Exam Review Civil Rights and the Cold War
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- 1. During the first part of the Cold War the Soviet leader was Josef _________________
- 5. The failed attempt to invade ______________ became know as the Bay of Pigs Disaster
- 8. The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was an attempt to address racial inequality, but in reality it did __________ to help southerns blacks
- 10. Based on the idea of separate, but equal African Americans experienced all manner of _________________ in their public and private lives
- 12. The _______________ of allowing themselves to be arrested in mass for peaceful demonstrations was a way civil rights protesters could make their points and overburden the local courts and police
- 14. The first major conflict between the democratic West and the communist East came during the _________________ War in Asia
- 15. The landmark "March on ________________" in 1963 is remembered for MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech
- 16. Rosa Parks became a Civil Rights icon for her role in what would become the _________________ Bus Boycott
- 18. The Bay of Pigs _________________ was a disaster for the Kennedy Administration
- 20. The hallmark of Martin Luther King Jr.s civil rights protests were that they were _________________ and very peaceful
- 23. The organization among Western European Nations and the US that promised to defend each other against the Soviet Unions aggressive moves was known as _________________
- 25. The case that became Brown vs. Board of Education started over the non-admittance of a black student into a white school in _____________ Kansas
- 26. The Freedom Riders did not meet much resistance until they reached Alabama where their buses were ______________ and many protesters were beaten and injured
- 27. MLKs famous Letter from a _________________ Jail was published all over the nation to explain the goals and methods of King's movements
- 29. The Supreme Court case of Plessy vs. ________________ established the idea of separate, but equal in schools and public life
- 30. Even though the Greensboro Sit-In movement started out as with only African American participants, it quickly changed as many _____________ college students volunteered to help and get arrested for protesting as well
- 31. The ____________ Crisis occurred the communist leaning Egyptian president turned to the Soviets for money and help
- 32. The group that boarded buses to travel down south into very racist places to protest were known as the _______________ Riders
- 33. The Berlin Airlift happened when communist forces cut of West Berlin from its supplies forcing the US and its Allies to supply West Berlin by air for about a year in 1948-49
- 34. The violence of the racist societies and governments in the south were obvious to the nation when peaceful protesters were __________ by police with dogs and water cannons
- 36. One of the most successful moments for the West during the Cold War was the _____________ Airlift
- 37. The U-2 Incident occurred when the Soviets (Russians) shot down a US ___________ plane and held the pilot (Gary Powers) hostage
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- 1. Even though the Civil Rights Act of 1957 didn't do much, it was very _________________ because it showed that the Civil Rights movement was growing and had to be paid attention to
- 2. The Cold War became a giant worldwide standoff between the USA and the West Europeans against the _____________ Union and the Eastern Bloc nations
- 3. The Egyptians __________________ the Suez Canal which linked the Red Sea to the Mediterranean an important shipping channel for oil and trade
- 4. Despite separate, but equal being the law of the land since Plessy, the Supreme Court voted _____________________ to declare segregation unconstitutional
- 5. The chief of police, Bull ______________, used policemen, dogs and fire-hoses to attack peaceful demonstrators
- 6. The admittance of black students into formerly all white schools cause much _________________ in many southern towns and cities
- 7. Even though the US was caught spying on the Soviets red-handed ________________ refused to apologize or back down to the Soviets
- 9. One major component designed to stop the spread of communism was known as the ___________________ Policy
- 10. Gov. Faubus famously refused to _________________ by using Alabama National Guardsman to keep black students from entering Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas.
- 11. Brown vs. Board of Education was the case in which the Supreme Court declared _________________ unconstitutional
- 13. The Cuban leader Fidel ______________ was a military dictator and an ally of the Soviet Union
- 17. The ________________ Sit-ins were a movement that tried to force all white restaurants in the South to serve black patrons
- 19. Rosa Parks famously refused to move to the back of the bus which was considered the _________________ section of the bus
- 21. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was _______________________ by a young Martin Luther King Jr.
- 22. The violence displayed by southern police and society to the protesters helped convince ________________ that the protesters were right and needed help fighting for their rights
- 24. The US Navy blockaded Cuba to force the Soviets and Khrushchev to remove the nuclear missiles forced the Soviets and Cubans to ______________ down
- 28. The closest that the world ever came to nuclear war was during the Cuban ___________ Crisis
- 35. The Bay of Pigs invasion failed because _______________ withdrew US air support for the CIA trained Cuban exiles who were going to invade the island