CIVIL RIGHTS

Civil Rights

1

Brown v Board reversed what controversial supreme court decision

Plessy v Ferguson

2

Event that brought MLK Jr. into the forefront of the civil rights movement

What is Rosa Parks arrest or Montgomery Bus Boycotts

3

Group that emerged around WWII that called for more immediate govt response to civil rights issues

What is CORE

4

This group incorporated both black and white college students to help initiate sit ins and freedom rides to help push for civil rights change

What is SNCC

5

James Meredith had the support of both the supreme court and President Kennedy in his effort to be the first student to integrate what college?

What is Univ of Miss.  (Ole Miss)

Conformity

1

Name for the "towns" that became the foundation of the modern day suburbs

What are Levittowns

2

Media form that helped enhance the ideals of the fifties and conformity

What is Television

3

This generation was a product of a post war desire to find stability, settle down and have children.  

What is the Baby Boom Generation

4

This franchise started in California in the early 50's, prompting a monumental change in how we see food

What is McDonalds

5

The development of the highway interstate system was a result of two things.  The increased popularity of the automobile and ___________________

Communist Hysteria, Escape routes from nuclear attack, 

chrono first

1

Rosa Parks Arrest, Desegregation of Military, Little Rock Nine, Freedom Rides

What is Desegregation of Military

2

Credit Card, TV, Sputnik, NASA

What is TV

3

SCLC, SNCC, CORE, NAACP

What is NAACP

4

Yalta Conf, Tehran Conf, Potsdam Conf, NATO

Tehran

5

Brown v Board, McCarthyism, Truman Doctrine,  Freedom Rides

What is Truman Doctrine 

Roosevelt Truman Eisenhower JFK

1

Korean War

Truman

2

NATO

Truman

3

Federal Highway Project

Eisenhower

4

Created Fair Employment Practices Commission in Govt

Roosevelt

5

Little Rock Nine Episode

Eisenhower