Unit 12

Question 1

Organization
founded by Ella
Baker at Shaw
University.

Answer 1

SCLC

Question 2

Birmingham Police
Chief who was the
leader of violence
against student
protesters.

Answer 2

Bull

Connor

Question 3

Supreme Court
case which led to
the desegregation
of schools.

Answer 3

Brown v.
Board of
Education

Question 4

Supreme Court
case which
upheld separate
but equal

Answer 4

Plessy v.

Ferguson

Question 5

A bus boycott in
_________ led to
changes in Jim
Crow policies.

Answer 5

Montgomery

Question 6

Leader of the
Nation of Islam
during the
1960s

Answer 6

Elijah

Muhammad

Question 7

Segregation
enforced by
law

Answer 7

DeJure

Segregation

Question 8

Segregation
that happens
socially/by fact
it exists

Answer 8

DeFacto

Segregation

Question 9

President who sent
troops to Little Rock,
Arkansas to help
with the integration
of the schools.

Answer 9

Eisenhower

Question 10

First African
American to attend
the University of
Mississippi

Answer 10

James

Meredith

Question 11

Who were
the Freedom
Riders

Answer 11

Civil Rights activists who
were rode the interstate
bus system to expose the
non-compliance of
Supreme Court ruling
desegregating buses.

Question 12

President who
desegregated
the military

Answer 12

Truman

Question 13

What does
the SCLC
stand for?

Answer 13

Southern
Christian
Leadership
Conference

Question 14

What does
SNCC
stand for?

Answer 14

Student
Non-Violent
Coordinating
Committee

Question 15

Significance
of Rosa
Parks

Answer 15

Refused to give up
seat on bus. Arrested.
African American
community outraged.

Question 16

The Red Scare
was an increasing
Worry on the part
of the US of…

Answer 16

Communism

Question 17

Won 1960 Pres
Election And took
part in first
Televised debate

Answer 17

JFK

Question 18

Female pilot who
disappeared Over
the Pacific in
1937

Answer 18

Earhart

Question 19

Selective
Service is
another Name
for the

Answer 19

The

draft

Question 20

Flew the
Spirit of St.
Louis

Answer 20

Lindbergh

Question 21

Battle on the
Eastern Front
Which was a
turning point of
WWII In Europe

Answer 21

Battle of

Stalingrad

Question 22

What country is
divided by the
38th parallel

Answer 22

Korea

Question 23

Who came up
with the term
Iron Curtain

Answer 23

Churchill

Question 24

The policy of
remaining apart From
the policies &
interests of Other
nations is known as…

Answer 24

Isolationism

Question 25

Name for icon that
urged women to
join the workforce
during WWII

Answer 25

Rosie the

Riveter

Question 26

Japanese
suicide pilots
during WWII

Answer 26

Kamikaze

Question 27

Who becomes
President after
Nixon resigns?

Answer 27

Ford

Question 28

Describe

hippies

Answer 28

rock music, radical
appearance,
drug use,
communal living,
eastern religions

Question 29

Artist famous for
the visual art
movement known
as pop art.

Answer 29

Andy Warhol

Question 30

Giant concert
held in upstate
NY in 1969.

Answer 30

Woodstock

Question 31

Describe the
late 1960s/early
1970s fashion
trends.

Answer 31

Bell Bottoms,
jump
suits, mini skirts,
plat form shoes.

Question 32

What
precedent did
Roe v. Wade
establish?

Answer 32

made
abortion
legal

Question 33

What does
NOW
stand for?

Answer 33

National
Organization
for Women

Question 34

Created the
United Farm
Workers.

Answer 34

Cesar

Chavez

Question 35

Describe
New
Federalism

Answer 35

Give money
and power back to local
governments and take it
away
from the federal
bureaucracy.

Question 36

Define

Stagflation:

Answer 36

Rising inflation and
unemployment
brought an end to the
economic
boom in America that was
enjoyed since 1948.

Question 37

What nation
imposed an oil
embargo on the
US in 1973?

Answer 37

Saudi

Arabia

Question 38

Who was
President Nixon’s
Secretary of
State?

Answer 38

Kissinger

Question 39

Describe the
Watergate
scandal

Answer 39

Group of Nixon’s men break
into
Watergate hotel to steal
campaign
secrets from Democratic
National
Committee. Exposed by
Washington Post Reporters.