Obama's Presidency
First African American President
Barack Obama
Who hated the Jews as the Chancellor of Germany?
Adolph Hitler
The 46-year fear the capitalist, democratic U.S. had with the dictatorship Soviet Union without warfare is known as
the Cold War
Who led the Civil Rights movement in the late 50s and early 60s?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The protest on February 1, 1960 when four black students requested service at Woolworth's lunch counter is known as a
sit-in
What years did Obama serve?
Two four-year terms 2009-2016
Wrote a famous diary about hiding from the Nazis
The Diary of Anne Frank
When all property is publicly owned and each person is paid according to their abilities and needs, it's called
Communism
What laws had enforced segregation of the races since the Civil War and Reconstruction?
Jim Crow laws
Buses ridden through the Deep South to encourage Black Voting were known as
Freedom Rides
What was another name for Obama Care?
Affordable Care Act
Referred to as Hitler's genocide or systematic murder of all Jews
the Final Solution
Aid to nations who were struggling against communist movements became known as
the Truman Doctrine
The first successful, year-long boycott in Alabama when Rosa Parks refused to vacate her bus seat.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Black radical speaker who belonged to the Nation of Islam
Malcolm X
What war did Obama inherit and end in August 2010?
The Iraq War (2003-2011)
Jews took trains or walked to be murdered here
China and South Korea fell to Communism. What war did we fight under LBJ to stop communism?
JFK sent troops to fight in the Vietnam War in 1960.
Who signed the Civil Rights Act of July 1964?
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Patrolled neighborhoods, gave free breakfast, adopted black rather than Negro or colored
Black Panthers
Although Hillary Clinton had 3 million votes, who won the 2016 election?
Donald Trump
How many Jews were killed by the Nazis?
By 1945 when WWII ended, about six million Jews had been murdered.
Under whom and when did U.S. troops withdraw from South Vietnam against North Vietnam
President Richard Nixon in January 1973 with the Paris Peace Accords treaty
Who signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Established by Nixon to close economic gap between blacks and whites
affirmative action