BJU The Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement

The Soviet Union launched the first manmade satellite into orbit. What was its name?

Exiled Cuban fighters invaded Cuba at the

The Truman Doctrine promised to

Freedom riders were students from the north who went to Mississippi to help in voter registration.

The United States considered Cuba a threat because

Who gave the famous “I have a dream speech”

During the Cuban missile crisis, Russia agreed to remove missiles from Cuba if the US would

Protesters were routinely beaten and killed during the civil rights movement

a military alliance of the Soviet Union and Eastern European states

The United States fought Soviet troops in Korea and Vietnam.

U.S. policy to rebuild war-torn Europe

Who led a revolution in Cuba and took over the government.

Winston Churchill described the division between Eastern and Western Europe as

Which Supreme Court decision ruled that "separate but equal" schools were unconstitutional ?

Which individual refused to give up a seat in a bus to a white man?

Which American Civil Rights leader preached a sermon called "I Have A Dream"

The Berlin Wall was erected in order to

a plan to keep communism within its existing geographical boundaries and prevent aggression

The twentieth-century conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union is known as

Which of the following was not used to restrict the voting rights of African-Americans?

The Soviet blockade of West Berlin was intended to

The United States and the Soviet Union were involved in an arms race to build more and stronger nuclear weapons

The U.S. government believed that if they lost South Vietnam to communism,

The transition to desegregation in the south was smoothly and well received by white southerners.

What was the name of the theory that countries would fall to communism one after another.

U.S. promise to support countries fighting communism

The United States and the Soviet Union became rivals after World War II because

What was the nickname given to laws used to restrict the freedoms of African Americans?

The Marshall Plan was based on the idea that

What were Russia and the U S involved in when they used substitutes to fight each other.

The United States sent troops to Vietnam to

An alliance formed by the Soviet Union to challenge NATO

The Allied effort to break the blockade of Berlin was called

A defensive organization formed by the US