Write a paragraph for each term and tell me who, what, when, and where if relevant. Most importantly, you must explain why the term is significant in the context of this course.
Containment
George F. Kennan
The Truman Doctrine
Election of 1948
The Marshall Plan
Berlin Blockade
North Atlantic Treaty
Senator Joseph McCarthy
“White Flight”
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
SCLC
Massive Resistance
The “New Frontier”
CORE
SNCC
James Meredith
Medgar Evers
Sit-In Movement
Freedom Rides
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Thurgood Marshall
The “Great Society”
Bay of Pigs Invasion Cuban Missile Crisis Ngo Dinh Diem
Election of 1964
Tonkin Gulf Resolution Tet Offensive
Poor Peoples Campaign
The Black Panthers
Election of 1968
Affirmative Action
26th Amendment Vietnamization
Stagflation
Equal Rights Amendment
Watergate
Roe v. Wade
Reaganomics
Swann v. Mecklenburg Board of Education
Star Wars
Mujahideen
“The Great Satan”
Black Lives Matter
Busing in Boston NAFTA
The Patriot Act
The Great Recession
Obergefell v. Hodges
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