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