Leaders
Turning Points
Civil Rights
Cold War
Cause & Effect
100
Led a non violent civil disobedience movement to end segregation.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
100
1963, Washington D.C.
March on Washington
100
Integrated Major League Baseball
Who is Jackie Robinson
100
First test of tension between USSR and USA in Berlin, Germany, 1947-48.
What is Berlin Blockade and Airlift
100
Cause of Cuban Missile Crisis
What is Bay of Pigs
200
Advocated more radical, extreme measures to attain equal rights for African Americans. A member of the Nation of Islam.
Who was Malcolm X?
200
1962, Cuba
What is Cuban Missile Crisis
200
High School in Arkansas where the Governor resisted integration.
What is Little Rock High School
200
President during the Bay of Pigs invasion and Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who was President John Kennedy
200
Cause of the Red Scare
What is Korean War, spies, Mac Carthy
300
First president of the Cold War against the USSR?
Who was President Truman?
300
Relaxation of tension between U.S. and USSR in the 70's.
What is detente
300
Outlawed poll taxes, literacy tests, and other voting restrictions in 1965
What is Voting Rights Act.
300
Name for program spending billions of dollars rebuilding Europe after WW II to help stop the spread of communism.
What is the Marshall Plan
300
Effect of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, 1964
What is Vietnam War
400
President in the 80's during the end of the Cold War?
Who was President Reagan?
400
President Nixon visited these two communist nations in the 70's.
What is China and Soviet Union
400
Brown v. Board of Education overturned this case from 1896
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
400
Military aid to nations resisting communism. First applied to Greece and Turkey.
What is Truman Doctrine.
400
Effect of USSR attempting to spread communism
What is American policy of "containment"
500
Attorney for Brown in the Brown v. Board of Education desegregation case of 1954. Later became the first African American on the Supreme Court.
Who was Thurgood Marshall
500
1989, Germany
What is destruction of the Berlin Wall
500
Political party that fought against police brutality, economic discrimination, poverty, and for better education and living conditions.
What is Black Panther Party
500
Name ONE of THREE key events of 1950
What is USSR tests Hydrogen Bomb, Korean War began, China became communist
500
Cause of the Civil Rights Movement
What is segregation, lack of voting rights for African Americans
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