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Leader of North Vietnamese forces through the 1950s and 60s
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
100
This stated that the United States would give assistance to any forces resisting the conquest of Communist forces in their country.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
100
This referred to the massive increase in births in the United States in the early 1950s.
What was the baby boom
100
Political leader of the Soviet Union that called for glasnost and perestroika
Who was Mikhail Gorbachev
100
This group of U.S. citizens began attending college in much greater numbers after the war.
Who are women?
200
The country the Vietnamese defeated at Dien Bien Phu
What was France
200
U.S. financial aid provided to help European countries rebuild from the aftermath of WW2
What is the Marshall Plan?
200
President Eisenhower led a vast expansion of this network in order to connect the country and provide more security for the U.S.
What is the National Highway System
200
After this 13 day conflict Secretary of State Dean Rusk said they blinked first
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis
200
This court case overturned the "separate but equal" clause from Plessy vs. Ferguson.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
300
An attack in South Vietnam that convinced many Americans that the war could not be won
What is the Tet Offensive
300
It was the the theory that communism had to be stopped in places like Vietnam, lest it spread to other countries
What is the domino theory
300
Many families moved out of cities and built houses in the ____________ during the 1950s
What is the suburbs
300
This refers to the security alliance between the Soviet Union and the communist nations of Eastern Europe as a response to NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
300
This President had to send in federal troops to ensure that nine African-American children could integrate a high school in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?
400
It was the strategy of Richard Nixon to allow the South Vietnamese to take over the war in Vietnam
What is Vietnamization
400
Passed by Congress to allow the President Johnson to use military force in Vietnam
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
400
Many World War II veterans were able to obtain job training and university educations because of this government program.
What is the GI Bill?
400
This 1950s "conflict" split an Asian peninsula into North and South countries that are still separated today by a DMZ.
What is the Korean War
400
This act banned literacy tests
What is the Voting Rights Act
500
It is what the Vietnam War, Watergate, and the Pentagon Papers caused
What is distrust by Americans in their government
500
He promised that the United States would put a man on the moon by the end of the decade
Who is John F. Kennedy
500
By the end of the 1950s almost every family had one of these entertainment devices in their homes.
What are televisions
500
The Soviet invasion of this country eventually led the United States to support the mujahadeen freedom fighters, who included a young Osama bin Laden.
What is Afghanistan
500
This Amendment banned poll taxes
What is the 24th Amendment