cold war ush test

in the years following WWII, US foreign policy was primarily focused on…

containing the spread of communism

_ was taken by the US govt to help Europe’s economic recovery after WWII

creating the marshall plan

the primary reason for the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty org (NATO) in 1949 was to…

protect west europe from the soviet union

1946-1954, the House Committee on Un-American Activities and Senator Joseph McCarthy attracted public attention by investigating…

allegations of communist influences in govt

1 reason the US became involved in the vietnam war was to…

prevent the spread of communism in indochina

the domino theory was used by the US as a justification for…

participating in the vietnam war (1960-1970s)

during the 1950s, the main goal of the civil rights movement was to…

eliminate legal segregation from american life

the eisenhower doctrine (1957) was an effort by the US to…

counter the influence of the soviet union in the middle east

“NAACP challenges school segregation” these headlines are most closely associated with…

the beginning of the modern civil rights movement

in 1954, the supreme court decision in “brown v board of education of topeka” advanced the civil rights movement by…

declaring that racial segregation in public schools violated the 14th amendment (equal protection clause)