Cold War Begins
Korean "War"
Space Race & Arms Race
Vietnam
Civil Rights Movement
100
Policy of resisting further spread of communism around the world.
What is Containment
100
Which country helped democratic South Korea fight communist North Korea?
What is U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A!
100
Founded in America in 1958 to fund the space program and to compete with Russia's space program.
What is NASA
100
Why did the United States enter the Vietnam War?
To keep Vietnam, and the nations around it, from falling to communism (Domino Theory)
100
Baptist Minister who became a civil rights leader (founded the SCLC)
What is MLK
200
Provide two examples of U.S. containment
What is Berlin Airlift, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan
200
Which country helped communist North Korea fight democratic South Korea?
What is China
200
Describe one advancement in space made by the U.S. during the space race in the 1960s
What is 1st man on the moon, Apollo Program
200
DAILY DOUBLE: Explain two reasons why more than 50% of the American people had turned against the Vietnam conflict by the end of the 1960s
My Lai Massacre & Pentagon Papers
200
Civil rights activist that refused to give up bus seat to a white passenger, was jailed, and the Montgomery bus boycott was organized as a result.
What is Rosa Parks
300
1949 alliance of (non-communist) nations that agreed to band together to protect each nation involved:
What is NATO
300
President of the U.S. during the Korean War?
What is Harry Truman
300
Describe one advancement in space made by the Soviet Union during the space race in the 1960s
What is Sputnik
300
Leader of Communist North Vietnam during the Vietnam War
Ho Chi Minh
300
The first African American player in the major league of baseball.
What is Jackie Robinson
400
Government owns all property and dominates all aspects of life in a country:
What is Communism
400
Chinese Communist leader from 1949 to 1976.
What is Mao Zedong
400
One thousand more times more powerful than the atomic bomb. Truman ordered the development of it to outpace the Soviets.
What is Hydrogen Bomb
400
A series of massive, coordinated attacks by the Vietcong across Vietnam
Tet Offensive
400
Minister of the Nation of Islam, urged blacks to claim their rights by any means necessary.
What is Malcolm X
500
An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations.
What is Warsaw Pact
500
Dividing line between North and South Korea that is a demilitarized zone.
What is 38th Parralel
500
Building up your military (specifically producing nuclear weapons) during peace time
What is Military Industrial Complex
500
President Nixon's national security adviser, engaged in secret peace talks with the North Vietnamese.
Henry Kissinger
500
Group of civil rights workers who took bus trips through southern states in 1961 to protest illegal bus segregation
What is Freedom Riders
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