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WorksheetsCold War & Civil Rights
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The ending of authorized segregation, or separation by race.
a)
Armistice
b)
Levittown
c)
Segregation
d)
Desegregation
2.
1954 - The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated.
a)
Brown v. Board of Education
b)
Segregation
c)
Desegregation
d)
Iron Curtain
3.
Emerged as a leader of the civil rights movement during the Montgomery Bus Boycott
a)
Iron Curtain
b)
Martin Luther King Jr.
c)
Domino Theory
d)
Berlin Airlift
4.
residential areas surrounding a city
a)
Cold War
b)
suburbs
c)
Baby Boom
d)
Communism
5.
fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life
a)
Armistice
b)
Cold War
c)
Levittown
d)
Red Scare
6.
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.
a)
Cold War
b)
Berlin Wall
c)
Red Scare
d)
Communism
7.
Action student would take during Nuclear attack drills
a)
Domino Theory
b)
Red Scare
c)
Cold War
d)
Duck and Cover
8.
American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world
a)
Capitalism
b)
Cold War
c)
Communism
d)
Containment
9.
A theory that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control.
a)
Domino Theory
b)
Cold War
c)
Armistice
d)
Levittown
10.
a plan for aiding poorer European nations recover after World War II in order to prevent the spread of communism.
a)
Marshall Plan
b)
Bay of Pigs
c)
Cold War
d)
Capitalism
11.
A region where no military forces or weapons are permitted.
a)
Civil Disobedience
b)
Armistice
c)
Desegregation
d)
demilitarized zone
12.
an agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time; a truce.
a)
Communism
b)
Armistice
c)
Levittown
d)
Red Scare
13.
a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned .
a)
suburbs
b)
Capitalism
c)
Cold War
d)
Communism
14.
An economic system based on private ownership of capital
a)
Baby Boom
b)
Armistice
c)
Communism
d)
Capitalism
15.
The 1962 confrontation between US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba.
a)
Capitalism
b)
Bay of Pigs
c)
Cuban Missile Crisis
d)
Armistice
16.
1956 law that authorized the spending of $32 billion to build 41,000 miles of highway
a)
Marshall Plan
b)
Interstate Highway Act
c)
Berlin Airlift
d)
Desegregation
17.
An unsuccessful invasion of Cuba in 1961, which was sponsored by the United States. Its purpose was to overthrow Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
a)
Bay of Pigs
b)
Baby Boom
c)
Berlin Wall
d)
Capitalism
18.
Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the construction of the Berlin Wall
a)
Domino Theory
b)
Capitalism
c)
Red Scare
d)
Nikita Krushchev
19.
Barrier set up in 1961 to separate East and West Berlin
a)
Armistice
b)
Cold War
c)
Berlin Wall
d)
Berlin Airlift
20.
Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West.
a)
Red Scare
b)
Iron Curtain
c)
Truman Doctrine
d)
Berlin Airlift
21.
Joint effort by the US and Britian to fly food and supplies into W Berlin after the Soviet blocked off all ground routes into the city
a)
Berlin Airlift
b)
Iron Curtain
c)
Berlin Wall
d)
Capitalism
22.
Leader of the Cuban Revolution and communist dictator of Cuba.
a)
Armistice
b)
Castro, Fidel
c)
Bay of Pigs
d)
Capitalism
23.
A nonviolent, public refusal to obey allegedly unjust laws.
a)
Truman Doctrine
b)
Civil Disobedience
c)
demilitarized zone
d)
Armistice
24.
a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal
a)
Bay of Pigs
b)
Segregation
c)
Plessy v. Ferguson
d)
Desegregation
25.
the larger than expected generation in United States born shortly after World War II
a)
suburbs
b)
Bay of Pigs
c)
Baby Boom
d)
Levittown
26.
protest in 1955-1956 by African Americans against racial segregation in bus system
a)
Interstate Highway Act
b)
Containment
c)
Baby Boom
d)
Montgomery Bus Boycott
27.
This speech by Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington focused on civil rights.
a)
Baby Boom
b)
I Have a Dream
c)
Capitalism
d)
Red Scare
28.
1947 - Stated that the U.S. would support any nation threatened by Communism.
a)
Iron Curtain
b)
Truman Doctrine
c)
Armistice
d)
Red Scare
29.
In 1947, William Levitt used mass production techniques to build inexpensive homes in surburban New York to help relieve the postwar housing shortage.
a)
Armistice
b)
Red Scare
c)
Levittown
d)
Baby Boom
30.
Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences
a)
Armistice
b)
Segregation
c)
Levittown
d)
Desegregation
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