Cold War & Civil Rights

The ending of authorized segregation, or separation by race.

• Armistice
• Levittown
• Segregation
• Desegregation

1954 - The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated.

• Brown v. Board of Education
• Segregation
• Desegregation
• Iron Curtain

Emerged as a leader of the civil rights movement during the Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Iron Curtain
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Domino Theory
• Berlin Airlift

residential areas surrounding a city

• Cold War
• suburbs
• Baby Boom
• Communism

fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life

• Armistice
• Cold War
• Levittown
• Red Scare

A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for 46 years.

• Cold War
• Berlin Wall
• Red Scare
• Communism

Action student would take during Nuclear attack drills

• Domino Theory
• Red Scare
• Cold War
• Duck and Cover

American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world

• Capitalism
• Cold War
• Communism
• Containment

A theory that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control.

• Domino Theory
• Cold War
• Armistice
• Levittown

a plan for aiding poorer European nations recover after World War II in order to prevent the spread of communism.

• Marshall Plan
• Bay of Pigs
• Cold War
• Capitalism