| THE U.S. AND THE COLD WAR |
| #1 |
This offered economic assistance to non-communist governments. |
What is the Marshall Plan? |
| #2 |
One judge went so far as to say that these alleged spies had 'caused' the Korean War. |
Who were the Rosenbergs? |
| #3 |
This tenet committed the United States to fighting communism anywhere. |
What is the Truman Doctrine? |
| #4 |
This called for a massive increase in U.S. miltary forces. |
What is NSC-68? |
| #5 |
This legislation stated that union leaders had to swear an oath that they were not Communists. |
What is the Taft-Hartley Act? |
| AN AFFLUENT SOCIETY |
| #1 |
In 1954, this Supreme Court case found that 'separate but equal' was unconstitutional. |
What is Brown v. Board of Education? |
| #2 |
As a result of this, the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public transportation was illegal. |
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott? |
| #3 |
From 1950-1970, the establishment of these hardened racial divisions in American life. |
What are suburbs? |
| #4 |
He was inspired by the teachings of Gandhi. |
Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.? |
| #5 |
In response to the Brown decision and the growth of civil rights, southern states did this. |
What is flying the Confederate flag over state capitol buildings? |
| THE SIXTIES |
| #1 |
In 1964, Congress passed this act which prohibited both racial and sexual discrimination in employment and public institutions. |
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964? |
| #2 |
This civil rights leader insisted that blacks have economic and political autonomy. |
Who was Malcolm X? |
| #3 |
This law empowered federal officials to oversee voter registration. |
What is the 1965 Voting Rights Act? |
| #4 |
Participants of this effort were eventually attacked by the local KKK. |
What are the Freedom Rides? |
| #5 |
This authorized the preisdent to take 'all necessary measures to repel armed attack' in Vietnam. |
What is the Gulf of Tonkin resolution? |
| TRIUMPH OF CONSERVATISM |
| #1 |
This was based on supply-side economics. |
What is Reaganomics? |
| #2 |
Created in 1979 by Virginia minister Jerry Falwell, this was devoted to 'pro-life, pro-family, and pro-America' candidates. |
What is Moral Majority? |
| #3 |
This paved the way for Nixon's resignation in August 1974. |
What is the Watergate scandal? |
| #4 |
This is what the burglars at the Watergate apartment complex were breaking into. |
What was the Democratic Party's headquarters? |
| #5 |
This was the greatest scandal of the Reagan administration. |
What is the Iran-Contra affair? |
| TRUE OR FALSE |
| #1 |
The increase in the number of working women in the 1950s included a dramatic rise in the number of married women in the workforce. |
What is true? |
| #2 |
By 1952, 1 million households had television sets, a number that would more than double 3 years later. |
What is false? |
| #3 |
The North Atlantic Treaty was the first long-term military alliance betweeen the United States and Europe since the American Revolution. |
What is true? |
| #4 |
As Martin Luther King, Jr., came to realize the difficulty of combating the economic plight of black America, King's language became more and more radical. |
What is true? |
| #5 |
Opponents of the ERA defined freedom for women as within the public sphere. |
What is false? |
