social studies cards about cold war
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- Battle of dien bien phu
- 1954-battle where the french got slaughtered. they pulled out of vietnam
- Ho Chi Mihn
- leader of communist north korea. he was the leader of viet mihn (korean army)
- Results of Dien bein phu
- vietnam was divided in half-france threatened to drop out of NATO. US steps into vietnam to help france
- John foster dulles
- secrety of state-wanted to push USSR to the brink of war
- SEATO
- south east asian treaty-US, GB, AUSTRIA, FRANCE, NEW ZEALAND, PAKISTAN, PHILIPEANS, THAILAND
- Brown vs board of ed
- "seperate but equal is not fair"-overturned Plessy vs ferguson
- METO
- middle eastern treaty organization
- Thurgood marshall
- argued brown vs board-he was the first african american supreme court justice
- Little rock
- national guard escorts black students into first integration of schools
- Southern manifesto
- 100 southern state senators signed this-it said we will not allow integration in the south
- Montgomery bus boycott
- rosa parks starts the boycott of a bus company-martin luther king comes to help her
- U-2
- spy plane that got shot down over USSR-eisenhower denies it-cold war tension gets worse
- Soviets launch Sputnik
- unmanned satelite-US starts NASA
- Operation paperclip
- we bring german scientists to our counrty to help us with space exploration
- National defense education act
- we wanted teachers to produce kids that excelled in science and math
- Eisenhower
- he was for private business-wanted to reduce the size of the government
- Senator McCarthy
- he was exposed by tv-no one liked him because he was brutal
- Earl warren
- head justice of supreme court during brown vs board of education
- Suez Canal
- who ever controlls this canal controlls a lot of oil-egypt was fighting England for control. US and USSR go to the UN and ask for fighting to stop-fighting stops
- Adlei stevenson
- candidate for democrats-lost to eisenhower
- nikita kruschev
- took over USSR after stalin
- Truman, eisenhower
- was president when korean war started-eisenhower was president when it ended
- Palestinians
- they are arabs and didnt like that Isreal was being made on their holy land
- Betty freedman
- wrote feminan mystique
- Our gifts to the french
- While they were in vietnam the US provided 80% of the wars finances