Post World War II Germany
How many zones were Germany and Berlin divided into?
4 Zones
What line of latitude divided North and South Korea?
38 degrees north
What color was a symbol of communism?
Red
What does the acronym NAACP stand for?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
What was the U-2 Incident
A U.S. spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union taking pictures of Soviet military sites.
What 4 countries controlled these 4 zones?
United States, France, Great Britain, Soviet Union.
What does DMZ stand for? What is it?
Demilitarized Zone, an area that prohibits military forces.
What were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg accused of?
Passing atomic secrets to the Soviet agents.
What did Linda Brown's parents want for their third grader?
To attend her neighborhood school that was segregated.
The acronym CIA stands for...
Central Intelligence Agency
What physical structure was a symbol of the Iron Curtain?
The Berlin Wall
Since war was never declared, how was the Korean War referred to?
As a "police action."
Who was it that said he had a list of 205 men said to be members of the Communist Party?
Senator Joseph McCarthy
What did the Supreme Court rule in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka?
That separate schools were unequal and that segregation should end.
What does the acronym NATO stand for?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Berlin was surrounded by what country and was found in East or West Germany?
Soviet Union, East Germany
How many U.S. soldiers died during the Korean War?
about 54,000
The practice of publicly accusing people of being Communist without evidence was called...
McCarthyism
Woman who refused to give up her seat to a white man, and was arrested.
Rosa Parks
The Soviet's first space satellite in 1957 was called what?
Sputnik
What was the code name for the Berlin Airlift?
Operation Vittles.
When did the Korean War officially end?
It never did, just an agreed cease fire.
If you were put on a list of people that were not to be employed, this meant that you were...
Black-listed
What was boycotted in Montgomery, Alabama?
Buses
People born between 1946 and 1964 were known as ...
Baby Boomers