People
This Baptist Minister and civil rights leader who led SCLC and organized non-violent protests throughout the south
MLK Jr.
Birmingham Alabama
A US program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952)
Marshall Plan
Suburbia
This 1956 law, signed by President Eisenhower, led to the creation of over 41,000 miles of interstate roads, revolutionizing transportation and suburban expansion in the United States.
The Highway Act of 1956
A group of screenwriters, actors, directors, and other US entertainment professionals accused of communist interests
The Hollywood 10
A failed military invasion of Cuba backed by the United States in 1961
Bay Of Pigs Invasion
The Supreme Court Case that established separate but equal and led to Jim Crow laws
Plessy V Ferguson
Women in the 1940s were classified as
cute
perky
sweet
SNCC stands for
Student non-violent coordinating committee
This person served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and was responsible for the partial de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union
Nikita Khrushchev
When a United States spy plane was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union
The U-2 Incident
1945 meeting with US president FDR, PM Churchill, and Stalin to plan for post WW2
The Yalta Conference
A 1953 book by Betty Friedan which is widely credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the US
The Feminine Mystique
House Committee on Un-American Activities
A 14 year old boy who was brutally murdered after speaking to a young white girl. His murderers were let go.
Emmett Till
After WW2, the United States occupied part this country below the 38th parallel because it had formerly been controlled by this country
Korea & Japan
2 laws signed by LBJ
1) ordering desegregation of all public facilities
2) prohibits racial discrimination in voting
Civil Rights Act of 1964 & The Voting Rights Act of 1965
I Love Lucy
Event organized by SNCC to register voters in Mississippi
Freedom Summer
This veteran sought entry to the University of Alabama
James Meredith
This agreement helped bring about detente in the Cold War
SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)
Name one of the provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Prohibited discrimination in hiring practices, public accommodations, employment, and voting
What Cold War era song hints at MAD and the Cuban Missile Crisis?
99 Red Balloons
This legislation, passed in 1944, provided veterans with benefits including educational funding, home loans, and unemployment support, helping them reintegrate into civilian life after World War II.
The GI Bill