Nations
Cause and Effect
Civil Rights Terms
People and Places
Mystery!
100
This nation tried to spread communism all over the world.
What is the Soviet Union?
100
Because of the arms race, this type of war was a threat.
What is a nuclear war?
100
The way of bringing about changes without using force or violence.
What are nonviolent protests?
100
This southern state had the most protests and violent treatment of African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement.
What is Alabama?
100
This is the term used to describe the huge population increase after WWII ended.
What is the baby boom?
200
Soviet Union helped a civil war in this country so it would become a large communist country.
What is China?
200
The Korean War raged between the North and the South and this was the result.
What is South Korea did not become communist?
200
This means separated by racial or ethnic background.
What is segregation?
200
At least 200,000 people listened to this man's famous speech given in Washington, D.C.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
200
This President brought huge economic growth to the U.S. during the 1950s.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
300
This land was divided in half. The North part started a war with the South part to try to make the South part become communist as well.
What is North and South Korea?
300
After the Soviet Union placed missiles in Cuba, this is what President Kennedy did.
What is sent navy ships to form a blockade around Cuba?
300
These protest were held in restaurants where only white people were allowed to eat.
What were sit-ins at lunch counters?
300
This is the part of U.S. where Freedom Riders rode buses to prove laws had changed.
What is across the South?
300
This invention changed the way people got their news and information during the 1950s.
What is the television?
400
These two countries were in an arms race during the Cold War.
What is the United States and Soviet Union?
400
Linda Brown's parents sued the Board of Education in Topeka, Kansas, and this was the result.
What is school segregation ended?
400
The end of separation laws where people were not allowed to go places and do certain things because of the color of their skin.
What was desegregation?
400
This man worked diligently to help Mexican farm workers in California get improved work conditions and pay.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
400
This court case resulted in the end of school segregation.
What is Brown vs. the Board of Education?
500
The Soviet Union placed missiles in this island country, making the U.S. very nervous.
What is Cuba?
500
This was the result of the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.
What is the bus laws were changed so that black and white people could sit where they wanted?
500
This is an example of a civil right of citizens in the United States.
What is the right to vote, etc.?
500
Thurgood Marshall spent 24 years in this important job.
What is as a justice on the Supreme Court?
500
This is the main reason that the U.S. was so upset about nuclear missiles placed in Cuba.
What is because Cuba is only 90 miles from the U.S. mainland?
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