Cold War & Containment
This doctrine, announced by President Truman in 1947, pledged U.S. support to countries threatened by Soviet expansion.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This ideology emphasized the role of women as homemakers and mothers in the 1950s.
What is the Cult of Domesticity?
This failed CIA-sponsored invasion of Cuba occurred in 1961 and aimed to overthrow Fidel Castro's government.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
This coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks in 1968 was a military failure but a psychological victory for the North.
What is the Tet Offensive?
This economic situation, characterized by high inflation combined with high unemployment, plagued the U.S. economy in the 1970s.
What is stagflation?
This military alliance was formed in 1949 to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.
What is NATO?
This family unit, consisting of parents and their children living together, became idealized in American culture during the 1950s.
What is the nuclear family?
This 13-day confrontation in 1962 brought the U.S. and Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war over missiles in Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The Tet Offensive damaged American morale by showing that victory would be this and complicated.
What is bloody?
This historic peace agreement was negotiated by President Carter between Israel and Egypt in 1979.
What is the Camp David Accords?
This theory suggested that if one country fell to communism, neighboring countries would follow like falling dominoes.
What is the Domino Theory?
This cultural viewpoint dominated U.S. society during the 1950s and was marked by a desire for stability and uniformity.
What is the Age of Conformity?
This foreign policy strategy involves pushing dangerous events to the brink of conflict to achieve advantageous outcomes.
What is brinkmanship?
This year was marked by political assassinations, civil unrest, and anti-war protests, including the Tet Offensive.
What is 1968?
This diplomatic crisis occurred in 1979 when Iranian students seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and held 52 American diplomats hostage for 444 days.
What is the Iran Hostage Crisis?
This conflict began in 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea and ended in 1953 with Korea divided along this parallel.
What is the 38th parallel?
The nuclear family model was a cultural phenomenon that steered Americans to desire a family with two children, preferably one boy and this.
What is one girl?
The Bay of Pigs invasion failed to weaken the Cuban government and failed to accomplish to do this to Fidel Castro.
What is assassinate (him)?
This series of spontaneous demonstrations by the LGBTQ+ community in 1969 is considered the catalyst for the modern gay rights movement.
What is Stonewall?
This economic policy under President Reagan was based on reducing tax rates and theorized that benefits to the wealthy would "trickle down" to the rest of the economy.
What is Reaganomics (or Trickle-down economics)?
This military doctrine adopted by the Eisenhower administration threatened to use nuclear weapons in response to any communist aggression.
What is Massive Retaliation?
This book by Betty Friedan, published in 1963, challenged the idea that women could find fulfillment only through child-rearing and homemaking.
What is the Feminine Mystique?
President Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States and served until his assassination in this year.
What is 1963?
This federal law was passed in 1973 to limit the president's power to commit armed forces to foreign combat without congressional approval.
What is the War Powers Act?
This political scandal involved Reagan administration officials secretly facilitating the sale of weapons to Iran to fund the Contras in Nicaragua.
What is Iran-Contra?