Cold War/Civil Rights Jeopardy Review Game Answer Key

Cold War/Civil Rights Answer Key

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Cold War and Civil Rights Terms
#1	The border between the communist countries and those that were not in Europe is often referred to as ___	What is the Iron Curtain?
#2	The division between East and West Berlin.	What was the Berlin Wall?
#3	The organization of countries that did not want Communism to spread	What was NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
#4	This happened when the Supreme Court ruled segregation on buses and trains to be unconstitutional.	What was the Freedom Rides?
#5	The line of latitude that divided North and South Korea.	What is the 38th parallel?

Conflicts and plans of the Cold War
#1	Truman's plan to prevent the spread of Communism after WWII.	What was Containment?
#2	The monetary aid package to help European countries after WWII.	What was the Marshall Plan/
#3	This marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War.	What was the fall of the Berlin Wall?
#4	The result that occurred when the U.S. pulled out of Vietnam.	What is North Vietnam took over South?
#5	This happened when Communist North Korea invaded South Korea.	What was the Korean War?

Civil Rights
#1	Three things the Civil Rights Act of 1965 outlawed.	What was discrimination on race, religion and national origin?
#2	The Supreme Court decision that reversed Plessy vs. Ferguson, separate, but equal.	What is Brown vs. Board?
#3	The nickname for the students that first integrated Little Rock H.S.	What is the Little Rock Nine?
#4	Lyndon B. Johnson passed this act to ensure all could vote without penalties.	What is the Voting Rights Act?
#5	The lawyer that won the Brown vs. Board of Topeka, Kansas case.	Who was Thurgood Marshall?

Cold War leaders
#1	The Soviet Union leader that placed missiles in Cuba.	Who was Nikita Khrushchev?
#2	The president that promised to end the Vietnam War.	Who was Richard Nixon?
#3	The senator that blamed many people for being Communist spies.	Who was Joseph McCarthy?
#4	The president that diffused the Cuban Missile Crisis.	Who is John F. Kennedy?
#5	The men that helped end the Cold War.	Who were Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev?

Civil Rights Events
#1	Students sat at a Woolworth's counter here to peacefully protest their "whites only" policy.	Where is Greensboro, NC?
#2	The reason the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama took place.	What was supporting civil rights in voting procedures?
#3	Rosa Parks stayed seated on a bus here.	What was Montgomery, Alabama?
#4	In 1963, Martin Luther King gave this speech in Washington, D.C.	What was "I Have a Dream?"
#5	Lyndon B. Johnson passed this act that eliminated segregation.	What was the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

Final Question
The date Rosa Parks "took her stand" by staying seated.	What is December 1, 1955?