Vietnam War/Korean War
What country colonies Vietnam prior to the Japanese invasion?
France
What is the concept of Containment?
Keeping Communism in China and Russia
What is the name of the woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus sparked the Montgomery bus boycotts?
Rosa Parks
What is the name of the document that was first used to create the United States?
The Articles of Confederation
Name the last four president.
Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?
Viet Cong ships fired upon a US Naval vessel and the US used this to enter into the Vietnam War
What concept did other protest movements take from the Civil Rights movement?
Non-violence
How did the Mexican American war lead to the Civil War?
The newly acquired land had to be given a free or slave status.
Who was President after Richard Nixon?
Gerald Ford
What is the plan designed to help rebuild Europe after WW2?
The Marshall Plan
What court case was overturned with Brown V. Board of Education?
Plessy v. Fergusson
Why did the UN invade Iraq in 1991?
Iraq had just invaded Kuwait
What Parallel is the current boarder between South and North Korea?
38th
What President visited China and opened it up to economic activity with the United States?
Richard Nixon
What caused the United States to enter WW1? Name two reasons.
Zimmerman Note and U-boat use
Where were 4 protestors shot and killed by members of the National Guard?
Kent State
What is the name of the organization created by the USSR to combat NATO?
Warsaw Pact
Give an example of how each of the 3 branches of government contributed to the Civil Rights movement?
Desegregate the military through executive order 9981, Brown v. Board of Education, Civil Rights Act
What is the name of the political group that pushed for harsher treatment of the South after the Civil War?
Radical Republicans
What two events affected public trust in the Government in the mid 1900s?
Watergate and JFK's assassination