Cold War/Civil Rights

What time period was dedicated to stopping COMMUNISM?

• WWII

• Cold War

• The 1990's

• Great Depression

Why was the Cuban Missile Crisis an actual "crisis"?

• The communist Cuba didn't agree with us any more

• Cuba lost a nuclear missile and now one knew where it was

• Cuba had the capabilities to strike most of America with a nuclear missile

• Cuba got rid of all of their missiles that we needed to protect us.

Label the correct countries that supported North & South Korea during the Korean War

• North Korea-Germany

• South Korea-Great Britain

• South Korea-United States

• North Korea-USSR

Which 2 superpowers were involved in the Cold War?

• Britain and the Soviet Union

• France and Germany

• Japan and the Soviet Union

• The U.S. and the Soviet Union

Why did the U.S. enter the Korean War?

• It did not want another country to fall to communists

• It did not want another country to be split

• It wanted to attack North Korea

• It wanted to sell more weapons to its allies

What best describes the Soviet satellite Sputnik?

• The first satellite launched into space

• The first satellite to reach the moon

• The first satellite to carry a person into space

• The first satellite to carry a laboratory rat into space

President Truman adopted a new foreign policy during the Cold War know as the Truman Doctrine. What was the main goal of the Truman Doctrine?

• To expand trade with Europe
• To limit the build up of nuclear weapons
• To stop the spread of communism
• to send financial aid to Europe

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McCarthyism is described as...

• A time period of accusing someone of communism without legitimate evidence

• A time period of uneasiness surrounding nuclear development

• A time period where Americans desired to end segregation in the Deep South

• A time period of threats between the US & USSR

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 led to ending of which laws in the South...

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow Laws

• Affirmative Action

• Habeas Corpus

Laws that set up segregated facilities for whites and blacks in the South

• Jim Crow Laws

• NAACP

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Black Panthers