Cold War
What Does NATO stand for?
The North Atlantic Treaty Organizatio.
What was Vietnams main Religion?
Buddhist.
What was “Little Rock Nine”
9 African American students were let into a whites only high school and were threatened if they did not leave.
Who was Rosa Parks?
A big part in the civil rights movement, she did not give up her seat in the front row of the black section of a bus to a white male who couldn’t find a seat, she was arrested.
What is the definition of Freedom Riders?
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court.
What was the ”iron curtain”?
The division between eastern and western Europe.
What happened to the president of south Vietnam?
He was shot and killed.
What does NAACP stand for?
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Who was Martin Luther King?
African American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the American civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
What is the definition of the Truman doctrine?
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy with the primary goal of containing Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War.
What was the Marshall plan?
An American initiative passed in 1948 for foreign aid to Western Europe.
How hot did it get in Vietnam during the war?
120 degrees
What were the Sit-ins of the 1960’s?
African Americans would pick public establishments and sit down at the whites only lunch counter and stay there as more and more joined.
American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
What is the definition of the Hydrogen bomb?
a second-generation nuclear weapon design. Its greater sophistication affords it vastly greater destructive power than first-generation atomic bombs, a more compact size, a lower mass or a combination of these benefits.
How was the Cold War world divided?
It was grouped into 3 political standpoints, capitalists, communists, and third world countries.
Where did the women’s peace strike take place?
Washington D.C
What was being chanted in the 1963 civil rights march?
“Pass the Bill!”
Who was Harry S. Truman?
33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as the 34th vice president.
What was the Tet Offensive?
What is Mcarthyism?
The practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.
What was burnt by students in order to protest the war?
Draft cards
What did Malcolm X preach?
A religious group that called for separation of the races called “Black Separatism”
Who was Malcolm X?
African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. He is best known for his time spent as a vocal spokesman for the Nation of Islam.
What was the G.I Bill?
Enacted by Congress in 1944, the GI Bill sent more than eight million World War II veterans to school between 1945 and 1956. It also backed home loans, gave veterans a year of unemployment benefits, and provided for veterans' medical care.