1950s
TRUMAN
CIVIL RIGHTS
JFK
FOREIGN POLICY
100
Many couples credited this invention with easing baby-sitting, entertainment & financial problems & with bringing families closer
What is television?
100
an action taken by Truman that showed his support for civil rights
What is integration of the military?
100
this sparked the Civil Rights Movement
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
100
why Kennedy was not successful in gaining civil rights for African Americans
What is the lack of a mandate?
100
the area of Kennedy's "New Frontier" in which he was most successful
What is the space program?
200
this created a new middle class
What is the G.I. Bill?
200
this declared an 80-day cooling-off period during which strikers had to return to work
What is the Taft-Hartley Act?
200
the court case overturned by Brown v. Board of Education
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
200
the event that led to MLK Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speach
What is the march on Washington?
200
established to investigate the assassination of JFK
What is the Warren Commission?
300
term used to describe the prosperity of the 1950s
What is affluent?
300
the part of Truman's Fair Deal that was never passed
What is a national health insurance program?
300
event in which President Eisenhower sent in the National Guard to ensure African American students could attend a white high school
What is Little Rock Nine?
300
the issue being addressed in "Freedom Summer"
What is voting?
300
this event hurt Kennedy's reputation
What is the Bay of Pigs?
400
the main reason for the 1956 Federal-Aid Highway Act
What is the evacuation of major cities in the event of nuclear attack?
400
this event sparked the space race
What is the Sputnik?
400
this civil rights organization allowed young people to participate
What is SNCC?
400
this amendment outlawed the poll tax
What is the 24th Amendment?
400
this event brought us to the brink of a nuclear war
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
500
how the work force changed after WWII
What are service (white-collar) jobs?
500
passed to improve science and math instruction in schools
What is the National Defense Education Act?
500
what right was being tested in the "Freedom Rides"
What is the integration of interstate buses?
500
A militant African American who opposed integration & passive resistance
Who is Malcolm X?
500
Kennedy's Containment policy that applied to Latin America
What is the Alliance for Progress?
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