Terms
Important People
Civil Rights
Leaders in Civil Rights
Miscellaneous
100
Term coined by Winston Churchill about the spread of Communism
What is the Iron Curtain?
100
U.S. General fired by the President for disobeying orders not to cross the 38th parallel during the Korean War
Who was Douglas McArthur?
100
Laws represented by the image above
What are Jim Crow laws?
100
Lawyer who argued Brown vs. Board of Education before the Supreme Court and later became the first African American judge on the Supreme court
Who was Thurgood Marshall?
100
Brothers that were both involved in American politics during the civil rights era and were both assassinated
Who were John F. Kennedy (President) and Robert F. Kennedy (senator)?
200
The U.S. policy towards Communism after WWII
What is Containment?
200
First secretary of the Communist Party in the U.S.S.R. who threatened to bury the U.S. in the fight for/against Communism
Who was Nikita Krushchev?
200
The 1954 case that opened a legal way to desegregate public schools
What was Brown vs. Board of Education?
200
Her actions by refusing to give up her seat set in the motion the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Who was Rosa Parks?
200
Medium that helped Americans see and understand what was going on in the civil rights movement and how local governments were reacting
What is Television?
300
Location that divided the country of Korea into North and South
What is the 38th parallel?
300
Wisconsin senator that caused widespread panic in the U.S. called "the red scare"
Who was Joseph McCarthy?
300
The law that was passed almost 100 years after the 15th Amendment that actually made the amendment valid
What was the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
300
President who signed the Voting Rights act into law and work diligently on passing civil rights legislation
Who was Lyndon B. Johnson?
300
Assassination committed by James Earl Ray in Memphis Tennessee in 1968
What was the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
400
Tense standoff between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. over the location of nuclear missiles close to the United States
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
400
British Prime Minister who accused the Soviets of creating an "Iron Curtain"
Who was Winston Churchill?
400
The event in which Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous "I have a dream" speech
What was the March on Washington?
400
Civil rights icon assassinated on April 4, 1968 known for non-violent protest
Who was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
400
Important "race" in which the Soviets were first to succeed, but in which President Kennedy said we must work to lead the world
What was the "Space Race"?
500
A war fought in S.E. Asia to contain Communism in which many Americans were drafted and many lost their lives.
What was the Vietnam War?
500
Soviet backed leader of a Communist revolution on the island of Cuba
Who was Fidel Castro?
500
Law that banned segregation in all public places in 1964 "to honor the memory of President Kennedy"
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1964
500
Civil rights worker who advocated for the rights of migrant workers by creating the United Farm Workers of American along with Dolores Huerta
Who was Cesar Chavez?
500
City in the southern portion of Alabama in which major civil rights activity took place in the 1960's
What is Montgomery, Alabama?