History ~ Cold War

Marshall Plan

$ spent to help rebuild European countries after WWll.

Truman Doctrine

400m to support Greece and Turkey so they don’t fall to communism. We built missile bases in Greece and Turkey to the Soviet Union.

Brinksmanship / Massive Retaliation

Use military weapons to bargain to get wishes fulfilled. Cut the military and increase nuclear weapons. Nuclear = Countries obey.

Containment

Keep European countries from communism

Buffer Zone

Area of protection

Domino Theory

If one country falls to communism then the rest will, so that is why we have the containment plan.

White-Flight

Movement of white families from cities to suburbs.

Baby Boom

A large increase in births after WWll in U.S.

Interstate Highway Act

A law that built highway for defense and travel.

National Defense in Education Act

A law that provided funding to schools for math and science.

Ho Chi Min

The communist leader of North Vietnam

Igor Gouzenko

The Wisconsin Senator who gained political power by accusing government and military officials of being communist sympathizers

Rosa Parks

The African American female whose refusal to give up her bus seat sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott

LIttle Rock 9

The group of African American students who required U.S. troop escorts to integrate a high school after the governor refused to comply

The United Nations

The organization created after WWII to promote global peace and prevent future wars

The House Un-American Activities Committee

The bureaucratic organization that investigated and held trials for the "Hollywood Ten"

Jazz Music

Music of the 1950’s that helped to ease racial tensions and was widely popular with young people.

Detente

A french term that showed an easing of tensions between the U.S. and communist countries during the Cold War.

Gulf of Tonkin

An attack on the USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy that allowed for President Johnson to send American troops into Vietnam.

Sputnik

The Soviet satellite that launched the space race between the U.S. and USSR.

The 1896 Supreme Court ruling that established the "separate but equal" doctrine was _______, which was later overturned in 1954 by ______.

Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education

The ______ provided returning World War II veterans with federal aid to attend college, start businesses, and buy homes.

GI Bill

The _______ was a 1962 standoff between the U.S. and the Soviet Union that is considered the closest the world ever came to nuclear war.

Cuban Missile Crisis

In the 1950s, the fastest-growing industry in the United States was ________.

Automobile industry

About 85 percent of new home construction in the 1950s took place in the ________.

Suburbs

The _____ allowed for continued military escalation in Vietnam under President Lyndon B. Johnson

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution