Cold War Origins & Civil Rights Movement

Question 1

First African American to attend the University of Mississippi, he later became a leader in the civil rights movement.

Accepted Answer

James Meredith

Question 2

What group organized the Voter Education Project in the rural areas of the Deep South?

Accepted Answer

Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Question 3

Why was Minnijean Brown expelled from Central High School in Little Rock, AR?

Accepted Answer

Dumping chili on the head of a white student

Question 4

Eastern European nations under communist sympathizing governments were known as these types of nations.

Accepted Answer

Satellite

Question 5

Why did critics of Martin Luther King Jr. say the peaceful protests were ineffective?

Accepted Answer

Continued economic problems for African Americans

Question 6

Which of the following was caused by poverty, a lack of religion, rising divorce rates, pop culture, and other factors?

Accepted Answer

Juvenile delinquency

Question 7

Started as a response to the arrest of Rosa Parks.

Accepted Answer

Montgomery Bus Boycotts

Question 8

Four African Americans refused to leave a white-only diner and began these peaceful protests around the country.

Accepted Answer

Sit-ins

Question 9

This new style of music was popular amongst teens and young adults, creating the first generation gap in US pop culture.

Accepted Answer

Rock n Roll

Question 10

These Southern laws enforced racial segregation.

Accepted Answer

Jim Crow Laws

Question 11

What Supreme Court case ended segregation in public schools?

Accepted Answer

Brown v. Board of Education

Question 12

Helped organize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.

Accepted Answer

Fannie Lou Hamer

Question 13

Which of the following was NOT a military upgrade under President Eisenhower, despite his lowering defense spending?

Accepted Answer

Computer systems

Question 14

Following the withdrawal of Japanese troops, this nation fought a civil war between nationalists & communists.

Accepted Answer

China

Question 15

This senator led the charge in rooting out Communist sympathizers from the US government during the Second Red Scare.

Accepted Answer

Joseph R. McCarthy

Question 16

Lawyer for the NAACP, the first African American Supreme Court Justice.

Accepted Answer

Thurgood Marshall

Question 17

What was the name of President Truman's domestic agenda that Congress refused to pass during his second term in office?

Accepted Answer

Fair Deal

Question 18

President Truman ordered this mission to spare the lives of Berliners in 1948-1949 during the Berlin Blockade.

Accepted Answer

Berlin Airlift

Question 19

Which President sent federal troops into the South to protect the educational rights of African Americans (Little Rock)?

Accepted Answer

President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 20

The Soviet Union successfully launched this into orbit in 1957 to start the Space Race.

Accepted Answer

Sputnik

Question 21

President Eisenhower created this agency to conduct covert operations in foreign nations to aid in U.S. causes overseas.

Accepted Answer

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Question 22

Which minister encouraged nonviolent methods to end segregation and get the right to vote?

Accepted Answer

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Question 23

Korea has been split along the 38th parallel since an armistice was signed in 1953, creating this area.

Accepted Answer

Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)

Question 24

The Soviet Union successfully detonated what in 1949, shocking the world?

Accepted Answer

Atomic bomb

Question 25

Supreme Court case that created “separate but equal.”

Accepted Answer

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 26

In 1953, this couple was the first American civilians executed for spying, after being convicted in 1951.

Accepted Answer

Julius & Ethel Rosenberg

Question 27

What legislation during WWII allowed former soldiers to buy a home, go to college, or start a business?

Accepted Answer

GI Bill (Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944)

Question 28

Which group, led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., helped fund many of the marches and protests in the 1950s & 1960s?

Accepted Answer

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

Question 29

The U.S. created the ______________ following the Korean Conflict to contain communist activities in Asia.

Accepted Answer

Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)

Question 30

A militant African American group that believed that a revolution was necessary in the US to gain equal rights for all.

Accepted Answer

The Black Panthers

Question 31

The assassination of whom was carried out by members of the Nation of Islam after he defected from the group?

Accepted Answer

Malcolm X

Question 32

Which of these world leaders was NOT a member of the Big Three who met at the Yalta Conference near the end of WWII?

Accepted Answer

Harry S Truman

Question 33

This was the first computer developed by the U.S. Army.

Accepted Answer

ENIAC

Question 34

Jonas Salk developed an injectable vaccine for which deadly disease?

Accepted Answer

Polio

Question 35

This term is used to describe the increase in babies born to U.S. families from 1945 to 1961.

Accepted Answer

Baby Boom

Question 36

Which of the following events did NOT take place in Birmingham, AL?

Accepted Answer

Assassination of Malcolm X

Question 37

Who ended the Freedom Rides by ordering the ICC to tighten regulations on bus terminals?

Accepted Answer

President John F. Kennedy

Question 38

Where did the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. take place?

Accepted Answer

Memphis, TN

Question 39

President Eisenhower created this to shorten the drive across the US from two months to a few days.

Accepted Answer

Interstate Highway System

Question 40

What were civil rights leaders protesting for in Selma, AL?

Accepted Answer

Voting Rights

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