Reconstruction
This amendment gave voting rights to African American men.
What is the 15th amendment?
This event pulled the US into WWII.
What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
Following WWII these two countries emerge as superpowers?
Who are the US and Soviet Union?
These two wars were fought to limit the spread of communism.
What are the Korean War and Vietnam War?
What is Brown V. Board?
These laws were passed in Southern states to deny African Americans their new rights.
What are internment camps?
This plan helped to rebuild Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This theory suggests that is South Vietnam becomes communist, all of Asia would as well.
What is the Domino Theory?
These individuals face turmoil in attempting to integrate schools.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
Many former slaves remain on plantations as these.
What are sharecroppers?
To increase the war effort, women did this.
What is take jobs in factories?
This doctrine pledges US support for countries resisting communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This invasion of Cuba was considered a fail.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
This began when Rosa Parks is arrested for removing to give up her seat on a public bus.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This court case upholds the constitutionality of segregation; establishing separate but equal.
What is Plessy V. Ferguson?
The name of the group that created the first atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
The US and Soviet Union competed to build weapons in this.
What is the Arms Race?
This crisis ended with the US blockade of Cuba and the removal of missiles.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This individual helps lead the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
Literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses make it difficult for this to happen.
What is African Americans voting?
This individual ordered the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end WWII and save American lives.
Who is President Harry Truman?
This is the stop of the spread of communism.
What is containment?
This was the easing of tensions between the US and USSR.
What is detente?
Legislation passed in the 1960's gave greater rights to this group of individuals.
Who are African Americans?