Court Cases
A court case in 1944 that was held because a woman refused to give up her seat. (Hint: It's not Rosa Parks.)
What was Morgan v. the Commonwealth?
The surrender of this country, during WWI forced them to forfeit control of over 200 million people in a 1951 peace treaty.
What is Japan?
Name of the famous African American Civil Rights activist who challenged social norms simply by refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white person.
Who was Rosa Parks?
These two countries had a decades-long conflict over technological and ideological supremacy.
Who is the United States and the Soviet Union?
During 1946 to 1955, the production of these items rose from 2.2 million to 8 million.
What are cars?
Name of the court case held by the U.S. Supreme Court that said you cannot deny someone the purchase of property based on race.
What was Shelley v. Kraemer?
This organization, founded in 1945, gave newly independent countries a forum to raise support for decolonization around the world.
What is the United Nations?
Name of the first African American to play in Major League Baseball.
Who was Jackie Robinson?
This doctrine named after the U.S. President provided money, weapons, and troops to any state trying to withstand a Communist takeover.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This form of music celebrated themes of young love and freedom from oppression of middle-class society.
What is Rock and Roll?
Name of the 1896 court case decision that was brought up to the U.S. Supreme Court by the NAACP in 1950. (Hint: "separate but equal" concept)
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
This was Truman’s program of economic and social reform.
What is the Fair Deal?
Name of the first African American child to attend a previously all-white school.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
This policy tried to limit the expansion of Soviet influence abroad.
What is Containment?
This president avoided engaging the U.S. in foreign conflicts and focused on growing the economy during the 1950s.
Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Name of the court case that argued the denial of admission to the University of Texas for a young man.
What was Sweatt v. Painter?
This era is defined by a shift from exporting raw materials to producing industrial goods.
What is Industrialization?
This NAACP lawyer was known as “Mr. Civil Rights.”
Who was Thurgood Marshall?
This manmade satellite, was launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.
What is Sputnik?
This development community of prefabricated houses known as Levittown was built in 1947 in this city.
What Nassau County, Long Island?
This Supreme Court case argued that the practice of segregation in public schools made African American student feel inferior.
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
This period after 1947 was known as a traumatic mass displacement and violence when Britain created a Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan.
What is Partition?
This leader referred to an “iron curtain” that divided Europe into the free West and the Communist East.
Who was Winston Churchill?
These events attempted to root out Soviet sympathizers in the federal government and in Hollywood.
What are the Loyalty Board Investigations?
This is the period between 1946 to 1964 when couples gave birth to the largest generation in U.S. history.
What is the Baby Boom?