Period 8 & 9 APUSH

The court case that ended segregation in public schools

• Brown v. Board

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Miranda v. Arizona

• Engel v. Vitale

• Tinker v. DesMoines

LBJ's plan for increased domestic spending on anti-poverty & anti-racism programs

• New Deal

• New Frontier

• Great Society

• Welfare for All

• Southern Strategy

The overall strategy of the US during the Cold War

• Truman Doctrine

• Containment

• Marshall Plan

• Domino Theory

What organization was formed to pursue world peace in 1945?

• United Nations

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• League of Nations

Nixon's policy of relaxing tensions with the USSR

• Detenté

• Containment

• Domino Theory

• Brinksmanship

This Civil Rights Legislation outlawed Housing Segregation

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Civil Rights Act of 1968

• Civil Rights Act of 1965

• Civil Rights Act of 1967

The controversial event that led to the US directly intervening in Vietnam.

• Gulf of Tonkin

• Tet Offensive

• Operation Rolling Thunder

• My Lai Massacre

Who built the Berlin Wall?

• Soviet Union

• East Germany

• West Germany

• China

How did the US respond to finding out that the Soviets had missiles in Cuba?

• They sent the Air Force to bomb Cuba
• They began placing missiles in the Soviet Union.
• They placed a naval blockade around Cuba.
• They invaded Cuba and the Soviet Union.

In the 1950s, the United States became involved in the Vietnam War. Why did the United States become involved in this war?

• to prevent the collapse of the government of North Vietnam
• to stop Vietnam from taking over Hong Kong
• to stop the spread of communism to South Vietnam
• to prevent attacks against United States shipping