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Took over as president of the U.S. after FDR died:
What is Harry S. Truman
100
Leader of the USSR:
What is Joseph Stalin
100
Franklin Delano Roosevelt believed that the date December 7, 1941 lived in infamy, because
What is the day Japan bombed Pearl Harbor
100
Most of the people in internment camps in the US during WWII were:
What is Japanese Americans
100
The direct cause of US involvement in WWII was:
What is the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
200
What country found itself divided into communist and non-communist zones during the 20th century?
What is Germany?
200
The Truman Doctrine of the late 1940s was:
What is a US policy of offering aid to countries threatened by communism
200
Truman fired MacArthur because...
What is MacArthur publicly criticized the president's policy of limited war
200
Eisenhower is credited for coming up with the interstate highway system T/F
What is true
200
The US dropped 2 atomic bombs. What cities did they destroy?
What is Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
300
The Manhatten Project
What is developed the atomic bomb
300
Who was the big three?
What is Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin
300
What two events MOST likely contributed to a chance in the focus of SNCC from a stance of non-violence to a more agressive approach to the Civil Rights?
What is the Watts Riots and the assasination of Martin Luther King Jr.
300
What was the result of Plessy vs. Ferguson?
What is seperate but equal
300
Brown vs. Board resulted in..
What is segregation in public schools was inherently unequal
400
Greatest impact on the expansion of Civil Rights for African Americans?
What is Voting RIghts Act of 1965
400
SNCC vs SCLC
What is SNCC wanted to use more confrontational strategies
400
President Lyndon B. Johnson pursuaded congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1965. The primary purpose of this act was to.
What is prohibit discrimination
400
Who was the first African American to play Major League Baseball?
What is Jackie Robinson
400
The supreme court decision that overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson in 1954 was called:
What is Brown. V Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
500
What 1957 Civil Rights Movement was a "show-down" between federal and state level of government of desegregation? In a school setting.
What is the Little Rock Crisis
500
"A bomb hurled from a passing car blasted a crowded Negro church today, killing four girls in their Sunday school classes and triggering outbreaks of violence that left two more persons dead in the streets. Two Negro youths were killed in outbreaks of shooting seven hours after the 16th Street Baptist Church was bombed, and a third was wounded. As darkness closed over the city hours later, shots crackled sporadically in the Negro sections. Stones smashed into cars driven by whites." The Washington Post, September 16, 1963
What is Birmingham