Cold War Basics
This term describes the tense rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II.
What is the Cold War?
These figures were blacklisted after refusing to answer HUAC’s questions
Who are the Hollywood Ten?
After World War II, many Americans moved to suburbs during this major housing expansion.
What is the housing boom?
This woman’s refusal to give up her bus seat helped launch the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This president sent federal troops to enforce desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This kind of warfare terrified Americans because both superpowers could destroy entire cities with a single attack.
This president announced that the U.S. would help countries like Greece and Turkey resist communism.
Who is Harry Truman?
These two major postwar labor actions showed economic tension in the United States and pushed Truman to take a tough stance against labor.
What are the railroad and miner strikes?
This Supreme Court case ruled that separate schools were inherently unequal.
What is Brown V. Board of Education?
This amendment banned the poll tax in federal elections.
What is the 24th Amendment?
This city in Germany became divided between communist and non-communist sections after World War II.
What is Berlin?
This committee investigated suspected communist influence inside the United States.
What is the HUAC?/House Un American Activites Committee?
This domestic program was Truman’s attempt to continue the spirit of the New Deal.
What is the Fair Deal?
This leader became the best-known spokesman for nonviolent protest in the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is MLK?
This Civil Rights Act, passed during Eisenhower’s presidency, was the first major civil rights law since Reconstruction.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1957?
This military alliance, formed in 1949, said that an attack on one member would be treated as an attack on all.
What is NATO?
This Chinese Communist Leader came to power in 1949
Who is Mao Zedong?
This plan used economic aid to help rebuild Europe and prevent the spread of communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
These 1960 protests, led largely by Black college students, challenged segregation at lunch counters across the South.
What were the sit-ins?
This major highway law under Eisenhower helped create the interstate highway system.
What is the Interstate Highway Act?
This congressional body helped oversee issues related to atomic weapons and nuclear policy in the early Cold War.
WWhat is the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy?
This case, heavily pushed by Richard Nixon, involved a former government official convicted of perjury after being accused of Soviet spying.
What is the Alger Hiss case?
This law limited the power of labor unions after World War II.
What is the Taft-Hartley Act ?
This student became the first Black student admitted to the University of Mississippi under federal protection.
Who was James Meredith?
This Arkansas governor used the National Guard to block Black students from entering Central High School.
Who was Orval Faubus?