Cold War Beginnings
This international organization was created after World War II to help prevent future wars.
What is the United Nations?
Communist North Korea invaded this neighboring country in 1950.
What is South Korea?
This Supreme Court case declared segregated schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Fidel Castro led a communist revolution in this island nation.
What is Cuba?
Four college students launched this protest at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in 1960.
What are the Greensboro Sit-Ins?
Germany and Berlin were divided into these two sections after World War II.
What are East and West Germany (East and West Berlin)?
Communist forces from this nation entered the Korean War to support North Korea.
What is China?
This student led a protest walkout at R. R. Moton High School in Virginia.
Who is Barbara Johns?
This failed invasion attempted to overthrow Fidel Castro.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
This law banned segregation and discrimination in public places.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This U.S. foreign policy aimed to stop the spread of communism.
What is containment?
The Korean War eventually ended with this result.
What is a stalemate?
This NAACP attorney argued Brown v. Board before the Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This 1962 crisis nearly led to nuclear war between the U.S. and Soviet Union
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
These activists rode buses through the South to test desegregation laws.
Who are the Freedom Riders?
This plan provided financial aid to rebuild Europe after World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
President Eisenhower’s nuclear deterrence policy was called this.
What is massive retaliation?
Virginia’s organized effort to block desegregation was known as this.
What is Massive Resistance?
President Nixon’s policy of replacing American troops with South Vietnamese forces was called this.
What is Vietnamization?
Dr. King delivered this famous speech during the March on Washington.
What is the “I Have a Dream” speech?
This military alliance was formed to protect Western Europe from Soviet aggression.
What is NATO?
This communist alliance in Eastern Europe formed in response to NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
These Black students integrated Norfolk public schools in 1959
Who are the Norfolk 17?
This scandal forced President Nixon to resign in 1974.
What is Watergate?
This law protected voting rights for African Americans.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?