Civil Rights Movement
DAILY DOUBLE! This Black power group was founded in Oakland in 1966.
What is the Black Panther Party?
For 13 days in October, 1962 the world came terrifyingly close to nuclear war in this famous incident.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This phenomenon increased the population drastically during the 1950s.
What is the baby boom?
DAILY DOUBLE! This method for building a monopoly included buying each of the steps needed to make the product.
What is vertical integration?
Rosa Parks' arrest inspired this African-American driven protest in 1955.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
DAILY DOUBLE! This senator falsely claimed to have a list of Soviet sympathizers who worked in government.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
DAILY DOUBLE! This system allowed Americans to use their cars to access far away places like suburbs.
What is the interstate highway system?
In this conflict, the U.S. claimed over 1/2 of Mexico's territory.
What is the Mexican American War?
This 1954 Supreme Court case declared that segregation in public education violated the equal protection of the law.
What is Brown v Board of Education?
This U.S. belief proposed that if one country became communist, others would follow.
What is the Domino Theory?
DAILY DOUBLE! This 1969 music festival was advertised as 3 days of Peace, Love, and Music.
What is Woodstock?
DAILY DOUBLE! This treaty ended the American Revolution.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1783)?
Peaceful demonstrators marching for this civil rights in Selma, Alabama were assaulted by police in 1965.
What is voting/the vote?
This doctrine declared that the U.S. would attack the Soviet Union directly using nuclear weapons if the USSR attacked a U.S. ally.
What is Massive Retaliation?
This feminist activist wrote the Feminine Mystique (1963) and founded the National Organization for Women.
Who is Betty Friedan?
DAILY DOUBLE! This amendment established birthright citizenship to all people born in the U.S., including African Americans.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
This activist organization was founded by Dr. Martin Luther King in 1956 to combat segregation.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
This agreement in 1954 divided Vietnam into a communist North and an Anti-Communist South to end French military involvement.
What are the Geneva Accords?
This leftist student group demanded more individual power in democracy.
Who were the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)?
What was Bacon's Rebellion?