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Arrested after refusing to give up a bus seat
Rosa Parks
100
U.S. policy towards Communism
containment
100
Resolving disputes in court
litigation
100
Proved that many Americans had been spying for the government
Venona Papers
100
Soviet Union refused to allow elections in which country?
Poland
200
NAACP lawyer, argued the Brown Case
Thurgood Marshall
200
Designed to aid a war-torn Europe
Marshall Plan
200
Plessy v. Ferguson upheld the doctrine of
separate but equal
200
based on the idea of collective security
NATO
200
Soviets cut off Eastern Europe with the
Iron Curtain
300
Wielded an axe handle to drive out African American customers
Lester Maddox
300
Gave federal courts the power to register African American voters
Civil Rights Act of 1957
300
Overturned the Plessy decision
Brown v. Board of Education
300
Policy of making military power so strong no one would dare attack
deterrence
300
Who were the Little Rock Nine?
Nine African American students barred from entering a whites-only school
400
Created the Polio vaccine
Jonas Salk
400
Provided loans to help returning veterans buy new homes and attend college
G.I. Bill
400
Marked the end of legal segregation in schools
Brown v. Board of Education
400
Communist-dominated countries that served as a buffer zone for the Soviet Union
satellite countries
400
Executed for selling atomic secrets to the Soviet Union
The Rosenbergs
500
Anti-Communist who was a spiritual advisor to several Presidents
Billy Graham
500
Truman Doctrine also sought to aid which two countries?
Greece & Turkey
500
1950 case won by an African American who wanted to attend Law School at University of Texas
Sweatt v. Painter
500
Known as the largest demonstration for human rights in U.S. history
March on Washington
500
Court case that was a major turning point in the Civil Rights Movement
Brown v. Board of Education