American Cultures 2024

Richard Nixon

Defeated by JFK in 1960

Nikita Khruschev

Leader of USSR during JFK presidency

Yuri Gagarin

First person in Space

Fidel Castro

Leader of Cuba in the 1960s

Ho Chi Mihn

NV leader 1960s

Lee Harvey Oswald

JFK’s assassinator

LBJ

JFK’s VP

Berlin Wall

Symbol of iron curtain: built in 1961

Specialized forces

Delta Forces and SEALS

ICBM bases

Constructed in Cuba by USSR

Naval Quarentine

Blocked offensive weapons bound for Cuba

Bay of Pigs

CIA supported failed mission

embargo

Placed on trade in Cuba 1960-2016

Air Force One

LBJ’s inauguration place

Dealey Plaza

Location of JFK assassination

Zapruder Film

Documentary evidence of JFK death

Warren Commission

Official investigation for JFK assassination

Peace Corps

Created by Kennedy for 2nd/3rd world countries

Nov 22, 1963

JFK assassination date

Medicare

Medical care for age 65+

Medicaid

Medical care for people living in poverty

Civil Rights Act

1964 law: Banned discrimination in public places

Voting Rights Act

1965 law: Banned discriminatory practices within voting

PBS

Educational TV

Electoral College

Group responsible for electing the president

New Deal

FDR’s domestic programs

D-Day

1944 Allied Attack: Normandy

Marshall plan

Aid program to W. European nations

mcCarthyism

1950s term for accusations without evidence

Ed Sullivan

Popular TV host in the 1950s

Elvis Presely

The King of music 1950s

Francis Gary Powers

Shot down by USSR and captured in May 1960

D. Eisenhower

US President 1953-1961

John F. Kennedy

US President 1961-1963

Harry Truman

US President 1945-1953

Joseph Stalin

Soviet leader 1922-1953

M.A.D

Neither US or USSR could win WWII

Korea

Armistice reached here in 1953

Sputnik

1st satellite launched into space in October 1957

U-2

High altitude plane used for espionage

Arms Race

Competition between US and USSR: nuclear weapons

Vietmihn

Communist group in NV

Containment

US policy followed against communism

NASA

Gov. agency developed in 1958

Suburbs

Migration in America to these locations during the 1950s

Bomb shelters

Built in American basements/yards in 1950s

Beatniks

Group that rejected conformity and materialism of the 1950s

Baby boom

Generation born between 1945-1960

Republican

Political party that dominated the 1950s

White collar jobs

Formal attire jobs

Blue collar jobs

Industry/factory jobs

Rock & Roll

Genre of music born in 1950s

Highway system

Major infrastructure project approved by Ike in 1956

Automobiles

Industry that most significantly impacted life in the 1950s

Middle class

Socio-economic status that grew in the 1950s

Capitalism

Economic system based on a free market

Socialism

Economic system based on a government controls essential industries

Communism

Economic system based on no free market

Democracy

Public chooses leaders via elections

Zones of Occupations

Germany and Berlin divided by Allies into____

Cold War

Tensions between US and USSR: 1945-1949

Berlin Airlift

Effort to supply West Berlin: 1948-1949

NATO

Military alliance created in 1949

Warsaw pact

Military alliance created in 1955

Hydrogen bomb

Second generation atomic-bomb

Satellite nations

European nations under Soviet control

Fusion

Scientific process that created 2nd gen. atomic bombs

Iron Curtain

Term for division of post- WWII Europe

United Nations

Organization that defended South Korea

GI Bill

Benefits made available to veterans after WWII

Armed forces

Desegregated during EO #9981

C.I.A.

Gov. agency created by Truman to conduct espionage

NSA

Gov. agency created by Truman to conduct electronic espionage

D.O.D.

Gov. agency created to coordinate/manage the US military

Japan

Asian nation occupied by US 1945-1952

China

_______ sent troops into the Korean War to support NK

South Korea

Nation supported by the US in the Korean War

Hirohito

Emperor of Japan in WWII

Yamamoto

Japanese admiral: Pearl Harbor attack

Chester Nimitz

US Navy Admiral: WWII

Douglas MacArthur

US Army General: WWII

Island hopping

US strategy against Japan in WWII

Aircraft carriers

Most important weapon used in Pacific theater

USSArizona

Pearl Harbor memorial ship

Butan Death march

Deadly US POW march in the Philippines

Doolittle raid

Famous bombing mission on Tokyo: 1942

Battle of Midway

1st US victory against Japan in WWII

Battle of Iwo Jima

Battle w/ famous flag raising monument

Battle of Okinawa

Battle that used suicide pilots against US

Kamikaze

Suicide pilots

Hiroshima

1st city struck with atomic bomb

Nagasaki

2nd city struck with atomic bomb

Manhattan Project

Code name for US atomic bomb development

Los Alomos, NM

Location of atomic scientific research

Fission

Scientific principle of atomic bomb

Plutonium and Uranium

Fuels for atomic bomb

Dec 7, 1941

Pearl Harbor date

Sep 2, 1945

VJ Day

Churchhill

Leader of Britain

Hitler

Leader of Germany