Cold War
What is the Containment Policy?
When the United States dropped supplies to the citizens of West Berlin?
The Berlin Airlift.
Was arrested for sitting in the white area of the bus starting the Montgomery bus boycott?
Who is Rosa Parks.
I was involved in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and gave a speech at the March on Washington, who am I?
Who is MLK?
What is the US belief that if we let one nation fall to communism more countries would fall?
What is the Domino Theory?
When the Soviet Union provided nuclear weapons to a certain Caribbean country .
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This country was partitioned into 2 after WWII to weaken it. The West became capitalist while the East became communist.
What is Germany?
This court case was finalized in 1964 banning segregation in schools.
What is the Brown vs. Board of Education?
We rode to the southern parts of the country protesting against segregation in interstate buses .
Who is the Freedom Riders?
President Nixon's plan to bring US troops home while training Vietnamese troops.
What is Vietnamization?
This was the economic ideology of the Soviet Union
What is communism?
Policy that allowed the US to provide financially or militarily aid so they don't turn to communism?
What is the Marshall Plan
Nickname for laws that promoted segregation.
What is Jim Crow Laws?
We use self defense to fight for African American rights and held different programs to support our community in Oakland California.
Who is The Black Panthers Party
This was one of the most controversial aspects of the Vietnam War and directly led many young people to protest.
What is the draft?
This international organization was created after WWII to try to keep peace.
What is the United Nations?
Organization where member countries pledged to defend each other if attacked?
What is NATO
What event was the first major challenge to southern schools unwilling to desegregate following the Brown v. Board of Education decision?
What was the Little Rock Nine?
I was an NAACP lawyer that became famous during the Brown v. Board of Education trial that ended racial segregation in schools.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
What was the surprise attack by the Vietcong on during the Vietnamese new year, 1968?
Tet Offensive
This was the first major military conflict between the Capitalist West and the Communist Bloc
What is the Korean War?
This major trend after WWII led to the U.S. and U.S.S.R fighting over newly independent countries.
What is decolonization?
Banned discrimination based on race, ethnicity, gender or religion in public places?
Civil Rights Act of 1964?
I preached black empowerment and was originally aligned with the Nation of Islam movement although I later changed my views.
Who is Malcom X?
This resolution was passed by the congress in 1964 giving President Johnson the power to use all military means to protect South Vietnam from communism.
What was The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?