2nd Semester Study Guide

What was the organization led by MLK that used black churches to organize protests, marches, and boycotts?

• CIA

• SCLC

• NAACP

• EPA

What was the organization founded in 1909 to fight for equal rights in the court system? Future supreme court justice Thurgood Marshall was once their chief legal counsel.

• CIA

• SCLC

• EPA

• NAACP

1. This incident resulted in increased US military action in Vietnam

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Gulf of Tonkin

• Bay of Pigs

• D-Day

1. What was the failed attempt at an invasion of Cuba?

• D-Day

• Bay of Pigs

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Gulf of Tonkin

1. US commitment to provide support to countries under the threat of communism was known as the Truman Doctrine, _____________.

• domino theory

• Cold War

• containment policy

• Cold War

1. Period of geopolitical tension between the US and Soviet Union

• World War I

• World War II

• Vietnam War

• Cold War

1. landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin.

• Interstate Highway Act

• National Security Act

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

What legislation created the largest American public works project at the time?

• Civil Rights Act

• Voting Rights Act

• National Security Act

• Interstate Highway Act

1. Kennedy’s policy that included the expansion of the space program

• New Deal

• Great Society

• New Frontier

• Fair Deal

1. This was an attempt to increase voter registration in the South

• Freedom Rides

• Freedom Summer

• Little Rock 9

• Montgomery Bus Boycott