The Beginning of
the Cold War
the Cold War
The Cold War was a long period of tension between which two countries?
The United States and the Soviet Union
What is a proxy war?
A war fought between other countries, but with each side getting support from a different superpower.
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union when it collapsed?
Mikhail Gorbachev
Which African American Civil Rights leader refused to give up her seat during the Montgomery Bus Boycotts?
Rosa Parks
The Chicano Movement is closely associated with the boycott of what food during 1965?
Grapes
What was the domino theory?
The idea that if one country fell to communism, then its neighboring countries would also fall to communism.
What was the "Red Scare"?
Periods of extreme anti-communism in the United States
What area of the Soviet Union started to rebel first?
The Baltic Region
Betty Friedan fueled the 2nd Wave of Feminism by publishing what book, which resonated with many middle-class women across the country?
The Feminist Mystique
What caused the Stonewall Riots to occur?
In 1969, the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay club in Greenwich Village.
Fed up with years of police harassment, patrons and neighborhood residents began throwing objects at police as they loaded the arrested into police vans.
The scene eventually exploded into a full-blown riot, with subsequent protests that lasted for five more days.
What did the Marshall Plan do?
It offered help and finances to European countries in order to recover from World War II, with the hope that this would keep these countries from falling to communism.
What is McCarthyism?
It is used to describe accusations of treason or disloyalty without producing evidence.
Named after Joseph McCarthy.
What country was the technical "successor state" to the Soviet Union?
Russia
What was the Mattachine Society?
One of the first big LGBTQ+ activist groups that aimed to protect and improve the rights of the LGBTQ+ community.
Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I have a dream" speech at what 1963 event?
The March on Washington
What is the difference between Capitalism and Communism?
Capitalism = trade and industry are owned and controlled by private citizens for profit.
Communism = everything is shared equally and there is little private ownership
During the Vietnam War, the U.S. fought against the North and what other group?
The Viet Cong, who were insurgents in South Vietnam
After the Soviet Union dissolved, it split up into 15 separate independent countries. Name 5 of them:
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan
Which two leaders formed the United Farm Workers Union?
Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta
What were the Greensboro Sit-Ins, and how were activists treated at them?
Black people were not allowed to eat at lunch counters in many restaurants. To protest this, Black people and their allies did a sit-in at the lunch counters -- not eating anything and peacefully protesting -- just taking up the space they deserved. As a result, what people threw food and drinks on them, yelled and harassed them, and committed acts of violence against them.
What were the Arms Race and the Space Race symbolic of?
The United States and the Soviet Union wanted to demonstrate their power and technology.
Why did the United States initially get involved in Vietnam?
It was originally called French Indochina, and France was fighting to keep control of the colony. The U.S. wanted France as an ally in the Cold War, so they got involved to keep that relationship in tact.
What was Glasnost and Perestroika?
Glasnost = more freedom of speech and openness in government
Perestroika = restructuring the Soviet economy to allow some private ownership and loosen the government's grip on the economy
Brown vs. Board of Education was a landmark Supreme Court Case. Why was Brown suing the Board of Education?
Her daughter was Black, and therefore was not allowed to go to the school near their home. Instead, she had to walk many miles by herself, and in dangerous conditions -- passing strangers, climbing under trains, and facing bad weather to get to an all-Black school.
What was some criticism of the feminist movement of the 1950's and 1960's?
The movement focused mainly on middle class white women, and ignored the voices of women of color, working-class women, and LGBTQ+ women.