Cold War
Cold War Conflicts
Life in the 50's
Civil Rights Movement
Political Alliances
100
The U.S. policy of trying to stop communism from spreading to other places in the world.
What was the containment policy?
100
This was the closest the United States has come to nuclear war.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
100
Housing developments outside of cities.
What are the suburbs?
100
Protesting by refusing to use or buy something.
What is a boycott?
100
Name two jobs of the United Nations.
What are to find peaceful solutions to international issues, debate world issues, police local conflicts, establish norms for human behavior?
200
This U.S. Senator accused many Americans of being communist.
Who was Joseph McCarthy?
200
He was president during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who was John F. Kennedy?
200
Popular form of family entertainment.
What is the television?
200
Bus loads of people from the North going to the South to help with the Civil Rights Movement.
What were Freedom Rides?
200
These are the members of the UN General Assembly.
What are all member nations?
300
Time period when many Americans were accused and put on trial from being communist.
What was the Red Scare?
300
Both the Korean Conflict and the Vietnam War were fought over this issue.
What was the spread of communism?
300
Rapid increase of the birth rate after WWII.
What was the Baby Boom?
300
This Civil Rights leader believed change was not happening quickly enough.
Who was Malcolm X?
300
Purpose of NATO.
What was a military alliance against communist nations?
400
This was an unmanned satellite launched by the USSR that started the Space Race.
What was Sputnik?
400
This was the result of the Korean Conflict.
What was a stalemate with two separate Korean nations?
400
These improvments made cars safer and easier to drive. (3)
What was automatic transmission, radial tires, and power steering?
400
This prohibited segregation in public places.
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
400
This is how OPEC affects the United States.
What is they determine the rate of production and the price of oil?
500
This separated a city in Germany and was a symbol of communism until it was torn down in 1989.
What was the Berlin Wall?
500
This made fighting very difficult for our forces in the Vietnam War.
What was the jungle environment?
500
Stronger national and international connections improved these two pieces of technology.
What were the TV and telephone?
500
According to a Supreme Court decision, these were to be integrated "with all deliberate speed".
What were schools?
500
Permanent members of the UN Security Council. (5)
Who are the U.S., Great Britain (U.K.), France, China, and Russia?
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