1950s-1970s

President Truman decided to drop the bombs because:

• There was no other way to end the war.
• Japan would not feel threatened by a demonstration of the bombs' power.
• President Truman did not make the decision.
• Someone had to end the war.

this man integrated Major League Baseball in 1947

• Jackie Robinson

• Executive Order 9981

• To Secure These Rights

• NAACP

1957; Arkansas governor Orval Faubus tried to keep Central High School from being integrated; President Eisenhower called out the troops to make sure the Little Rock Nine were kept safe and allowed to go to Central High

• Brown v. Topeka, Kansas Board of Education

• Little Rock Crisis

• Montgomery Improvement Association

• Greensboro sit-ins

black students from North Carolina A&T University sat down in the "white section" of a Woolworth's lunch counter; the demonstrations soon spread

• Brown v. Topeka, Kansas Board of Education

• Little Rock Crisis

• Montgomery Improvement Association

• Greensboro sit-ins

ordered the desegregation of American public schools

• Brown v. Topeka, Kansas Board of Education

• Little Rock Crisis

• Montgomery Improvement Association

• Greensboro sit-ins

overturned the "separate but equal" doctrine of Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Topeka, Kansas Board of Education

• Little Rock Crisis

• Montgomery Improvement Association

• Greensboro sit-ins

the post-WWII era of intense fear of communism and of communist spies infiltrating the US government

• Second Red Scare

• McCarthyism

• blacklist

• HUAC

• the Rosenbergs

another name for the communist "witch hunt" that was led by a certain Senator during the late 1940s/early 1950s; this ended after this certain Senator tried, and failed, to accuse members of the Army of being communist

• Second Red Scare

• McCarthyism

• blacklist

• HUAC

• the Rosenbergs

Post WWII, which group initiated a series of court cases to overturn "separate but equal"?

• NAACP 
• SNCC
• NOW
• AIM

The Peace Corps was started by which President to further the ideals in his Inaugural Address?

• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Harry S. Truman
• John F. Kennedy 
• Lyndon B. Johnson