WORDS AND TERMS
What generation was a direct result of world war 2?
Baby Boom
He was the first African American baseball player in 1947 and was the start of the modern civil rights movement
Jackie Robinson
What style of protest did Martin Luther King and his student followers use in the early 1960's?
Civil Disobedience
One example of a suburban town that was built for returning soldiers
Levittown
This supreme court decision overturned plessy vs ferguson and legalized the integration of schools
Brown vs Board of Ed
The early 1960's student movement and Martin Luther King led to the passing of this important law
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Who was the senator in the 1950's who accused Americans of being Communists?
Joe McCarthy
President Eisenhower sent federal troops into the Little Rock high school... why?
To escort African American students to go to school
This law was created to stop grandfather clauses, poll taxes, and literacy tests
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Truman sent supplies over the Soviet blockade by plane
Berlin Airlift
Why did Truman send troops to the Korean peninsula in 1950? (The Korean War)
To stop the spread of communism in Korea
These people went town to town on buses to desegregate lunch counters in the south
Freedom Riders
This was the plan to send money and supplies to European nations after ww2 ended
Marshall Plan
Betty Friedan wrote book, The Feminine Mystique, to do what?
show women they could be independent and have a career
List 1 positive and 1 negative of JFK as President
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bay of Pigs
Peace Corps
NASA