Civil Rights People
Cold War Struggles
Civil Rights
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
100
An African-American woman who refused to give up her seat on the bus for a white passenger
Rosa Parks
100
What was the main difference between The U.S. and The Soviet Union?
The Soviet Union wanted to spread communism into Eastern Europe while the U.S. wanted to encourage democratic elections
100
Arms Race
a competition between nations to achieve the more powerful weapons arsenal
100
Warsaw Pact
as part of the Cold War and in response to the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, an agreement signed in 1955 by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania to establish a military alliance for mutual defense
100
hating someone because of their skin color
racism
200
1st African-American student in her state to enroll in an all-white Elementary School
Ruby Bridges
200
What was the Berlin Blockade?
Berlin Blockade
the Soviet blockade of the German city of Berlin, from 1948 to 1949 to stop land travel into the city in hopes of forcing the United States, Great Britain, and France to give up their plan to combine their occupation zones into a single, democratic West German state; the Allied nations resisted the blockade by airlifting food and supplies into Berlin.
200
In your own words explain the goals/purpose of the Civil Rights Movement.
The Civil Rights Movement was an organized
effort by Black Americans to end racial discrimination and gain equal rights under the law.
It began in the late 1940s and ended in the late 1960s
200
Economic Globalization
the increased interdependence of national economies linked by trade, manufacturing, and financial operations carried out by large private companies
200
nonviolence
using peaceful means to bring about change
300
Baby Boom
the large increase in the number of babies born in proportion to the size of the population that took place after World War II and lasted until 1964
300
Third World
the group of nations that had recently gained independence from colonial rule and were not aligned with the West (First World) or the East (Second World) after World War II; the developing nations of the world
300
The march that fought for equal rights to vote in 1965
The Selma March
300
Interdependence
A relationship between countries in which they rely on one another for resources, goods, or services
300
Boycott
Refusal to use or buy services, to show support for a cause.
400
Civil Rights leader known for changing his mind about whether protesters should use violence
Malcom X
400
Two Civil Rights leaders known for their activism: One used Peaceful Protest to carry out his activism, the other encouraged violence and black nationalism to defend themselves at any cost against discrimination.
Martin L. King Jr. & Malcolm X
400
The young people who rode integrated buses through the south and were often attacked or arrested became known as
Freedom Riders
400
the increasing use of products and service consumption between different parts of the world, including economic, cultural, and political connections is called...
Globalization
400
Segregation
The separation of the races
500
A Civil Rights leader famous for his "I Have A Dream" speech
Dr. Martin Luther King JR
500
What's the name?
....formed as part of the Cold War, a military alliance formed in 1949 among the United States, Canada, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, Iceland, Italy, Britain, Denmark, Norway, and Portugal—and expanded to include Greece and Turkey in 1952 and West Germany in 1955—to establish collective security against the Soviet Union
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
500
True or False: After the legal segregation of schools ended, it became easy for African-American students to attend all-white schools.
False-African Americans still had to fight for their rights to freedom
500
the hostile but nonviolent struggle for power between the United States and the Soviet Union, as well as their respective allies, from the end of World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991
Cold War
500
refusing to follow certain laws as a protest
civil disobedience