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What is it called when the government owns all the land, business, and factories?
What was the space race about?
It was a competition between the Soviet Union and US to see who has better technology to launch a man into space
What is a sit-in?
a peaceful protest of sitting in "whites only" sections of restaurants
a leader who was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white person. Her actions sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Rose Parks
What was the baby boom?
The baby boom was a period after World War II in which a large number of babies were born in the US
What happened during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
the US blocked Soviet Union ships from reaching Cuba in fear that the Soviet Union was moving bombs closer to them
Who were the freedom riders?
A group of young college students (both black and white)
a civil rights leader who studied the teachings of Gandhi to learn about the power of nonviolence to bring change
Martin Luther King, Jr.
What are suburbs?
Suburbs are neighborhoods outside of the center of a city which offered nice houses with big yards
to divide Berlin into East and West and to keep those in East Berlin from escaping to West Berlin
What was the purpose of NATO?
It stands for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Its purpose was to form an alliance of noncommunist countries to keep communism from spreading
What was the goal of the freedom riders?
to travel state to state to spread the message of desegregation
the president who took office after John F. Kennedy died and signed the Civil Rights Act into law
Lyndon Johnson
to tell shoppers about new products and to persuade people to buy
The Iron curtain was...
an imaginary line that divided communist countries from noncommunist countries
True or False - The United States and the Soviet Union remained allied during the cold war.
False
What was the Brown V. Board of Education court case all about?
The president during the Cuban Missile Crisis who was assassinated in an open car in Texas
John F. Kennedy
Who created the Interstate Highway System and what was its purpose?
It was created by President Eisenhower. Its purpose was to make travel easier for all Americans. 4,200 miles of road was created.
What was the arms race about?
It was a competition between the Soviet Union and US to create bigger Nuclear Weapons
Name the 3 causes of the cold war.
1. Allied shared control of Germany (US controlled the West and Soviet Union controlled the East)
2. The fear of communism spreading. The Berlin wall prevented East Berlin citizens from fleeing to West Berlin.
3. The arms race began and both countries were creating bigger weapons
What was the Montgomery bus boycott?
when African Americans refused to ride buses to fight against unfair bus segregation laws
the 1st African American supreme court justice who presented the Brown V. Board of Education court case
Thurgood Marshall
Name five aspects of teenage culture during the 1950s.
Rock-n-roll music, drive-in movie theaters, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, portable radios