People
Who said the famous “I have a Dream” speech?
Martin Luther King Jr.
This 1954 Supreme Court case ruled that segregating public schools was illegal.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
What is a sit-in?
Activists used this peaceful protest method where they refused to leave segregated lunch counters.
These are the two primary colors used on maps to show the two sides.
What are blue (U.S.) and red (USSR)?
What is the Berlin Wall?
This famous wall was built in Germany to stop people from escaping the communist side.
Who did not give their seat up on the bus?
Rosa Parks
This second court ruling ordered schools to desegregate with "all deliberate speed."
What is Brown II?
What is non-violence (or civil disobedience)?
Dr. King’s main strategy of fighting unjust laws without using violence.
The U.S. is a democracy, but the Soviet Union had this type of government where the state controls everything.
What is communism?
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This 1962 crisis was the closest the U.S. and Soviet Union ever came to an actual nuclear war.
Which famous activist was muslim?
Malcolm X
This important civil rights organization led the legal fight against unequal schools.
What is the NAACP?
What is an economic boycott?
This tactic involves a community collectively refusing to buy goods or use services from businesses that practice segregation, hitting them where it hurts most: their wallets.
The U.S. used this policy to stop communism from spreading to new countries.
What is containment?
What is the Vietnam War?
The U.S. got involved in this long war in Asia during the 1960s to stop the communist North from taking over the South.
Who was the first African American to enter a white school?
Ruby Bridges
This law passed by Congress in 1957 gave the federal government more power over schools and voting.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1957?
What is a carpool?
To protest the buses in Montgomery, African Americans refused to ride them and used this sharing method instead.
The Cold War was a standoff between the United States and this other major superpower.
What is the Soviet Union?
What is the Korean War?
This war in the early 1950s ended in a tie, leaving the country split into a North and a South side to this day.
Who was a statesman that was part of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?
John Lewis
This global war created new job opportunities for African Americans and helped launch the modern Civil Rights Movement.
What is World War II?
What is SNCC?
This student-led organization was formed in 1960 to use nonviolent, confrontational protests.
This specific political group didn't actually wear cowboy hats, but they were consistently referred to as "The West" during the conflict.
Who is the United States and its allies?
What is the Berlin Airlift?
During this early event, the U.S. had to fly food and supplies into a blocked-off German city for 11 months.