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US History Final Unit Quiz
US History Final Unit Quiz
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Civil Rights and Cold War (United States History)
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1
Jackie Robinson was the 1st black Major League Baseball player. What is this an example of?
Religious desegregation
Cultural desegregation
Political desegregation
Bribery
2
Which US policy wanted to stop the spread of Communism in the world?
Detente
Containment
Domino Theory
Segregation
3
What did the US do in Latin America to combat Communism?
Took over and placed Capitalism
Allowed for free elections
Nothing: they didn't care
Supported awful regimes
4
What does M.A.D. stand for? (You launch your nukes, we'll launch ours!)
More American Deaths
Mutually Associated Disease
Mutually Assisted Destruction
Mutually Assured Destruction
5
Where was the first battleground of the Cold War?
South America
Asia
Africa
Europe
6
What happened to the Soviet Union?
It collapsed in the early 1990s
The won the Cold War
It was never real and reality is an illusion
Nothing. It's still around
7
After
Brown v. Board
, desegregation happened immediately in all parts of the United States.
False
True
Maybe
I don't know
8
In
The Long Walk Home
, what comforted Odessa's struggle with the boycott?
Her daughter, Selma
Her Church and her faith
The local soda shoppe
Miriam Thompson
9
What Supreme Court case made segregation illegal in the United States?
Loving v. Virginia
University of California Regents v. Bakke
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
10
What does
The Long Walk Home
teach us about civil rights?
That allies are important in overcoming obstacles
To stand up to the bullies and help anyone we can
That African Americans struggled for Civil Rights
That whites were also really important in this struggle
11
During the 1950s, which group of people were most likely to live in poverty?
Whites
Blacks
12
According to John Green, when did the Cold War start to have its beginnings?
Before World War II
After World War II
During World War II
The US and Russia have hated each other forever
13
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, which two leaders sent letters back and forth to each other?
JKF and Nikita Khrushchev
Lyndon Johnson and Nikita Khrushchev
Lyndon Johnson and Joseph Stalin
JFK and Joseph Stalin
14
The Korean War and the Vietnam War are known as what types of wars?
Proxy Wars
Cold Wars
Nearby Wars
Cultural Wars
15
This man helped argue for
Brown v. Board
and became the 1st black Supreme Court Justice.
Martin Luther King Jr
Earl Warren
Rosa Parks
Thurgood Marshall
16
Which Civil Rights Movement protest was shown in
The Long Walk Home
Bus Boycotts All Over The Place
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Chicago Race Riots
Freedom Riders
17
During the Cold War, what powerful bomb was made?
Atomic Bomb
Bath Bomb
Chlorine Bomb
Hydrogen Bomb
18
What major event almost sent the world in to nuclear war in the early 1960s?
Vietnam War
Civil Rights Movement
Detente
Cuban Missile Crisis
19
Who was a key player in the Civil Rights Movement?
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King Jr
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
20
Which famous woman was arrested in Montgomery when she refused to give up her seat on a bus?
Rosa Perks
Odessa Cotter
Rosa Parks
Miriam Thompson