Europe
The imaginary line dividing Eastern and Western Europe
What is the Iron Curtain
The first and largest Asian country to become communist.
What is China
The name of a small island in the Caribbean that became the focus of the World's attention in October, 1962.
What is Cuba
America's most celebrated civil rights leader.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
The city and state where a bus boycott led by Martin Luther King took place.
Where is Montgomery, Alabama.
The divided capital of a divided country
What is (East & West) Berlin
A civil war in this country was the first test of the newly formed United Nations.
What is Korea
The conflict between the U.S. & U.S.S.R. during the Cuban Missile Crisis was over these items.
What is Soviet nuclear missiles being placed in Cuba.
This woman's refusal to give up her seat on a crowded bus ignited a famous civil rights protest that made MLK a national figure.
Who is Rosa Parks.
At 1963's March on Washington, MLK gave his most famous speech, now known as.......
What is the I Have a Dream Speech.
A state of tension (without actual fighting) that existed between the U.S. & U.S.S.R.
What is the Cold War.
The Korean War ended where it started, with North & South Korea divided at this geographic border.
What is the 38th Parallel.
The United States President at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is John F. Kennedy.
He successfully argued Brown V Board of Education before the Supreme Court, only to end his legal career as one of its Justices.
Who is Thurgood Marshall.
They traveled together on integrated buses from the North into the deep South only to be violently attacked by people fighting to preserve segregation.
Who were the Freedom Riders.
The military alliance of Western Europe and America. It is nicknamed NATO.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
The Domino Theory held that if this country fell to communism, all Southeast Asian countries would soon follow.
What is Vietman.
The revolutionary leader who seized power in Cuba and made it a communist country.
Who is Fidel Castro.
This organization has long fought for the rights of African Americans. Its nickname is the NAACP.
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
This was the Supreme Court case the established the legitimacy of the doctrine Separate but Equal and led to the passage of numerous Jim Crow laws in the southern states.
What is Plessy V Ferguson.
The name of the Eastern European military alliance led by the Soviet Union
What is the Warsaw Pact
Due to inequities in the draft a large percentage of those called to fight in the Vietnam war shared these two traits?
What is underprivileged and minorities.
Instead of bombing Cuba, John F. Kennedy decided to prevent Soviet ships from reaching Cuba, a strategy generally referred to as a..........
What is a blockade
He was the President of the United States who had the privilege to sign into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Who was Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ)
A nickname for the nine students that successfully integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Alabama.
Who are the "Little Rock Nine".