Civil Rights
This Supreme Court Case ruled that "separate but equal" public facilities were constitutional.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The Cold War was the result of mistrust and fear between these two super powers.
What are the United States and Soviet Union?
North Korea's invasion of this country started the Korean War.
What is the Korean War?
This president integrated the U.S. armed forces in 1948?
Who was Harry Truman?
He was the manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers who signed Jackie Robinson.
Who was Branch Rickey?
This supreme court case reversed the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
What is the Iron Curtain?
This president never asked for a declaration of war during the Korean "police action".
Who was President Truman?
This party was divided over President Truman's support of civil rights and proposals to end poll taxes and lynchings.
What was the Democratic party?
He ordered federal troops to uphold the integration of Little Rock Central High School.
Who was Dwight Eisenhower?
Many southern whites resisted this result of the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
What is integration of public schools?
This was the U.S. policy of helping any nation threatened by communism.
What was the Truman Doctrine?
This country was an ally with South Korea.
Who was the United States?
During the Red Scare of the 1950's this politician destroyed the lives of many innocent people.
Who was Joseph McCarthy?
This civil rights leader was influenced by the writings of Thoreau and Gandhi.
Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
This future Supreme Court justice argued the Brown v. Board of Education case on behalf of the students.
Who was Thurgood Marshall?
This was the U.S. policy that offered financial aid to the shattered economies and infrastructure of Europe.
What was the Marshall Plan?
This country was an ally of North Korea.
Who was China?
Who was Thurgood Marshall?
This controls the means of production in a communist economic system.
What are government agencies?
This Chief Justice convinced the other justices that a unanimous decision would be best for national unity.
Who was Justice Earl Warren?
This former British Prime Minister warned of the dangers of communism in a speech in Fulton, MO.
Who was Winston Churchill?
This was the year that President Truman sent troops to defend South Korea.
What was 1950?
He broke the color barrier in baseball in 1948.
Who was Jackie Robinson?
These work as a powerful way seeking change through economic rather than political means.
What are boycotts?
This was the result most commonly tied to Rosa Park's refusal to give up her seat on a bus.
What was the Montgomery bus boycott?
This Vietnamese nationalist asked President Truman for help in winning independence from France.
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
As a result of the truce ending the hostilities of the Korean War these countries were separated at the 38th parallel.
What is North and South Korea?
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. preached this approach to the civil rights movement.
What was nonviolence?
This group was largely left out of the economic prosperity of the 1950's.
Who were African Americans?