Exam Review Civil Rights and the Cold War

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  1. 1. During the first part of the Cold War the Soviet leader was Josef _________________
  2. 5. The failed attempt to invade ______________ became know as the Bay of Pigs Disaster
  3. 8. The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was an attempt to address racial inequality, but in reality it did __________ to help southerns blacks
  4. 10. Based on the idea of separate, but equal African Americans experienced all manner of _________________ in their public and private lives
  5. 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
  6. 14. The first major conflict between the democratic West and the communist East came during the _________________ War in Asia
  7. 15. The landmark "March on ________________" in 1963 is remembered for MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech
  8. 16. Rosa Parks became a Civil Rights icon for her role in what would become the _________________ Bus Boycott
  9. 18. The Bay of Pigs _________________ was a disaster for the Kennedy Administration
  10. 20. The hallmark of Martin Luther King Jr.s civil rights protests were that they were _________________ and very peaceful
  11. 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 _________________
  12. 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
  13. 26. The Freedom Riders did not meet much resistance until they reached Alabama where their buses were ______________ and many protesters were beaten and injured
  14. 27. MLKs famous Letter from a _________________ Jail was published all over the nation to explain the goals and methods of King's movements
  15. 29. The Supreme Court case of Plessy vs. ________________ established the idea of separate, but equal in schools and public life
  16. 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
  17. 31. The ____________ Crisis occurred the communist leaning Egyptian president turned to the Soviets for money and help
  18. 32. The group that boarded buses to travel down south into very racist places to protest were known as the _______________ Riders
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. 36. One of the most successful moments for the West during the Cold War was the _____________ Airlift
  22. 37. The U-2 Incident occurred when the Soviets (Russians) shot down a US ___________ plane and held the pilot (Gary Powers) hostage
Down
  1. 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. 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. 3. The Egyptians __________________ the Suez Canal which linked the Red Sea to the Mediterranean an important shipping channel for oil and trade
  4. 4. Despite separate, but equal being the law of the land since Plessy, the Supreme Court voted _____________________ to declare segregation unconstitutional
  5. 5. The chief of police, Bull ______________, used policemen, dogs and fire-hoses to attack peaceful demonstrators
  6. 6. The admittance of black students into formerly all white schools cause much _________________ in many southern towns and cities
  7. 7. Even though the US was caught spying on the Soviets red-handed ________________ refused to apologize or back down to the Soviets
  8. 9. One major component designed to stop the spread of communism was known as the ___________________ Policy
  9. 10. Gov. Faubus famously refused to _________________ by using Alabama National Guardsman to keep black students from entering Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas.
  10. 11. Brown vs. Board of Education was the case in which the Supreme Court declared _________________ unconstitutional
  11. 13. The Cuban leader Fidel ______________ was a military dictator and an ally of the Soviet Union
  12. 17. The ________________ Sit-ins were a movement that tried to force all white restaurants in the South to serve black patrons
  13. 19. Rosa Parks famously refused to move to the back of the bus which was considered the _________________ section of the bus
  14. 21. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was _______________________ by a young Martin Luther King Jr.
  15. 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
  16. 24. The US Navy blockaded Cuba to force the Soviets and Khrushchev to remove the nuclear missiles forced the Soviets and Cubans to ______________ down
  17. 28. The closest that the world ever came to nuclear war was during the Cuban ___________ Crisis
  18. 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