Postwar America

What two nations were in competition with each other during the Cold War?

• Spain and Portugal
• England and France
• Germany and Italy
• United States and Soviet Union

What legislation helped American soldiers get an education and buy homes in the suburbs during the Cold War?

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Federal Housing Authority Act

• Social Security Act

• GI BIll

What was the name of the rapid increase of population following the end of WWII called?

• Baby Boom

• Columbian Exchange

• Great Migration

• Demographic Shift

Leader of communism in China

• Mao Zedong
• Hirohito Showa
• Xi Jinping
• Pu Yi

What was the alliance between the United States and nations of Western Europe that opposed the Soviet Union during the Cold War?

• Warsaw Pact
• NATO
• The Allies
• The Central Powers

What was the result of the Brown versus Board of Education court case in 1954?

• Segregation of public schools became illegal
• African Americans began to play professional sports
• Martin Luther King led the March on Washington
• Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus

To separate one group from another is ___________________.

• integration
• segregation
• Civil Rights Movement
  Jim Crow

Who was arrested for refusing to give up their seat on a bus?

• Charlayne Hunter
• Harriet Tubman
• Rosa Parks
• Rebecca L. Felton

_____________ rode in interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the ruling of unsegregated public places.

• Freedom Rides

• National Organization for Women

• United Farm Workers

• Counterculture

What president assured the nation that "we shall overcome" when he signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He also took steps to end discrimination earlier when he signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• John F. Kennedy

• Harry Truman