Cold War to 1965
Cold War after 1965
Civil Rights Movement
Culture & Politics
Postwar Economics
MR. GRAHAM'S CHALLENGE
100
This Wisconsin Senator threatened his political opponents by accusing them of being communist agents.
Joseph McCarthy
100
This Soviet Satellite scared Americans who thought it was watching them.
Sputnik
100
This was Malcom X's famous quote.
By any means necessary.
100
This was Richard Nixon's plan for winning over southern whites disaffected by the Democratic Party's embrace of Civil Rights.
The Southern Strategy
100
This landmark 1944 legislation provided returning World War II veterans with benefits such as low-interest home loans and tuition assistance.
GI Bill
100
While not named after any civil rights movement, this super hero has become synonymous with black empowerment.
Black Panther
200
These three country's occupations zones became West Germany.
Britain, France, USA
200
This was the policy under Nixon to build better relationships with communist countires.
Detente
200
Dr. King was inspired by these three people.
1. Jesus
2. Gandhi
3. Henry David Thoreau
200
Yippies was a nickname for this movement/political party.
Youth International Party
200
This invention helped spur the consumerism of the postwar economy.
T.V.
200
This Catholic Civil Rights leader was one of Milwaukee's greatest civil rights champions.
Father James Groppi
300
These were the two concessions the US made with the USSR to end the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1. Remove Nukes from Turkey
2. Promise not to invade Cuba
300
This supply route outside of Vietnam was extensively bomb by the United States during the Vietnam War.
Ho Chi Minh Trail
300
This was Dr. King's next focus was on after the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. (Two correct answers)
Poor People's Campaign OR Antiwar Vietnam Campaign
300
These were the academics and students who preceded the hippies.
Beatniks
300
Suburbanization was in part fueled by this government act.
The Interstate Highway Act
300
Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman of the Yippies made a mockery of this House of Representatives group in 1967.
HUAC (House Unamerican Activities Committee)
400
This was the original dividing line between North and South Korea.
38th Parallel
400
This treaty brokered peace between Israel and Egypt, ensuring that the Middle East would not become a Cold War front.
Camp David Accords
400
This was the effort by young people to register African American in the South in 1964 which was met by much violence by Southern whites who viewed them as carpetbaggers.
Project Freedom Summer
400
This was the term given to conservative voters who were not in favor of the many new social movements of the 1960s and 1970s.
Silent Majority
400
This 1947 law restricted the power of labor unions by banning closed shops and allowing states to pass right-to-work laws.
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400
The Soviets sent this dog into space, making it the first animal in space.
Laika
500
This uprising against communism was not supported by the United States, as it was not containment policy to do so.
Hungarian Revolution of 1956
500
These were two rounds of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union to limit the production of ballistic missiles.
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (I and II)
500
This California gun control law was aimed at reducing the influence of armed black power groups in California.
Mulford Act (1967)
500
This Supreme Court case ruled that illegally sized evidence cannot be used at a trial.
Mapp v. Ohio
500
This established that the U.S. dollar was the dominant reserve currency and that the dollar was convertible to gold at the fixed rate of $35 per ounce. It was ended by Nixon in 1971.
Bretton Woods system
500
Mutineer Valery Sablin's attempt at start a new communist revolution in the USSR inspired this novel and the 1990 film of the same name.
