Vocabulary
This is the act of separating groups based on distinguishing characteristics such as race.
What is segregation?
This person was known as a nonviolent Civil Rights activist who gave a famous speech.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Who are MLK and Malcolm X?
What are the United States and the Soviet Union?
The increase in television production in the 1950s was an indication of this.
What is postwar prosperity?
This is pride in one's own country or nation.
What is nationalism?
This person was known as a Civil Rights activist who was not afraid to fight for what he believed.
Who is Malcolm X?
MLK believed in this type of protesting because it sent a powerful message to the most important people.
What is nonviolent resistance?
This Soviet Political party was cruel and harsh towards their own people.
What is the Communist Party?
This article of NATO promised mutual defense for all member nations.
What is Article V?
People born during the population boom after WWII are called this?
Who are baby boomers?
This person became president after his predecessor was assassinated in 1963.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This protest took place on buses across the south during the Civil Rights Movement.
What is the Freedom Ride?
This divided East and West Germany after WWII.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This is what the growth of buying things is called.
What is increased consumption?
This is a satellite launched by the Soviets in the 1950s that was later kept in a public place to promote Soviet nationalism.
What is the Sputnik III?
This person was the leader of the Soviet Union during WWII and the beginning of the Cold War. He was responsible for the expansion of the S.U. into eastern Europe.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
This act, passed in 1965, prohibited racial discrimination in Voting.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This country owned East Germany, controlling the people with a secret police and scaring them into obedience.
Contrary to what his successor, JFK, believed, this president thought that growing the national defense was crucial to the economy.
Who is President Eisenhower?
This is Lyndon B. Johnson's plan to fix the U.S. economy, education, and health system
What is the Great Society?
This was a militant group advocating armed confrontation. They organized antipoverty campaigns aimed towards helping minorities.
What is the Black Panther Party?
This piece of legislation affected all women AND people of color.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
These nations were put under pressure because of the superpowers' arms race in the 1940s-1960s.
What are ALL nations?
In the 1968 election, 3 people ran for president. Name one of them.
Who is Richard Nixon?
Who is George Wallace?
Who is Humphrey?