People
Gave the "I Have a Dream" speech
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Arrested for not giving up her seat on the Montgomery bus station.
Rosa Parks
The evangelist whose meetings were televised.
Billy Graham
The war that the United States and Cuba threatened to use nuclear weapons against each other for over 40 years.
The Cold War
What is the group that was started to protect our national security?
CIA
First man to orbit the earth
John Glenn
The Act that guaranteed that civil rights of Native Americans would not be taken away by tribal governments.
Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968
Invented the polio vaccine
Dr. Jonas Salk
The country that Fidel Castro was dictator of during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Cuba
How did the Korean War end?
A truce
First Black American Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall
The act that ensured equal housing rights to all Americans no matter their skin color, religion, or natural origin.
Fair Housing Act of 1968
First American in space
Alan B. Shepard, JR.
Which President created the Great Society?
Lyndon B. Johnson
Made by communists to separate the two parts of Berlin
The Berlin Wall
First Black American to be an adviser to the President
Robert Weaver
Court case that the Supreme Court ended segregation in public schools.
Brown v. Board of Education
Invented the modern computer operated by a mouse
Douglas Engelbart
The President that forced the Soviet Union to remove any nuclear weapons they had delivered to Cuba
John F. Kennedy
What was a way that people peacefully protested during the Civil Rights movement?
Freedom rides, sit-ins, March on Washington...
Developed the ARPAnet
Leonard Kleinrock
The act that outlawed discrimination in employment and public places.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
First Black American four-star general
Chappie James
America's first nuclear-powered submarine
USS Nautilus
What did the GI Bill of Rights make available to servicemen returning from war?
Low-interest loans