Cold War Intro
This country believed in communism, and was the great rival of the United States during the Cold War.
What is the Soviet Union?
This country, off the coast of Florida, turned Communist in 1961 and caused an international incident when the Soviet Union built a nuclear missile base there.
What is Cuba?
This man faced rough slides and racism as he integrated baseball in 1948, going on to have a Hall of Fame career.
Who is Jackie Robinson
After President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas in 1963, this man stepped up to build a "Great Society" as President.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
These multi-day riots resulted in over $1,000,000,000 worth of damage, after the LAPD brutally beat a man at a traffic stop.
What are the Rodney King Riots?
This vocab term refers to a war in which at least one side is backed by a stronger, richer country.
What is a proxy war?
Notable events in this war include the My Lai Massacre, Paris Peace Accords, and Fall of Saigon.
What is the Vietnam War?
This Kansas-based Supreme Court case overturned sixty years of precedent and decided that segregation was inherently inequal in schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This 1965 law protected voting rights regardless of race in the United States.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Along with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, this man's election to America's highest office in 2008 is seen by many as the ultimate victory of Civil Rights.
Who is Barack Obama?
This capital city was split into West and East as part of Cold War tensions.
What is Berlin?
America won the Space Race by being the first country to do this.
What is land men on the moon?
Earl Warren led this government group, which was a key ally of the Civil Rights Movement.
What is the Supreme Court?
What is the Black Panther Party?
This phrase has dominated the modern civil rights movement, following the high-profile murders of African-Americans such as Trayvon Martin, George Floyd, and Breonna Taylor.
What is Black Lives Matter?
The Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan were American policies, which aimed at giving this important good to European countries after WWII.
What is money?
The first manmade satellite was named this, and the Soviets launched it into the sky in October of 1957.
What is Sputnik?
This Southern city was a hotbed of the Civil Rights Movement, and it's where Rosa Parks was arrested in 1963.
What is Montgomery?
What is the Nation of Islam?
After their trial, the officers in the Rodney King case were found...
What is not guilty?
The name of a cancer-causing chemical which the United States dropped on villages during the Vietnam War.
What is Agent Orange?
December 26, 1991 is famous for this event.
What is the Fall of the Soviet Union?
Despite initially opposing it, this man ended up supporting MLK's March on Washington to ensure it would remain peaceful and cooperative.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
Like something out of a spy novel, this FBI program spied on Civil Rights leaders and "suspected communists", including catching MLK in multiple extramarital affairs.
What is COINTELPRO?
How many terms did Barack Obama serve in the US Senate before being elected President?
What is one?