years
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Communism was spreading in the Soviet Union while America was conservative. This created a lot of tension between the two nations.
What caused the Cold War?
100
The doctrine that said the US would aid countries around the world who are fighting communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
100
Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in the "White" car of the East Louisiana Railroad. The case went to the Supreme Court and it was decided that "separate" facilities for blacks and whites were considered constitutional as long as they were "equal."
What is the Plessy v. Ferguson Case?
100
During the summer of 1962 the flow of Soviet weapons into Cuba, including nuclear, increased greatly.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
100
Many young people rebelled against their parents' values and traditions. Many became hippies and believed in the morals of peace and happiness.
What is the counterculture movement?
200
Each side built up huge nuclear arsenals and competed to have a stronger power.
What was the Arms Race?
200
A European recovery plan to give aid to 16 countries in 1947. $13 billion in aid were given to rebuild Western Europe. This was offered to Eastern Europe but the Soviet Union refused.
What is the Marshall Plan?
200
The Founder of Tuskegee Institution in 1891 who focused on industrial education and did not support social equality.
Who was Booker T. Washington?
200
When more Soviet ships headed for the U.S. with weapons, JFK ordered a blockade. The first break in the crisis occurred when the Soviets ships turned back. Finally, Khrushchev agreed to remove the nuclear weapons from Cuba in exchange for a U.S. promise NOT to invade Cuba.
What were the 13 days?
200
An organization hoping to protect women's reproductive rights and fight for the Equal Rights Amendment.
What is the National Organization for Women?
300
The race to see who could get the most achievements in space. Each nation wanted to prove that they were stronger and had better technology.
What was the Space Race?
300
The defense alliance among Soviet Union and its satellite governments in Eastern Europe.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
300
This organization founded by James Farmers in 1942, sought to bring about change through peaceful measures.
What is the Congress of Racial Equality?
300
One of the first programs launched by JFK. It was a volunteer program to assist developing nations in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
What is the Pace Corps?
300
The Vietnamese leader who worked to free Vietnam from colonial rule. Unable to get support from western nations, ?he embraced communism and received support from Soviet communists.
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
400
The games that served as a Cold War battlefield. If the nation were to win, they would prove their physical superiority over the other nation.
What was the Olympic Games.
400
Communist North Korea invaded South Korea. The US aided South while China aided the North. 33,000 American soldiers died and 100,000 wounded.
What is the Korean War?
400
Rosa Parks refused to leave her seat for a white man. She was arrested and a yearlong boycott was put on the bus company.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
400
Founded in 1958, congress passed this act in response to the launch of Sputnik. Its purpose was to provide organization and direction of U.S. space program. First missions focused on getting humans into space, studying effects of space on humans, and returning astronauts safely to Earth.
What is NASA?
400
Many young people of this time didn't believe in the war because it went against their views of peace.
What was the cunterculture's views on the Vietnam War?
500
The communist system could not keep up with the races and their economy collapsed.
Who "won" the Cold War?
500
Between 1940 and 1955, the U.S. population experienced its greatest increase, growing 27 percent from about 130 to about 165 million.
What was the baby boom?
500
In the Spring of 1961, SNCC members joined with activists. They placed white and black students on interstate busses to test the new court decision to desegregate waiting rooms and dining facilities at bus stops.
What were freedom rides?
500
NASA's first mission. Its goals were to get an astronaut into space, complete an orbit, and return the astronaut safely.
What is the Mercury Project?
500
The longest war in the US. They tried to keep communist out of South Vietnam.
What is the Vietnam War?