A group of African American students that were initially prevented from entering a racially segregated school.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
100
This piece of legislation was developed in NC to address the issue of the racial desgregation of the state's schools.
What is the Pearsall Plan?
100
Instrumental in ending the Cold War stating "tear down this wall."
Who is President Ronald Reagan?
100
Prohibits any jurisdiction form implementing any denial of the right to vote on account of "race, color, or language minority status."
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
100
Civil Rights Activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to challenge ongoing discrimination
Who are the Freedom Riders?
200
A civil rights activist who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
200
In 1973, this was created to establish peace in Vietnam and an end to the Vietnam War.
What are the Paris Peace Accords?
200
Brought an end to the Vietnam War through the Paris Peace Accords.
Who is President Richard Nixon?
200
Upholded the constitutionalality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal"
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
200
Speech given by American civil right activist calling for an end to racism in the United States.
What is the "I Have A Dream Speech?"
300
I am often credited with sparking the second wave of American feminism in the 20th century.
Who is Betty Friedan?
300
The United States gave economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
300
Dispatched troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to prevent local, angry mobs from interfering with the integration of a high school.
Who is President Dwight D. Eisenhower?
300
The Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
What is Brown vs Board of Education?
300
The worst nuclear power plant accident in history.
What is the Chernobyl disaster?
400
An African-American boy who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman.
Who is Emmett Till?
400
This theory speculated that if one state in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow suit.
What is the Domino Theory?
400
Ordered what became known as the "Bay of Pigs" Invasion.
Who is President John F. Kennedy?
400
Designed to guarantee equal rights for all women.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment?
400
Marches and Protests held in Alabama that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement.
What is the Selma March?
500
The lawyer who argued before the Supreme Court for the victory in Brown v. Board of Education, a decision that desegregated public schools.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
500
A collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
500
Signed the Civil Right Act of 1964 into Legislation, banning racial discrimination in public facilities, interstate commerce, the workplace, and housing.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
500
An intergovermental military alliance whereby its members agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
What is NATO?
500
The ideological conflict and physical boundary erected by the Soviet Untion after WW II to seal itself off from others