Cold War Crises
SMH USG
Supreme Court Cases
1960s Leaders
The Lads
100
The result of this crisis was the installation of THIS direct method of communication between the US and the USSR.
The Red Phone OR The Washington-Moscow Hotline
100
The US government was intentionally misleading about the progress of the Vietnam War, leading to THIS, referring to the public's lack of trust.
The Credibility Gap
100
This case provided the legal basis for desegregation, striking down the concept that separate but equal was possible.
Brown v. Board of Education
100
Who said, "I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice"
MLK
100
Maybe this hat was a hint that THIS LAD would advocate for more openness to western culture and economic restructuring.
Gorbachev
200
The most important long term cause of the Berlin Wall crisis was brain drain in THIS DIRECTION.
East Germany to West Germany
200
This president dragged his feet a bit in responding to the obvious violation of Brown v Board happening in Central Rock, Arkansas. But he eventually acted to enforce federal law.
Eisenhower
200
Loving v. Virginia struck down local and state laws that made THIS illegal.
Interracial marriage
200
Who said, "You have been alarmed by the fact that we have aided Cuba with weapons, in order to strengthen its defense capability--precisely defense capability--because whatever weapons it may possess, Cuba cannot be equated with you since the difference in magnitude is so great, particularly in view of modern means of destruction. Our aim has been and is to help Cuba, and no one can dispute the humanity of our motives, which are oriented toward enabling Cuba to live peacefully and develop in the way its people desire."
Khrushchev
200
Known for providing the funding the rebuilding of Europe and creating the foundation for US Cold War foreign policy, who is THIS LAD?
Harry Truman
300
The outbreak of the Korean War in 1950 began when the North invaded the South. Name two allies on each side of this war.
North Korea, China, USSR
South Korea, UN
300
Jim Crow laws in the South directly violated THIS AMENDMENT, but the US federal government did nothing to challenge these unconstitutional state laws.
14th Amendment
300
Boynton v. Virginia (1960) provided the legal basis for this non-violent direct action, which tested how well it was being enforced throughout the southern states.
Freedom Rides
300
Who said, "We are also there to strengthen world order. Around the globe, from Berlin to Thailand, are people whose well-being rests, in part, on the belief that they can count on us if they are attacked. To leave Vietnam to its fate would shake the confidence of all these people in the value of an American commitment and in the value of America’s word. The result would be increased unrest and instability, and even wider war."
LBJ
300
THIS LAD was the most proactive civil rights president.
LBJ
400
The Cuban Missile Crisis caused the superpowers to start thinking realistically about toning down the arms race. THIS TREATY followed one year after the crisis.
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (1963)
400
This Supreme Court case provided the original legal protection of "separate but equal" facilities.
+50 provide the year
Plessy v. Ferguson
1898
400
The case Roe v. Wade in essence protected abortion through the first trimester, but was based on a person's right to THIS.
Privacy
400
Who said, "The peoples of the socialist countries and Communist parties certainly do have and should have freedom for determining the ways of advance of their respective countries. However, none of their decisions should damage either socialism in their country or the fundamental interests of other socialist countries, and the whole working class movement, which is working for socialism."
Brezhnev
400
THIS LAD had a long, storied career in his future, when a cult of personality would develop around him that would later be torn down.
Stalin
500
In the Suez Crisis, the US learned the wrong lesson about the Middle East, mistakenly thinking that communism was a driving factor for change rather than nationalism, reflected in THIS NEW POLICY.
The Eisenhower Doctrine - promised aid to allies fighting communist threats in the Middle East
500
The US government used the FBI under THIS OPERATION to surveil and, in some cases, inflict violence on certain civil rights groups and leaders.
COINTELPRO
500
In the court case University of California v. Bakke, this was allowed but racial quotas in admissions were declared illegal.
Considering race in college/uni admissions
500
Who said, "Your (Revolutionary Guard) action indicates that you are expressing hatred and denunciation of landowners, the bourgeoisie, imperialism, revisionists and their running dogs who exploit workers, peasants, revolutionary intellectuals and parties. Your actions suggest that your rebellion… is justified. You have my warmest and fullest support."
Mao Zedong
500
THIS LAD eventually became the human single-most responsible for the US and USSR not engaging in full out nuclear war. Describe his role (+500 if you can name him).
Stanislav Petrov - the third Russian commander on the nuclear sub who refused to launch a missile at the US in the last days of the Cuban Missile Crisis.