US, USSR, Korea and China
Postwar American Society
Postwar American Culture
Civil Rights Terms
Civil Rights, To be Specific
100
U.S. response to Soviet aggression in Berlin in which materials were airlifted into the city to assist the people there.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
100
The amount of money you actually bring home and how much it will buy, regardless of inflation.
What is real income?
100
Office-related professions that usually required education.
What are white-collar positions?
100
A U.S. citizen's basic freedoms to participate in American society.
What are Civil Rights?
100
Local minister in Montgomery that became the national leader of the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
200
Soviet Unions (USSR) political ideology.
What is Communism?
200
The buying of material goods that was stressed by advertisers.
What is consumerism?
200
Stay at home, care for family and the home.
What are social expectations for women's roles?
200
Name given to laws that enforce racial segregation in southern states.
What Jim Crow laws?
200
Marriage, politics and housing
What areas of society were affected by segregation?
300
Altering how you think and act in order to fit in.
What is social conformity?
300
Winner of the 1952 Presidential election; a Republican.
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
300
Supreme Court case that ruled that racial segregation was legal if equal facilities were created for the two races.
What is the Plessy case?
300
Nonviolent resistance, direct action and civil disobedience.
What tactics were used by the Civil Rights Movement?
400
Leader of Communist China
Who is Mao Ze Dong?
400
Means of reaching a large audience at one time through print, radio and/or TV.
What is mass media?
400
White families moving to the suburbs, businesses and jobs relocating to the suburbs, deteriorating inner cities with few jobs and services.
What is White Flight?
400
Supreme Court case that ruled segregation in public education was unconstitutional; struck down Plessy case.
What is the Brown case?
400
Eisenhower was forced to intervene to enforce the desegregation of a public high school in Arkansas.
What is Little Rock High School?
500
Intervened to defend South Korea and contain communism.
What is the United Nations?
500
Having more children because of improvements in medicine, a booming economy and the expectation that people be married and have large families.
What is the baby boom?
500
Influential book the described the growing problem of poverty in American society.
What is "The Other America"?
500
Banning people from participation in the political process.
What is disenfranchisement?
500
Goal was to show Congress there was a large public support for Kennedy's proposed Civil Rights Bill.
What is March on Washington and "I Have a Dream" speech?
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