The woman who was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus.
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
The country that saved South Korea from communism in the Korean War.
Who is the United States?
100
The name of the first satellite to orbit the earth that was launched by the Soviet Union.
What is Sputnik 1?
100
This is the term for creating a seperation of races.
What is segregation?
100
The policy of giving economic aid to countries who were fighting communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
200
The man who protested the arrest of Rosa Parks and urged all black citizens to boycott the Montgomery Bus System.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
200
The struggle of black Americans to gain equality was called the ___________ movement.
What is the civil rights movement?
200
The name of the spacecraft that took three American astronaut to the moon.
What is Apollo 11?
200
These are the laws that African Americans struggled to live under.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
200
This was the committee that was formed where delegates from all over the world listen to problems and try to find peaceful solutions in order to avoid war.
What is the United Nations?
300
The president who was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
Who is president John F. Kennedy?
300
The type of war that results when countries do not go to war, but have tensions and disputes between their governments.
What is a cold war?
300
This is what the astronauts from Apollo 11 left on the moon.
What is an American flag?
300
This is the tax that required people to pay money to vote.
What are poll taxes?
300
The reason poll taxes were popular in the south.
What is to keep poor blacks and whites from voting?
400
The communist dictator of Cuba.
Who is Fidel Castro?
400
This war last for 2 years and ended when a cease-fire agreement was signed.
What is the Korean War?
400
This country was the world's technological leader during the Cold War.
What is the United States?
400
The term for people who flee their country to find refuge, or safety, in another.
What are refugees?
400
These are some difficulties that the Vietnamese refugees faced.
What are dehydration, starvation, and drowning?
500
The president who angered the American people because they felt he was covering up the break-ins in the Watergate Investigation.
Who is President Nixon?
500
This act opened all hotels, restaurants, and other businesses to people of all races.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
500
These two countries were in a race to see who could land a man on the moon.
Who are the United States and the Soviet Union?
500
The term for a group pardon by the government where they are forgiven of an offense.
What is amnesty?
500
This was what we call the time in history when President Kennedy discovered that the Soviet Union had placed missiles in Cuba that were aimed at the United States.