Cold War/ Civil Rights

Question 1

This helped to end segregation on public buses

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the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Question 2

President Johnson's program to include Medicaid and Medicare which helped seniors and low income families was called

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Great Society

Question 3

This Amendment would outlaw all discrimination based on sex

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Equal Rights Amendment

Question 4

At the end of WW11 Truman felt the need to reform a piece of segregation in America by

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ending segregation in the military.

Question 5

This bill was passed by Truman to help veterans after coming home from WW11

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GI Bill

Question 6

The act banned segregation in public places. It also outlawed discrimination in the workplace.

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Civil Rights of 1964

Question 7

President Eisenhower's policy for the willingness to go to war to oppose communism is called

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brinkmanship

Question 8

Truman's Fair Deal program included all of the following except

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threatening to draft all the striking workers in America

Question 9

This movement called for African American independence and a belief that Africa Americans should reject integration

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Black Power

Question 10

This organized series of protests in which black and white bus riders traveled together to segregated bus stations

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Freedom Rides

Question 11

Which side did the United States support in the civil war in China

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Nationalists

Question 12

Why did President Truman fire Douglas MacArthur during the Korean War?

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He wanted to drop an atomic bomb on China

Question 13

The term "Iron Curtain" was used by Winston Churchill to describe

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the division between Eastern and Western Europe

Question 14

Thurgood Marshall an NAACP lawyer helped win the supreme court case that ended segregation in public schools

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Brown V. Board Of Education

Question 15

President Truman quickly developed a new plan to deal with the Cold War

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A policy known as containment.

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