Civil Rights
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Cold War
100

These laws were instituted in the South after Reconstruction to segregate public places and schools

What are Jim Crow laws?

100

Doctrine that warned European countries to stay out of the Americas and the Western Hemisphere.

What is Monroe Doctrine?

100

This president said "A house divided against itself cannot stand."

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

100

This nation put a man in space first.

Soviet Union

100

This city was divided until November 1989, and the fall of its wall marked the end of the Cold War

What is Berlin?

200

The Supreme Court case in 1954 that ended segregation in public schools

What is Brown v. Board of Education?

200

This was a policy of the US to support democratic nations resisting communism and emphasized containment of communist threats.

What is Truman Doctrine?

200

This president served during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bay of Pigs invasion

Who is John F. Kennedy?

200

This amendment abolished slavery

What is the 13th?

200

Which conflict best represents a usage of the policy of Containment during the Cold War?

A.Vietnam War    B. World War II   

C. World War       D. Spanish-American War

A. Vietnam War

300

Civil Rights leader who helped found the NAACP and advocated for immediate equality

WEB DuBois

300

The sinking of this passenger ship headed towards England threw the US into WWI

What is the Lusitania?

300

This president served during the Vietnam War and was responsible for the Watergate scandal

Who is Richard M. Nixon?

300

Battle that was the turning point of the Civil War (Lincoln gives a speech after this battle urging the nation to continue fighting for equality for all and honors the soldiers who died there)

What is the Battle of Gettysburg?

300

Winston Churchill used this two-word term (his ____ _____ Speech) to describe the divide between Eastern and Western Europe

What is the Iron Curtain?

400

This President who followed JFK signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?

400

This man, who was president during WWI, created the Fourteen Points

Who is Woodrow Wilson?

400

This president tried to break up monopolies and was known as a "trust-buster"

Who is Theodore Roosevelt?

400

This post-Civil War amendment grants citizenship to all people who were born here (including African-Americans)

What is the 14th?

400

What was the alliance of Communist countries created after World War II?

C. Warsaw Pact

500

Virginia student from Moton High School who led a School walkout protest in Prince Edward county to protest against school Segregation.

Who is Barbara Johns?

500

Part of the Fourteen Points, which was rejected by the US Senate, involved the creation of this international organization

What is the League of Nations?

500

This president made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan

Who is Harry S Truman?

500

Cities that had atomic bombs dropped on them at the end of WWII.

What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

500

"...we must, by means of sustained and rapid buildup of the political, economic, and military strength of the free world... take the initiative from the Soviet Union" -- President Harry Truman

This quote refers to--

A. Creation of the Manhattan Project   B. Japanese Invasion    C. Creation of the state of Israel   D. Cold War Tensions

D. Cold War Tensions

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