This man who once believed Black and White societies should be separated, later changed his views, which led to his assassination.
What is Malcolm X
100
Cause for the Berlin Airlift of 1948
What is Stalin ordered the blockade of West Berlin to force its people to surrender to communist control?
100
Result of Vietnam War
What is Vietnam was united under a communist government?
100
First man on the moon.
What is Neil Armstrong?
100
The Commander of US and UN forces sent a letter to _________ complaining that he was being kept from doing his job by Truman
What is Congress?
200
These people made their stand against segregation on buses which traveled through the southern states
What is Freedom Riders?
200
Reason for the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961
What is East Germans were crossing into West Berlin and West Germany seeking a better way of life?
200
Impact of Kent State shootings.
What is Outraged America over the tragedy of a peaceful demonstration?
200
Name of first satellite launched
What is Sputnik 1?
200
The UN had a clear but difficult goal in the war. What was it?
What is Push the North Koreans back across the 38th Parallel?
300
This man was the first African American Supreme Court Justice
What is Thurgood Marshall?
300
United States Cold War policy that said that US military forced had to be used to prevent communism from spreading to any other nations around the world.
What is Containment?
300
President Johnson not running for reelection.
What is Failure to win the war in Vietnam or the War on Poverty?
300
Competitors in Space Race.
What is United States and Soviet Union?
300
American and UN troops moved from the south out of the port city of _________; this was the only small area still held by the South Korean Army
What is Pusan?
400
This Civil Rights advocate was a pacifist who promoted passive resistance and civil disobedience.
What is Martin Luther King Jr.
400
Cause and the result of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
What is Placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba aimed at the United States. Result: Soviet Union agreed to take down the missiles, while the United States promised not to invade Cuba?
400
Pentagon Papers reveal about the government's motivation for fighting in Vietnam
What is To avoid a defeat?
400
Year of NASA creation.
What is October 1958?
400
The war ended on July 27, 19___
What is 53?
500
This eliminated literacy tests as well as provided more opportunities for African-Americans to vote
What is Voting Rights Act of 1965?
500
NATO and purpose.
What is Military alliance of the USA , Canada, and Western European nations. Purpose was to prevent the spread of communism into Western Europe?
500
Gulf of Tonkin incident escalate the Vietnam War
What is Johnson did not ask Congress for a declaration of war and sent more troops to Vietnam?
500
Events of July 20,1969.
What is Apollo 11 Reached Lunar Orbit?
500
On June 24, 19____ Truman received word that Communist North Korea had invaded South Korea