Cold War/Civil Rights Movement

Question 1

Are you amazed by how much you have learned about the Cold War and the Civil Rights movement?

Accepted Answer

Absolutely

Question 2

Openness and freedom, especially in regards to religion, press, and speech

Accepted Answer

Glasnost

Question 3

What methods to achieve change did Cesar Chavez adopt?

Accepted Answer

Hunger strikes and boycotts

Question 4

In what war did we succeed in containing or stopping the spread of communism?

Accepted Answer

Korean War

Question 5

What did Governor Faubus do with the students called the Little Rock Nine?

Accepted Answer

defied the President and barred the doors

Question 6

Who did Cesar Chavez fight to gain rights for?

Accepted Answer

Mexican Americans

Question 7

How did Bull Connor impact the Civil Rights movement?

Accepted Answer

He was so brutal, white activists joined in.

Question 8

An imaginary boundary that separated democratic and communist countries in Europe is what?

Accepted Answer

Iron Curtain

Question 9

Political and economic restructuring that increased private ownership of land and businesses

Accepted Answer

Perestroika

Question 10

Why did the U.S. participate in the Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine?

Accepted Answer

We wanted to build economies and democracy

Question 11

What is the "shoot first, die second" theory known as?

Accepted Answer

Mutual Assured Destruction

Question 12

What military pact did the Communist countries join?

Accepted Answer

Warsaw Pact

Question 13

What did SNCC and lunch counter sit-ins achieve?

Accepted Answer

Desegregated lunch counters

Question 14

What was the goal of the March on Washington?

Accepted Answer

Demonstrate to Congress that they wouldn't give up

Question 15

Why did the U.S. and Britain participate in the Berlin Airlift?

Accepted Answer

Soviets blocked West Berlin

Question 16

What was Senator McCarthy guilty of?

Accepted Answer

Accusing people of being communist

Question 17

What rights were given to American citizens with the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendment?

Accepted Answer

end of slavery, due process, vote

Question 18

What did the Montgomery Bus Boycott accomplish?

Accepted Answer

Integrated buses

Question 19

What is the theory that if one country falls to communism that others would as well?

Accepted Answer

Domino Theory

Question 20

What is the job of the Supreme Court?

Accepted Answer

decide if an action is legal

Question 21

What decision did the U.S. Supreme Court reach in Plessy v. Ferguson?

Accepted Answer

All facilities could be separated if equal

Question 22

What caused the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Accepted Answer

Soviets put nukes in Cuba

Question 23

Who had the most influence on MLK Jr.?

Accepted Answer

Gandhi and Thoreau

Question 24

U.S. took nukes out of Turkey, Russia took nukes out of Cuba, was the end to what crisis?

Accepted Answer

Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 25

What Civil Rights leader changed his views from separatism to integration and nonviolence?

Accepted Answer

Malcolm X

Question 26

What was an example of Jim Crow Laws?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 27

What military pact did the U.S. join?

Accepted Answer

NATO

Question 28

What happened in U.S. schools after the Brown v. Board of Education decision?

Accepted Answer

Many schools closed down, integration was very slow

Question 29

Who was the main attorney in Brown v. Board of Education?

Accepted Answer

Thurgood Marshall

Question 30

Who supported North and South Vietnam?

Accepted Answer

S. Vietnam and U.S. v. N. Vietnam, Russia and China

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