Civil Rights
This part of the 14th Amendment says states cannot deny equal protection under the law.
What is the Equal Protection Clause?
This surprise attack led by Douglas MacArthur became a turning point in the Korean War.
What was the Inchon Landing?
This theory claimed that if one Asian country became communist, nearby countries would follow.
What is the Domino Theory?
This militant branch of the African National Congress was associated with Nelson Mandela.
What was Spear of the Nation?
This famous 1963 speech was delivered by Martin Luther King Jr.
What is “I Have a Dream”?
These segregation laws kept Black Americans separated and unequal in the South.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This no-man’s-land separates North and South Korea.
What is the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)?
This 1970 military operation expanded the Vietnam War into Cambodia.
What was the Cambodian Incursion?
Black South Africans needed this document to travel during apartheid.
What was a Passbook?
This informal debate between Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev took place in Moscow.
What was the Kitchen Debate?
These activists challenged segregation on interstate buses.
Who were the Freedom Riders?
This communist government ruled North Korea.
What is the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea?
This event involved U-2 spy planes photographing Soviet missile sites in Cuba.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This South African leader became famous for fighting apartheid.
Who was Nelson Mandela?
This amendment promised the U.S. would not annex Cuba.
What was the Teller Amendment?
This executive order desegregated the U.S. military.
What is Executive Order 9981?
This Soviet economic slowdown lasted from the late 1960s through the 1980s.
What was the Era of Stagnation?
This policy of nuclear fear meant both sides would be destroyed in a nuclear war.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)?
The only country ruled by communist dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, that resisted the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 by force.
What is Romania?
This amendment allowed the U.S. to intervene in Cuba if necessary.
What was the Platt Amendment?
This anti-desegregation movement fought against school integration in the South.
What is Massive Resistance?
What was the Death Strip?
This senator delivered the “Enemies Within” speech during the Second Red Scare.
Answer: Who was Joseph McCarthy?
Who was Joseph McCarthy?
This nickname was given to the prison school where Mandela and others learned together.
What was Mandela University?
This bus driver humiliated Rosa Parks years before her famous arrest.
Who was James Blake?