Lessons 1-2
The US and Soviet Union engaged in this type of intense competition, also known as
What is a cold war?
The _______________ helped WW2 veterans get low interest loans for housing, businesses, and education
What is the GI Bill
This Supreme Court case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
What is Brown v. Board of Education
What is the Dixiecrats
Who is Nikki Haley
The ________ Doctrine provided aid to any country threatened by Communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine
The _______________ campaign was a big catalyst to the modern civil rights movement after WW2.
What is the Double V campaign
The Friendship Nine used this tactic to peacefully protest
What is jail, no bail
Who is Strom Thurmond
3 students at SC State were killed during this violent event in 1968
What is the Orangeburg Massacre
The ____________plan was to provide aid to countries destroyed in WW2
What is the Marshall Plan
In 1948, President Truman passed this executive order, which banned discrimination in the military.
What is executive order 9981
This Supreme Court case was the cornerstone case to Brown v. Board of Education, which made segregation illegal
What is Briggs v. Elliot
Strom Thurmond filibustered this 1957 law
What is the Civil Rights Act
He was the first African American student to integrate Clemson
Who is Harvey Gantt
The ______________ was developed to make radioactive materials and to provide electricity to SC
What is the Savannah River Site
This gentleman, with the help of the NAACP challenged the all-white democratic primary in SC
Who is George Elmore
The March on Washington helped get the ______________ Act of 1964 passed
What is the Civil Rights
This country is the top importer of SC goods
What is China
The strategy for the US in combating Communism was to ___________
What is contain it where it exists
Returning home, this WW2 veteran was brutally beaten by the police, sparking national outrage
Who is Isaac Woodard
From SC, ____________ made the anthem for the Civil Rights movement (We Shall Overcome) famous
What is uranium
She is considered to be the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement by laying the foundation for the modern CR movement
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune