Significant people: Cold War & Civil Rights

Question 1

U.S. President who issued policy aimed at stopping the spread of Communism in the world

Accepted Answer

Truman

Question 2

Leader in the Women’s Liberation Movement of the 1960s; wrote The Feminine Mystique

Accepted Answer

Betty Frieden

Question 3

He worked to identify known communists and accused others based onassociation

Accepted Answer

McCarthy

Question 4

first African-American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court

Accepted Answer

Thurgood Marshall

Question 5

Hispanic labor leader and farm worker who worked for reforms and rights of the migrant workers

Accepted Answer

Cesar Chavez

Question 6

President that desegregated the armed forces

Accepted Answer

Truman

Question 7

her civil disobedience led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Accepted Answer

Rosa Parks

Question 8

"I have a dream"

Accepted Answer

Martin Luther King Jr

Question 9

President that came the closest to nuclear war.

Accepted Answer

Kennedy

Question 10

President during the Korean conflict & policy led to start of huge build up of nuclear weapons

Accepted Answer

Eisenhower

Question 11

His Plan supported economic aid to Europe and generated increased trade btw US&European nations

Accepted Answer

Marshall

Questions 11