Civil rights movement
Who was widely know for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955, sparking a major civil rights boycott?
Rosa Parks
This attack brought the U.S. into the war.
Attack on Pearl Harbor
This race involved landing on the Moon.
The space race
This battle was the turning point of the war.
Battle of Saratoga
This president led the Union.
Abraham Lincoln
This law banned discrimination in public places and jobs.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This event began the war in Europe in 1939.
Germany invaded Poland
This wall symbolized the divide between East and West.
The Berlin Wall
This act angered colonists by taxing paper goods.
Stamp Act
This issue was the main cause of the war.
Slavery
This protest began after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
This leader led Britain during most of the war.
Winston Churchill
This rivalry was between the U.S. and this nation.
The Soviet Union
This general led the Continental Army.
George Washington
This document freed enslaved people in Confederate states.
Emancipation Proclamation
This march pushed for jobs and freedom in 1963.
March on Washington
This battle was the Allied invasion of Normandy.
D‑Day
This policy aimed to stop the spread of communism.
Containment
This document declared the colonies free from Britain.
Declaration of Independence
This general surrendered to end the war.
Robert E. Lee
This group used sit‑ins at lunch counters to fight segregation.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
What cities were the atomic bombs dropped to end the war.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This crisis brought the world close to nuclear war in 1962.
Cuban Missile Crisis
This event began the fighting in 1775.
Battles of Lexington and Concord
This battle was the war’s bloodiest and a major turning point.
Battle of Gettysburg