Cold War and Civil Rights Test

Civil Rights Movement

100

Rosa Parks was arrested for sitting in the white section of a bus, initiating this major Civil Rights Protest.

What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott. 

200

This young man was lynched for supposedly whistling at a white woman while visiting family in Mississippi.

Who was Emmett Till? 

300

According to Kidd, these were the main points of MLK's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" in response to the white clergy who had criticized King. 

What are: 

• Waiting was not an option for activists, they had been waiting since the founding of the American colonies for an end to racial oppression.
• Civil Rights activists were standing up for the American Dream and democracy
• Civil Rights activists were not extremists any more than Jesus, Jefferson, and Lincoln were. 

400

These were the primary issues on which Civil Rights protestors desired change.

What are segregation in schools and public places, voting rights, unequal treatment under the law, economic inequality, and racial violence?

500

These specific events, legislation, and court rulings made the Civil Rights Movement successful.

What are: 

• The Supreme Court ruled in the 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education, that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, overturning “separate but equal.”
• The Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-56) successfully pressured the city to desegregate buses.
• Sit-ins at segregated lunch counters spread across the South in 1960.
• The Freedom Rides challenged segregation on interstate buses in 1961.
• King delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 during the March on Washington.
• The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed segregation and discrimination in public places and employment.
• The Voting Rights Act of 1965 protected African Americans’ right to vote by banning discriminatory voting practices.

Amendments and Presidents

100

22nd and 23rd Amendments

• The 22nd Amendment limited presidents to two terms in office.
• The 23rd Amendment granted residents of Washington D.C. the right to vote for president.

200

24th Amendment and 25th Amendment

24th Amendment banned poll taxes in federal elections.

25th Amendment established rules for presidential succession and disability.

300

26th Amendment and 27th Amendment

26th Amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.

27th Amendment said Congressional pay raises cannot take effect until after the next election.

400

President Nixon was the only US president to resign after a scandal involving bugged campaign offices located at this famous hotel.

What is the Watergate?

500

Name the 33rd-40th Presidents in order. 

Who were Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan? 

Cold War Tensions

100

This event was considered the point at which the Cold War almost became "hot." 

What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?

200

The metaphorical name for the border between Soviet controlled eastern Europe and Western Europe.

What is the Iron Curtain?

300

This is the full name of the organization that uses NATO as its acronym.

What the North Atlantic Treaty Organization? 

400

This was the policy which capitalist countries attempted to limit the spread of Communism.

What is Containment?

500

The CIA aided in the take over of the country’s democratically elected government during the Guatemalan Coup of 1954 for these TWO reasons.

What are: 

• Concern that that Guatemala’s government was becoming too closely tied to communism/Soviet influence and
• That influence threatened American business interests like the United Fruit Company

Space Race

100

Neil Armstrong's uttered this phrase as the first words on the moon. 

What is "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"?

200

NASA first landed humans on the moon in this year.

What is 1969?

300

Sputnik, the first satellite to orbit the earth was launched by this nation in 1957.

What was the USSR/Soviet Union?

400

Yuri Gagarin (USSR) became famous for this accomplishment.

What is the first human in space, completing one orbit?

500

The crew of this mission narrowly escaped catastrophe while on the way to the moon.

What is Apollo 13?

Vietnam and Korea

100

The Korean War took place during these years.

What are 1950-1953?

200

The Vietnam War took place during these years.

What are 1955-1975?

300

As a result of the Korean War, the following happened: 

What are borders and alliances remained largely unchanged?

400

In both the Korean and Vietnamese conflicts, the US sided with this portion of the nation.

What is South?

500

During the Vietnam War, many protested US involvement for these reasons. 

What are: 

• Large numbers of American soldiers were dying.
• Many believed the war was unnecessary or unwinnable.
• The draft forced young Americans into military service.
• Media coverage showed the violence and destruction of the war.