EWU Chapters 24-25 definitions

Cold war

The prolonged struggle for political economic and military dominance between the USSR and the US without direct engagement into war.

Truman Doctrine

A pledge made by senator Truman to protect democratic countries and contain the expansion of communism which was the cornerstone of American foreign policy throughout the Cold War.

NATO

A peacetime military alliance, that established a collective security pact which viewed that if one member was attacked, it was an attack on all

House Un-American Activities Committee

Committee established to investigate domestic communism, which they tied to the Roosevelt admin.

McCarthyism

an era in which Joseph McCarthy campaigned against communism, by installing fear within Americans and falsely accused individuals of being communists.

Eisenhower Doctrine

Pledge that gave the President a free hand to US military forces in the Middle East against armed aggression from Communist Nations

Servicemen’s Readjustment Act

Act that provided veterans with financial aid and education opportunities to adjust to civilian life

Brown v. Board of Education Topeka, Kansas

The overturning of Plessy v. Ferguson on the 17 of May, getting rid of the “separate but equal” ideology. The brown undercut foundation for segregation, however the brown led to made more battles over segregation, leading to a follow up in 1955 which left enforcement of brown to federal district courts in the south which were predominantly white. This ultimately lead to a delay in the implantation of the brown. 

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Martin Luther King and a like-minded group of southern black ministers formed the SCLC to spread nonviolent protest throughout the region.

Little Rock Nine

A group of nine African American students who enrolled at Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas in 1957, facing significant resistance and intervention by the National Guard.

Systematic Racism

In the North and West, African Americans were faced with a more subtle form of jim crow - systematic racism, inspired the civil rights movement, pursued equal rights for themselves