Civil Rights
Which group was fighting for their rights during the Civil Rights Movement?
African Americans
What is the economic system of the US?
Capitalism
True or False: The US and the Soviet Union never directly went to war with each other.
True
What was the economic system of the Soviet Union?
Communism
Which court case ended segregation in schools?
Brown v. Board of Education
In what document was the policy of containment established?
Truman Doctrine
Which war was lost and cost the US much influence on the world stage?
Vietnam
Rigged elections and refused to give up territory they had taken in the war
Which civil rights leader used nonviolent resistance to protest the treatment of his people?
Martin Luther King Jr.
What policy granted financial aid to nations that swore off communism?
Marshall Plan
Which war represented the US' first major attempt to use military force to enforce containment?
Korean War
What was the division of the eastern and western Europe described by Churchill?
Iron Curtain
Which civil rights leader was the spokesperson for the Nation of Islam?
Malcom X
What was the first victory for the US policy of containment?
Berlin Airlift
What event led Britain and France to accept that they were no longer superpowers?
Suez Crisis
Who was the Soviet leader that was mostly responsible for the end of the Soviet Union?
Gorbachev
What city organized the first bus boycott during the Civil Rights Movement?
Baton Rouge
What event caused the US to transition from containment to détente?
Vietnam War
What country did the Soviet Union invade and fail to conquer in a similar fashion to the US' invasion of Vietnam?
Afghanistan
What was the first satellite launched into space?
Sputnik