The conference in which tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union began.
What was the Yalta Conference?
100
Korea was divided into a Communist north and non-communist south along this line.
What is the 38th parallel?
100
He was the leader of Cuba when Eisenhower cut off diplomatic relations with the country.
Who was Fidel Castro?
100
This country had gained control of Vietnam during the late 1800s.
What was France?
100
The policy of separating races in schools, public places, businesses, etc.
What was segregation?
200
The word that is used to describe the U.S. and Soviet Union after World War II.
What are superpowers?
200
He was the leader of China during the Korean War.
Who was Mao Zedong?
200
Cuba received aid from this country during the time period we are studying.
Who was the Soviet Union?
200
The Geneva Accords separated Vietnam into two zones, north and south at this location.
What was the 17th parallel?
200
The Brown v. the Board of Education supreme court decision overturned this supreme court decision.
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
300
The phrase that was used to describe the division of Europe between a mostly democratic Western Europe and a communist Eastern Europe.
What was the "Iron Curtain"?
300
This area attacked first during the Korean War.
What was North Korea?
300
This event was when Cuban exiles supported by the U.S. military landed on Cuba’s southern coast and tried to overthrow the government.
What was the Bay of Pigs?
300
This protest caused the death of four college students and wounded at least nine others.
What was the Kent State protest?
300
This event started after Rosa Parks would not give up her seat on the bus to a white man.
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycotts?
400
Berlin was located in this occupied territory of Germany.
What was the Soviet Union?
400
The United States helped this side during the Korean War.
What was South Korea?
400
In 1962, an American U-2 surveillance flight saw medium and intermediate missile sites under construction in this country.
What was Cuba?
400
On January 30, 1968, the Vietcong and North Vietnamese launched a massive surprise attack in South Vietnam.
What was the Tet Offensive?
400
President Eisenhower sent the US army here to help assure that school integration would occur?
What is Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas?
500
The name given to the American plan to spend money to rebuild Europe and to help stimulate economic growth and trade.
What was the Marshal Plan?
500
This country invaded China in 1937, which forced the Nationalists and Communists to unite to defeat this common enemy.
Who was Japan?
500
This was the closest the United States and the Soviet Union came to nuclear war.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
500
This resolution authorized the president to “take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression.”