Cold War/1950's
In this 1948 event, the U.S. and other allies flew food and supplies to West Berlin after East Germany and the Soviets implemented the Berlin Blockade.
What was the Berlin Airlift?
The violent lynching of this young man and the ensuing open-casket funeral in 1954 sparked the Civil Rights movement.
Who was Emmett Till?
This was Nixon's plan for Vietnam in which the US slowly withdrew while handing the war over to the South Vietnamese.
What was Vietnamization?
This scandal eventually led to the resignation of Richard Nixon. Nixon was pardoned by Ford afterward for "any crimes that may have been committed" against the United States.
What was Watergate?
He was the president during most of WWII.
Who was FDR?
This is the term for the culture around making unfounded claims that people were communist. It was named after a Wisconsin senator who frequently made such accusations.
What is McCarthyism?
This landmark Supreme Court case undid Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) and integrated schools in America.
What is Brown v. Board?
This incident led to the president receiving unchecked powers of war and led to increased US involvement in Vietnam.
What was the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?
This was the group that Nixon called on to help him win the 1968 election. They were middle-class Americans who did not protest or do drugs or hang with the hippies.
Who were "The Silent Majority"?
This was the largest amphibious operation of World War II.
What was D-Day or Operation Overlord?
This was a metaphor used by Winston Churchill to describe the growing communist threat in Eastern Europe. "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic a(n) _________________ has descended across the continent.
What was the iron curtain?
This was a peaceful campaign in which Black citizens refused to ride busses in an Alabama city.
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This incident off the coast of Cuba, caused by the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion, marked the height of Cold War tension.
The Cuban Missile Crisis
This was the name of Reagan's economic policy, which cut taxes (especially for the wealthy) and generally cut government spending, except in the case of the military.
What is Reaganomics or Trickle Down Economics or Voodoo Economics?
This president signed the executive order that moved nearly 120,000 Japanese to internment camps.
Who was FDR?
This plan provided economic aid to European countries after World War II in order to help rebuild their economies and encourage democracy.
What was the Marshall Plan?
President Eisenhower sent in the 101st Airborne to escort this group to school in Arkansas.
Who were the Little Rock 9?
This was Lyndon Johnson's set of domestic policies, which included several social welfare programs aimed at eradicating poverty, rebuilding cities, and benefitting the poor and minorities.
What was the Great Society?
In 1973, this organization cut off their supply of oil to the US, causing stagflation.
What was OPEC?
The first atomic bomb was dropped on this city.
What was Hiroshima?
This organization included the US and Western European countries, and it declared that if one member nation was attacked, the others would enter into military conflict to support them.
What was NATO?
This group represented a militant, socialist interpretation of civil rights, and its extreme views led it to be tracked by the FBI.
Who were the Black Panthers?
This path enabled North Vietnamese to move troops and supplies from North Vietnam to South Vietnam by moving through Cambodia and Laos.
What was the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
Under the Nixon administration, this administration was created to regulate environmental outputs from businesses and consumer products.
What is the EPA?
This executive order barred discrimination in federal jobs and wartime industries.
What was executive order 8802?