Focus Terms Quiz 8

1. United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama and so triggered the national civil rights movement (born in 1913).

• Rosa Parks

• Harriet Tubman

• Madam Curie

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

1.  A prolonged war (1954-1975) between the communist armies of North Vietnam (who were supported by the Chinese) and the non-communist armies of South Vietnam (who were supported by the United States).

• Korean War

• Vietnam War

• Iran-Contra Affair

• Gulf War

A dispute over control of the waterway between Iraq and Iran broke out into open fighting in 1980 and continued until 1988, when they accepted a UN cease-fire resolution.

• Vietnam War

• Iran-Contra Affair

• Gulf War

• Korean War

1. The people involved were William Casey, head of CIA; Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North of the National Security Council; Admiral John Poindexter, National Security Advisor; and Robert McFarlane, former National Security Advisor. They sold arms to Iranians to encourage their aid in releasing American hostages in Lebanon. The Contras did get around Congressional restrictions on funding the revolution there. Hearings were held in May 1987, during Reagan’s presidency. 

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Iran-Contra Affair

• Watergate

• League of Nations

1. was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. 

• Sinking of the Lusitania

• League of Nations

• Watergate

• Cuban Missile Crisis

began as a civil war between North and South Korea (which had been established by the USSR and US respectively), but the conflict soon became international when, under U.S. leadership, the United Nations joined to support South Korea, and China entered to aid North Korea.

• Gulf War

• Korean War

• Vietnam War

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

The events and scandal surrounding a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in 1972 and the subsequent cover-up of White House involvement leading to the eventual resignation of President Nixon under the threat of impeachment.

• Iran-Contra Affair

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Watergate

In 1955, after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus, Dr. Martin Luther King led a boycott of city buses. After 11 months the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public transportation was illegal.

• Rosa Parks

• Sinking of the Lusitania

• League of Nations

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

Cruise ship that was sunk by German submarines and helped bring the US closer to involvement in WW1.

• Titanic

• Sinking of the Lusitania

• Poseidon

• Mayflower

1. An international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations.

• League of Nations

• Watergate

• Iran-Contra Affair

• Montgomery Bus Boycott