Civil Rights Movement
What women inspired the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Rosa Parks
What was the Space Race?
The competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability (orbiting the earth, landing on the moon, etc.)
What is a Proxy War?
Wars in which larger countries use smaller countries to indirectly attack each other.
What is Suburbanization?
The mass movement of families to newly built suburbs, seeking more space and better environments to raise children.
What is Medicare?
A federal health insurance program for people age 65 or older.
What Supreme Court case overturned the policy of "Separate but Equal"?
Brown v. Board of Education
What is the policy of "Containment"?
The American strategy to push back on Russia’s border expansion, and to stop communism from taking hold elsewhere in the world.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
A direct confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the presence of nuclear missiles in Cuba.
What was the Baby Boom?
The era between 1946-1964 when the United States experienced a dramatic increase in birth rates.
What did the Civil Rights Act accomplish?
It outlawed discrimination in hiring, and ended segregation in stores, restaurants, theatres, and hotels.
What Supreme Court case established the policy of "Separate but Equal"?
Plessy v. Ferguson
What was The Marshall Plan?
An American foreign policy plan which pumped $13 billion worth of supplies, machinery and food into Western Europe. The aid helped weaken the appeal of communism.
What Latin American government did the US attempt to overthrow during The Bay of Pigs Invasion?
Cuba
The Sunbelt.
The was the name given to the series of domestic programs enacted by President Lyndon B. Johnson?
The Great Society
What was one point of disagreement between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King?
The role of violence in the civil rights movements, the role of white allies in the movement.
What is McCarthyism?
The aggressive and paranoid campaign against alleged communists in the US carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy and other government officials in the period 1950–54.
What was the Cultural Revolution?
A movement launched by Chairman Mao Zedong to stay in power after the failure of the Great Leap Forward. Its stated goal was to preserve Chinese communism by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society.
What is Consumerism?
The belief that buying goods and services was key to happiness and success.
What did the Voting Right's Act accomplish?
It gave the federal government the power to force local officials to let black people register to vote. This led to dramatic changes in the South.
Who were the Freedom Riders?
A group of black and white civil rights activists who rode integrated buses going from the North to the South. They experienced much violence in the South.
Why was the Cold War considered "cold"?
The US and the USSR never engaged in direct warfare.
What was the name of the group of Arab oil-producing countries which cause the oil crisis of the 1970s?
Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC or OPEC)
What is it called when banks purposefully and systemically refuse to give loan to African Americans?
Red Lining
What were some of the benefits of the G.I. Bill
Veterans received low-interest home loans, education assistance, and job training, helping the start families.