Unit 6 - "Early Cold War"
The "Cold War" was an ideological conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union over their respective ideologies of Capitalism and this rivaling ideology.
This famous civil rights leader gave the famous "I Have a Dream" Speech at the famous March on Washington, advocating for nonviolent protests across the country.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
The "Space Race" would start after the Soviet Union launched the first ever satellite into orbit around the United States named this.
What is Sputnik
The United States fought which group in the Vietnam War?
x2 = What tactic did they use to combat the USA?
Who are the Vietcong
x2 = Guerrilla Warfare
What is the Korean War
This American foreign policy was also a fear that if one nation fell to Soviet influence, then others would follow; leading to the United States.
What is Domino Theory
The first major protest for the Civil Rights movement was located at this southern city, with the local Civil Rights leaders organizing a bus boycott, which had infamously segregated their passengers.
What is Montgomery, Alabama
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis
The United States had to implement this to continue to send troops into Vietnam.
What is a draft
This Civil Rights leader advocated for ideas such as "Black Nationalism" and "Self-Defense" against white america
Who is Malcolm X
This American cultural phenomena was a reaction to the emerging "Cold War" with Americans growing fearful of the Soviet Union and the possibility of nuclear war.
What is the Red Scare
The murder of this young child would provide the momentum to push the Civil Rights Movement into the limelight of the American people, with the image of a dead child on the front of many magazines.
Who is Emmett Till
This notable vice-president would become president after the assassination of John. F Kennedy
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson
What were the two atrocities during the Vietnam War that greatly turned the American populace against the War, one happening in Vietnam and the other the United States? (300 for each correct answer)
What is the My Lai Massacre & Kent State Shooting
The rampant US consumerism can best be seen at this location, a spot for teens and economic freedom
What is the Shopping Mall
The first major battle of the "Cold War" was located in this major city where the Soviets tried to secure the American portion of the city, which barely held in American hands by a miracle
What is Berlin, Germany
This major Supreme Court decision saw the end of segregated schools all across the United States.
What is Brown v Board of Education
This new popular invention greatly helped John F. Kennedy in the 1960 Election, especially with the female voting base within the United States
What is the Television
What is Vietnamization
This famous governor of Alabama would become the face of the segregationist movement and would later spoil an election for Hubert Humphrey against Richard Nixon
Who is Governor George Wallace of Alabama
This famous American couple was arrested and later executed for the crimes of espionage for leaking classified documents to the Soviet Union.
Who were the Rosenburgs
SNCC was one of the most prevalent Civil Rights group, helping many people organize all across the United States. What group of people did SNCC primarily work with?
What are Students & Young People
SNCC = "Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee"
The United States tried to eliminate Fidel Castro and his communist government in this failed invasion of Cuban exiles hoping to return democracy to Cuba.
What is the "Bay of Pigs"
These leaked classified documents revealed that President Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon had all lied about the Vietnam War or intentionally misled the American public.
What is the Pentagon Papers
This famous resolution gave Lyndon B. Johnson the powers the expand US forces into South Vietnam to help protect "American soldiers" abroad.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution