1950's
1960's
Civil Rights
Acts and Amendments
Terms
100
President from 1952-1960
Eisenhowert
100
Shot in Dallas
John Kenedy
100
Led marches to Selma and Washington DC
MLK
100

prohibited discrimination in public places

Civil Rights Act of 1964
100
The population surge from 1945-1960
Baby Boom
200
Eisenhower's transportation plan
interstate highway system
200
Result of the USSR trying to put nuclear weapons on an Island near Florida
Cuban Missle Crisis
200
Leader of the Nation of Islam
Malcolm X
200
Ended the poll tax
Voting Rights Act of 1965 or 24th Amendment
200
Young protesters of the 1960's counterculter
Hippies
300
War that ended in a cease-fire along the 38th parallel
Korean War
300
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution allowed president Johnson to send troops to ________

Vietnam

300
Helped start the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks
300
Lowered the voting Age to 18
26th Ammendment
300
Johnson's plan for America which included many social programs
Great Society
400
Levittown and other _________ grew during the 1950's as people moved out of the cities
Suburbs
400
Became president with the promise of getting America out of the Vietnam war
Nixon
400
First black Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall
400
Limited the president to 2 terms
22nd Ammendment
400

Term for non-violent resistance used by MLK, Rosa Parks, and others

Hint:  C______ D____________

Civil Disobidience
500
Began in the 1950's after the USSR put a man in space.
Space Race.
500
Shot down over the USSR
U2 Spyplane
500
Court case that ended segregation in schools
Brown vs. Board of Education
500
Overturned the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and states that congress must officially notified before the President sends troops
War Powers Act
500

The USA vs. the USSR

Threatening each with nuclear weapons but not firing them.

They only fought "proxy" wars through supporting other countries.  

Cold War
M
e
n
u