The Cold War Begins
This was the competition between the United States and USSR to get the most nuclear weapons.
What is the Arms Race?
This person was a leading figure during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, refusing to give up her seat.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This person was the leader of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the Cold War.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
This was a policy to keep communism contained within the USSR.
What is containment?
This Court Case made interracial marriage legal in the United States.
What is Loving v. Virginia?
Worth Double Points!
This group was formed in response to NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This person had a dream. They organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott and participated in the March on Washington.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
This person was president for the dropping of the atomic bombs in 1945.
Who is President Harry S. Truman?
This group that still exists today was created to ensure that World War does not occur again.
What is the United Nations?
This strategy involved dropping supplies over an Eastern German city.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This was a group of allies that formed together to fight against communism and the USSR.
What is NATO?
This non-violent protest took place at a lunch counter in North Carolina, protesting the 'Whites-only' section.
What is the Greensboro Sit-in?
This general went on to become president of the United States.
Who is President Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Worth Double Points!
These are "independent" nations that are secretly controlled by a larger, more powerful country.
What are satellite nations?
This was the reaction of actors and directors towards McCarthyism.
What was the Hollywood Backlash?
Worth Double Points!
Name two ways that the United States and the Soviet Union were different.
What are multiple answers?
Democracy/communism, capitalism, president/dictator, quality of life, NATO/Warsaw Pact, etc.
Name 2 events during the Civil Rights Movement that pushed the country from Segregation to Integration.
What are multiple answers?
Brown v. Board, March on Washington, Selma, Greensboro, Assassinations of MLK and Malcolm X, etc.
Name 1 event that majorly affected a specific group of people living in America during the Cold War.
What are multiple answers?
Korean War, McCarthyism, Arms Race, etc.
These are reasons that we call the Korean War the 'Forgotten War'.
What are multiple answers?
Right after World War II, right before Vietnam, not very popular, etc.
Name one of the main reasons that the Berlin Wall fell?
What are multiple answers?
The USSR collapsing, guilt, pressure from other countries, etc.