World War II
These countries borrowed weapons and war materials from the United States on a Cash-and-Carry basis.
Who are Great Britain and France? (The Allies)
This 1955 event sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, as Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus.
What is the arrest of Rosa Parks?
The Cold War conflict in this Southeast Asian country, in which the U.S. intervened to stop the spread of communism, ended with the fall of Saigon in 1975.
What is the Vietnam War?
This was the first satellite launched into space, marking the start of the Space Race in 1957.
What is Sputnik?
This term refers to the policy of preventing the spread of communism by providing economic and military aid to vulnerable countries.
What is containment?
This 1941 naval battle in the Pacific saw the Japanese attack a U.S. naval base, leading to the U.S. entry into World War II.
What is the Attack on Pearl Harbor?
This Supreme Court decision in 1954 declared that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This international organization sent troops to South Korea to fight against the North during the Korean War.
What is the United Nations?
: This U.S. space agency was created in 1958 to coordinate space exploration efforts.
What is NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)?
The buffer zone standing between communist East Europe and Democratic Western Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
He was the U.S. President who made the decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
This U.S. foreign policy was criticized for focusing on stopping communism while ignoring civil rights abuses at home.
What is the policy of containment?
This controversial U.S. military tactic, used heavily in Vietnam, involved the widespread use of herbicides to destroy jungle cover and crops used by the Viet Cong.
What is Agent Orange?
This type of bomb, developed by the U.S. in the early 1950s, was much more powerful than the atomic bomb and used hydrogen fusion to create massive explosions.
What is the hydrogen bomb (H-bomb)?
This event, which took place in 1948-1949, saw the Soviet Union blockade this city's access to supplies, prompting the U.S. and its allies to organize an airlift.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This minority group was interned in camps on the West Coast of the U.S. during World War II due to fear of espionage and loyalty to Japan.
Who are Japanese Americans?
In the late 1960s, this movement, focused on Black pride and self-determination, grew out of the civil rights movement and sought to address economic inequality and racial injustice
What is the Black Power Movement?
This 1969 policy, introduced by President Richard Nixon, aimed to gradually withdraw U.S. troops from Vietnam and transfer the fighting to South Vietnamese forces.
What is "Vietnamization"?
This 1962 event brought the world to the brink of nuclear war after the Soviet Union placed nuclear missiles in this country.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This 1991 event marked the official dissolution of the Soviet Union, ending the Cold War.
What is the collapse of the Soviet Union?
This famous American symbol was used to encourage women to join the workforce during the war.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
This event in 1961, where African American activists rode buses through the South to challenge segregation in interstate travel, was met with violent resistance.
What are the Freedom Rides?
The Korean War and the Vietnam War were both part of this larger ideological conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union.
What is the Cold War?
Signed in 1972, this treaty between the U.S. and the Soviet Union limited the number of nuclear missile launchers each side could possess.
What is the SALT I (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) Treaty?