Part III: Terms: Match the term with its definition.

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University where national guardsmen fired on protesters, killing four

Kent State

Committee in the House of Representatives that investigated communist activities

HUAC

Allowed companies to distribute products and services through retail outlets Interstate

Highway Act

Refused to answer questions about suspected connections to communism

Hollywood Ten

Convicted of perjury for lying to Congress about his affiliation with a former communist Alger Hiss

Alger Hiss

Johnson's vision for the federal gov't to provide help for struggling citizens

Great Society

Assassinated a US president

Lee Harvey Oswa

Protest to test the Supreme Court decision to de-segregate interstate buses

Freedom Ride

Effort to register African Americans to vote in Mississippi

Freedom Summer

A law that granted benefits to war veterans

GI Bill of Rights

Americans who supported strong military action to end the Vietnam War

Hawks

The artificial barrier between Western European & Eastern European communist

Iron Curtain

Trained young men & women in employment skills in order to lift them out of poverty

Job Corps

US President during the Cuban Missile Crisis

John F. Kennedy

Convicted of espionage & passing nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union Julius & Ethel Rosenberg

Julius & Ethel Rosenberg

US Senator who made unsupported claims that communists had infiltrated the gov't MCCARTHY

MCCARTHY

Declaration that the US would aid all countries threatened by communism

Marshall Plan

Using unrestricted force against an opponent to prevent further aggression

Massive Retaliation

Federal program to provide low-cost health insurance to poor Americans

Medicaid

Federal program to provide basic health insurance to those over 65

Medicare

Both the US & USSR would build enough nuclear weapons to destroy one another

Mutually Assured Destruction

Massacre of Vietnamese civilians by US soldiers; initially covered up by the government

My Lai

International organization formed by Western countries to protect against communism

NATO

Commander of Allied Forces during the Korean War.

Douglas MacArthur

State Department official who developed the foreign policy idea of "Containment"George Kennan

George Kennan

Americans who believed the US should withdraw from the Vietnam War immediately

doves

Shipment of supplies in response to the Soviet blockade

BERLIN AIRLIFT

Belief that by threatening to go to the brink of war could stop the spread of communism

BRINKMANSHIP

Period of time after WWII when many people married and started families

Baby Boom

Political party for African Americans

Black Panthers

List of persons who were not hired due to their suspected communist connections

Blacklist

To stop the spread of communism by keeping it within its boundaries

CONTAINMENT

Buying as much as one can, much of it on credit

Consumerism

Leader of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Crisis Fidel Castro

Segregation that exists by practice/tradition De Facto Segregation

De Facto Segregation

Segregation by law De Jure Segregation

De Jure Segregation

Leader of the USSR-Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Nikita Khrushchev

A household consisting of a mother, father, and their children

Nuclear Family

The fear that communists were conspiring to destroy the American way of life

Red Scare

Attorney General for the Kennedy administration

Robert Kennedy

US military raids on villages intending to root out Viet Cong

Search and Destroy

Made it illegal to teach or advocate the overthrow of the US government Smith Act

Smith Act

Program that offered financial aid to Greece &Turkey

Truman Doctrine

nternational organization of Eastern European countries led by the Soviet Union

WARSAW PACT

Federal programs supported by Johnson that sought to aid low-income Americans

War on Poverty


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