WARS
Year the Korean War Started
1950
He coined the term "Iron Curtain"
Winston Churchill
President at the beginning of the Korean War
Truman
Leader of the Civil Rights Movement
MLK Jr.
What became part of every American home in the 1950s
TV
Korea and Vietnam were Wars to contain what?
Communism
Assassin of JFK
Lee Harvey Oswald
The first President that sent COMBAT troops into Vietnam - 1954
Eisenhower
African American Students who had to be escorted to school by National Guard Troops in 1957. In Little Rock
Little Rock Nine
He became the "King of Rock of Roll" and parents didn't like him
ELVIS
The hostility between the Soviet Union and the US after WWII until the early 1990's
Cold War
Governor of Arkansas who was not following desegration laws
Wallace
Faubus
Murphy
Faubus
Became President after JFK assassination
Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ)
Studenrts who rode on buses to test segregation mostly in South
Freedom Riders
A popular fad of the 50's was goldfish swallowig. T or F
T
How was Korea split after the Korean War
North - Communist
South - non-communist
Premiere of the Soviet union during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Nikita Kruschev
Sent National Guard troops to Central High School to escort students
Eisenhower
She refused to give up her seat on a bus in 1955, was arrested and her arrest sparked a 381 day bus boycott
Rosa Parks
First Artificial Satelite put into orbit by the Soviets in 1957
Sputnik
President who removed all troops out of Vietnam
Nixon
President who desegregated the military in1948
Truman
President during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Kennedy
Student lead organization that promoted non violence
SNCC
What changed the fabric of America in the 50s
Automobiles