The Iron Curtain Falls
He said “an iron curtain” divided Eastern and Western Europe.
Who was Winston Churchill?
The first African-American baseball player in modern Major League Baseball.
Who was Jackie Robinson?
After the Soviets cut off West Berlin this was done by the British and Americans.
What was the Berlin Airlift?
American general put in charge of UN troops during the Korean War.
Who was Douglas MacArthur?
She refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus to a white passenger.
Who was Rosa Parks?
The leader of the Cuban revolution of 1958-59.
Who was Fidel Castro?
A state of political tension between nations without actual warfare.
What is a cold war?
A business that agrees to hire only union members.
What is a closed shop?
Deriving destructive energy from the release of atomic energy.
What is nuclear?
Country that was responsible for starting the Korean War.
What was North Korea?
Baptist preacher who organized the Montgomery bus boycott.
Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Wisconsin Senator who claimed to know of communists infiltrating the U.S. government.
Who was Joseph McCarthy?
DAILY DOUBLE – The 5 permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
What are: United States, Soviet Union (Russia), Great Britain, France & China?
The increased birth rate in the U.S. during the late 1940s and 1950s.
What was the baby boom?
They were convicted and executed for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.
Who were the Rosenbergs (Ethel & Julius)?
DAILY DOUBLE – This is the reason why the Soviets didn’t veto the UN Security Council’s decision to send forces to Korea.
What is they had walked out of the UN in protest of communist China’s exclusion.
1954 Supreme Court Case that ruled school segregation unconstitutional.
What was Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas?
Democratic candidate defeated twice by Eisenhower for president.
Who was Adlai Stevenson?
Its goal was to stop the spread of communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine or containment?
A huge Congressional tax cut and the amount of war bonds held by Americans led to this.
What is inflation?
The Nationalist Chinese set up a government in exile on this island.
What is Taiwan?
Country that invaded North Korea in October of 1950.
What was China?
High School where President Eisenhower ordered the National Guard to protect 9 black students.
Where is Little Rock High School?
Soviet Satellite launched in 1957.
What was Sputnik?
President Truman’s Secretary of State.
Who was George Marshall?
Thomas Dewey was narrowly defeated by Harry Truman in the election held this year.
When was 1948?
N.A.T.O.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
Location of the demilitarized zone in Korea.
Where is the 38th parallel?
Thurgood Marshall argued that school segregation was a violation of this amendment.
What is the 14th amendment?
Veterans were loaned money by Congress for businesses, loans, or education.
What was the G.I. Bill of Rights?