Cold War/Civil Rights Review

Cold War Leaders

100

Leader of the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis

John F. Kennedy

200

President of the United States who decreased tensions with the Soviet Union before resigning in 1974

Nixon

300

Leader of Cuba during the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Fidel Castro

400

Leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Nikita Khrushchev

500

President of the United States who ended the Korean war and enforced the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Dwight Eisenhower

Vietnam War

100

American tactic that hoped to find and kill Viet Cong soldiers wherever they were. 

Search and Destroy

200

Hit and Run tactics used by the Viet Cong against the United States

Guerilla Warfare

300

Chemical gel dropped from planes to burn Viet Cong soldiers

Napalm

400

Name of the village where Lieutenant Calley's troops massacred hundreds of civilians, provoking outrage against the war.

My Lai

500

Leader of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War

Ho Chi Minh

Cold War misc.

100

Crisis provoked by the Soviet attempt to place nuclear weapons in an island nation in the Caribbean. 

Cuban Missile Crisis

200

A competition to build the largest and most advanced stockpile of Nuclear Weapons.

Arms Race

300

East-Asian war that ended in stalemate between countries supported by the United States and China.

Korean War

400

Leader of a "red scare" in America who claimed he knew of Communists in the government, military, and Hollywood.

Joseph McCarthy

500

Crisis caused by a Soviet Blockade of the German Capital

Berlin Airlift

Civil Rights Leaders

100

Nonviolent leader of the SCLC who was famous for giving inspiring, hopeful speeches.

Martin Luther King Jr. 

200

Leader of the Black Panthers who believed in obtaining Civil Rights "at any cost."

Malcolm X

300

Name of the group of students who braved a racist mob to go to Central High School in Alabama

the Little Rock Nine

400

Woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus, sparking a city-wide boycott in Montgomery, Alabama

Rosa Parks

500

President of the United States who ended desegregation as part of his "Southern Strategy" to win the 1968 election.

Richard Nixon

Civil Rights Groups

100

African American Civil Rights Group that believed in using violence or threats of violence to achieve their goals.

Black Panthers

200

Christian group that used boycotts and marches, formed by a group of Baptist ministers.

Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC).

300

Group that used occupations to protest racism against Native Americans

American Indian Movement (AIM).

400

Civil Rights group formed by student protesters who used sit-ins and marches to fight for equality.

Student nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

500

Civil Rights group formed in 1909 by a group of lawyers that used legal action to end segregation.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).