Civil Rights Leaders
Who was the leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?
MLK Jr
What was the Soviet Union's plan to prevent travel from Western Europe into Soviet territory?
Iron Curtain
What was the operation to airdrop supplies into West Berlin after it was cut off from ground supply lines by the Soviet Union?
Berlin Airlift
Who's murder was heavily covered by international media and led to a more serious conversation about Civil Rights?
Emmitt Till
What outlawed segregation in schools
Brown v. Board of Education
Who refused to give up her front row seat on a bus leading to bus boycotts?
Rosa Parks
What is massive retaliation?
If you shoot a nuke we will shoot all of our nukes at you
Which war involved draft riots, mistreatment of veterans, and poor leadership of politicians
Vietnam War
What happened at the Greensboro Sit In?
Several black people sat at a counter in a whites only restaurant, they were harrassed until police arrived and arrested them
What outlawed discriminatory voting practices like poll taxes and literacy tests?
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Which man advocated for armed self defense, equality by any means necessary, and black supremacy?
Malcom X
What was the first thing the USA did to prevent the spread of communism after WWII? (300)
Describe it (300)
Marshall Plan
Gave money to European countries to rebuild if they did not have communism
What was the reason Nixon had to resign
Watergate Scandal
What event did Rosa Park's refusal to give up her seat lead to?
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Made discrimination based on race, gender, religion, and national origin illegal
Who led the march from Selma to Montgomery to protest police brutality?
John Lewis
What war saw the desegregation of the military?
Korean War
Describe Vietnamization 400
Was it successful? 100
train south Vietnamese soldiers and remove US soldiers from Vietnam
No
Describe the Little Rock Crisis
riots as black students attempted to enter a previously all white school for the first time
What really racist guy inadvertently helped pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Bull Conner
Who was the lead attorney for Brown in the Brown v. Board Court case?
Thurgood Marshall
Describe the Truman Doctrine
contain communism and prevent its spread, allow already communist countries to have it
Describe the Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuba becomes communist, anti-communist Cubans flee to Florida and try to retake Cuba from communists, they lose badly, Soviet Union sends missiles to Cuba, almost nuclear war
Why were protestors led by John Lewis marching from Selma to Montgomery
police brutality
What President signed most of the civil rights legislation during the 1960s?
Lyndon B. Johnson