Supreme Court
This term means "separation of the races"
What is segregation
These two powers were involved in the Space Race
What is the US and the USSR
STEM
What is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics,
After WWII many americans moved out of the city and into the __.
Suburbs
NAACP
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
This section of the country was slow to accept desegregation
What is the South
The US and the USSR wanted these two types of government
What is Democracy and Communism
Acts of protest that many teachers took place in during 1970 to object to unequal pay
What is Teacher Union Strikes
This organization fought for the desegregation of school and played apart in the civil rights movement
What is the NAACP
UMW
What Is the United Mine Workers
This organization helps people who face discrimination
What is the NAACP
What was the first satellite into space?
What is Sputnik I
a movement in education post-WWII, aimed to prepare students, not intending to pursue higher education, with practical life skills and vocational training
What is the Life Adjustment Curriculum
This invention changes American culture, in 1946 there was 7,000 and by 1950 there was 50,000,000. It will go on to replace the radio as the primary source of home entertainment.
What is the Television
AFT
What is the American Federation of Teachers
Nine black students were at first denied the right to enroll at an all-white high school in this Arkansas city
What is Little Rock, AK
This is why the U.S. established the National Defense Education Act
What is to fund education in the United States?
US supreme court ruled that this policy which was prevalent in school was unconstitutional in 1954
What is racial segregation
Under this president the nation settled into a period of relative calm and prosperity.
Who is Eisenhower
UFW
What is the United Federation of Teachers
This Supreme Court case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson, thereby rejecting the "separate but equal" doctrine
What is Brown v. Board of Education
The years immediately after World War II found the nation involved in the “_____” with communism.
What is the cold war
The social practice of making a perfunctory and symbolic effort towards the equitable inclusion of members of a minority group
What is Tokenism
This Law passed in 1944 expanded access to higher education for returning veterans after WWII
What is the G.I Bill
1958 NDEA
What is the National Defense Education Act