| Cold War Begins | Kennedy & Johnson | The Vietnam War | The Civil Rights Movement | Potpourri |
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What is the Marshall Plan?
A scheme to supply economic support to post-war Europe to bring stability (and avoid communist influence)
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What is the Berlin Wall?
The dividing line that Khrushchev built to keep people from fleeing from east to west
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What is the Tet Offensive?
The turning point of the Vietnam War
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Who is Rosa Parks?
When asked to get up, she said "no."
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Who is Cesar Chavez?
He said "To us, the boycott of grapes was the most near-perfect of nonviolent struggles"
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Who is General MacArthur?
He publicly disagreed with President Truman about spreading the Korean War to China (and lost his job for it)
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What is the Great Society?
Johnson's plan for ending poverty and racial injustice
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What are doves and hawks?
Those who opposed US involvement in the Vietnam conflict and those that supported more use of American force were known by these names
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What is Brown v. Board of Education?
In this case, Justice Warren stated that segregated schools were not and never could be equal
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What is Kent State?
Four students were killed by National Guard soldiers on this college campus in Ohio
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What is the containment policy?
the US strategy developed by George Kennen to fight the new Cold War
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What is Medicare?
Provided medical insurance to elderly Americans
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What is the Tonkin Gulf Resolution?
Mysterious events that probably didn't happen allowed Johnson to acquire this "blank check" from Congress to escalate the conflict in Vietnam
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What is Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee?
What does SNCC stand for?
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Who are Julius and Ethel Rosenbergs?
Jewish radical parents that were executed for espionage
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What is the Warsaw Pact?
NATO for communist countries
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Who are Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro?
The three world leaders that faced off during the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Who is Mayor Richard Daley?
The Mayor of Chicago that unleashed the force of the police department against peaceful anti-war protesters during the 1968 Democratic National Convention
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Who is James Meredith?
He was supported in his application process to the University of Mississippi by President Kennedy
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Who are the Beatles?
John, Paul, George, and Ringo
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What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?
A pledge that the US would defend the Middle East against an attack by any communist country
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What is Mali?
JFK created the Peace Corps to provide American volunteers to assist developing countries and so Mr. Marshall went to serve in this country
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What is the Pentagon Papers?
Scandalous secret documents that revealed how the Johnson administration sought to deceive the American public about their goals and actions in Vietnam
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Who is Fannie Lou Hamer?
She represented the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in a televised speech at the Democratic National Convention
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What is Vietnamization?
Nixon reduced the number of American soldiers in Vietnam to 25,000 (from 500,000) largely through this policy of increasing involvement by South Vietnamese soldiers
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