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100

The idea popularized under the Truman administration that the US and NATO are responsible for stopping the spread of communism

Containment

100

What two major nations competed in the Cold War & Space Race?

What is the U.S. and the USSR.

100

Which Supreme Court Case declared separate spaces were allowed as long as they were equal


Plessy v. Ferguson

100

This amendment affirmed that racial segregation was illegal, as the government is responsible for treating all citizens equal

14th amendment

100

What is the US belief that if we let one nation fall to communism more countries would fall?

Domino Theory

200
The secretary of state comes up with a plan to make sure Europe has its needs met through providing resources including food, money, ect. What is the name of the plan?

Marshall Plan

200

List 2 ways that American citizens protested the Vietnam War

100 points each

answers vary - see Vietnam protest stations WS for review
200

Landmark legislation passed shortly after the assassination of JFK that declares the government should treat all people equally in all spaces

What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

200

Used by many organizations in the civil rights movement including SNCC, SCLC, and CORE, this approach technically broke laws. They made a point to always be peaceful in the approach

Civil Disobedience

200

The female leader of the Delano Grape strike who made a path towards the nonviolent Mexican-American Civil rights movement

Dolores Huerta

300

The nickname for the invisible line dividing Capitalist Western Europe and Communist Western Europe

Iron Curtain

300

Who was the President during the Cuban Missile Crisis

BONUS 100!!! Who was the leader of the Soviet Union

John F. Kennedy

Nikita Khrushchev

300

This non violent protest was the first major success of Martin Luther King Jr. and made Rosa Parks and icon of the civil rights movement

What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

300
My murder made national news and showed the extreme racism and injustice in the South.
Who is Emmett Till?
300

The concentration of African Americans in an urban neighborhood and the concept of "white flight" are examples of this form of segregation

De Facto

400

Who was president at the end of the cold war? He is famous for the quore "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

1989

Ronald Reagan

400

After this event, the Soviet Union and the US made a point to remove nuclear missiles from land close to each other. This is the closest we ever were to nuclear war.

Cuban Missile Crisis

400
What event was the first major challenge to southern schools unwilling to segregate following the Brown v. Board of Education decision?
What was the Little Rock Nine?
400

This supreme court case is responsible for desegregating schools and is one of the first points of progress in the civil rights movement

Brown v. Board
400
This Civil Rights organization is known for their approach in armed resistance, the 10-point program, and investing in their community with things like free breakfast programs

Black Panthers

500

The Pentagon Papers were published making the US's involvement in this war seem ineffective and shows how Americans fighting are in danger.

Vietnam

500

Spread of suspicion about people being communists in order to gain power, usually in political spaces

What is McCarthyism?

500

This legislation ended the discriminatory practices that limited people from voting such as literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses

Voting Rights Act of 1965

500
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?
500

What was the name of the organization Malcom X belonged to 

Nation of Islam