Cold War
What is the Containment Policy?
When the United States dropped supplies to the citizens of West Berlin?
The Berlin Airlift.
Was arrested for sitting in the white area of the bus starting the Montgomery bus boycott?
Who is Rosa Parks.
I was involved in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and gave a speech at the March on Washington, who am I?
Who is MLK?
What is the US belief that if we let one nation fall to communism more countries would fall?
What is the Domino Theory?
When the Soviet Union provided nuclear weapons to a certain Caribbean country .
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis.
bill that gave veterans of WWII benefits like house loans and unemployment compensation?
What is the GI Bill
This court case was finalized in 1964 banning segregation in schools.
What is the Brown vs. Board of Education?
We rode to the southern parts of the country protesting against segregation in interstate buses .
Who is the Freedom Riders?
President Nixon's plan to bring US troops home while training Vietnamese troops.
What is Vietnamization?
This was the artificial satellite that the Soviet Union shot into space?
What is Sputnik?
Policy that allowed the US to provide financially or militarily aid so they don't turn to communism?
What is the Marshall Plan
Nickname for laws that promoted segregation.
What is Jim Crow Laws?
We use self defense to fight for African American rights and held different programs to support our community in Oakland California.
Who is The Black Panthers Party
Which amendment changed the voting age from 18 to 21?
What is the 26th Amendment?
What is the name of the event where the US sent troops to overthrow Fidel Castro?
What is the Bay of Pigs?
Organization where member countries pledged to defend each other if attacked?
What is NATO
What event was the first major challenge to southern schools unwilling to desegregate following the Brown v. Board of Education decision?
What was the Little Rock Nine?
I was an NAACP lawyer that became famous during the Brown v. Board of Education trial that ended racial segregation in schools.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
What was the surprise attack by the Vietcong on during the Vietnamese new year?
Tet Offensive
This was the first major military conflict between the West and the Communist
Korean War
Senator that stated he had a list of suspected communist working for the US government
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
Banned discrimination based on race, ethnicity, gender or religion in public places?
Civil Rights Act of 1964?
I started the Feminist Movement after I wrote the book The Feminist Mystic.
Who is Betty Friedan ?
This resolution was passed by the congress giving President Johnson the power to use all military means to protect South Vietnam from communism.
What was The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?