People
Woman who refused to give up her seat on the bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
Rosa Parks
The idea that if you shoot me, I will shoot you, so no one shoots.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction or MAD?
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr..
The term for the massive amount of kiddos born shortly after WWII.
What is the Baby Boom?
Capital of Germany, site of great tension and division during the Cold War.
What is Berlin?
First African American player in the MLB.
Who is Jackie Robinson
The fear of Communists within the United States?
What is the Red Scare?
Prior to the Civil Rights Movement, Plessy v Ferguson gave us this phrase to establish legal segregation.
What is "Separate but Equal?"
How returning soldiers paid for homes and college after WWII.
What is the GI Bill?
Country that sparked the first proxy war of the Cold War from 1950 - 1953.
What is Korea?
President of the U.S. at the start of the Cold War.
Who is Truman?
The movement inspired by one senator to root out communists in the U.S. Government.
What is McCarthyism?
The court case that overturned Plessy and said that schools need to integrate with all deliberate speed.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This counter-cultural music type was thought to destroy decency and corrupt the youth.
What is Rock and Roll?
City where the Bus Boycott inspired change to policies throughout the south.
Governor of Arkansas who attempted to keep the Little Rock 9 from attending school.
Oral Faubus
The president who believed in the massive build up or arms in order to stop the threat of the U.S.S.R. in the Cold War.
Who is Eisenhower?
Who did president Eisenhower use to ensure the integration of Central High School?
The 101st Airborne Division.
This item was a staple in every 1950s home and changed the way we communicate and entertain ourselves.
Place that exemplified to perfect 1950s family life, many bought homes here after the war.
What is the suburbs?
Supreme Court Justice who took up a great deal of cases regarding Civil Rights in the 1950s.
Who is Earl Warren?
The alliance of Western, capitalist nations formed during the Cold War and it still exists today.
What is NATO
The amendment to the constitution that was used to challenge segregation, it has the equal protection clause.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Their creation connected far away places, changed culture, but also allowed us to quickly move weapons across the country if needed.
What is the interstate highways?
The U.S. and the Soviet Union spent billions and raced to control this place in the 1950s?
What is space?