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Cold War
Korean & Vietnam Wars
Conflict in Cuba
Movements
100
A senator who became US President after successful debates on television.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
100
The main country the US competed against during the Cold War.
What is the Soviet Union?
100
An unpopular war during the late 1950s-70s.
What is the Vietnam War?
100
The type of government that Cuba became, which worried the United States
What is Communism?
100
Civil rights leader who described his "dream" at the March on Washington
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
200
Assassinated brother of a former US President
Who is Robert Kennedy?
200
This literally separated Communist and democratic areas
What is the Berlin Wall?
200
A country which supported Democratic South Korea
What is the United States?
200
The dictator of Cuba who overthrew a previous dictator
Who is Fidel Castro?
200
She refused to give up a bus seat, starting a national civil rights movement
Who is Rosa Parks?
300
A US President who started Great Society programs to help Americans.
Who is Lyndon Johnson?
300
This US Senator ruined people's reputations when he accused them of being Communist.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
300
A country which supported Communist North Korea
What is China and the Soviet Union?
300
A failed military invasion of Communist Cuba
What is the Bay of Pigs?
300
He led a movement to organize Mexican American migrants.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
400
A US President who promised to get out of Vietnam
Who is Richard Nixon?
400
A British leader who described Communist control of Eastern Europe as an "Iron Curtain"
Who is Winston Churchill?
400
Americans were confused about this war because news reports did not agree with government reports.
What is the Vietnam War?
400
The president who took responsibility for the failure at the Bay of Pigs
Who is John F. Kennedy?
400
People who were born after WWII, and many of them also opposed the Vietnam War.
Who are the baby boomers?
500
The US President right after WWII who wanted to "contain" Communism
Who is Harry Truman?
500
This plan was intended to strengthen Europe against Communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
500
This resolution allowed President Johnson to add US soldiers to the Vietnam War.
What is the Tonkin Gulf Resolution?
500
This ended when the Soviets agreed to remove weapons from Cuba and President Kennedy promised not to invade.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
500
This law prohibited segregation in public places.
What is the Civil Rights Act?