unit 8 Flashcards
____ gave the “I Have a Dream’ speech at the Lincoln Memorial.
Dr. Martin Luther King
The downing of a U.S. increases tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States.
U-2 spy plane
The Chinese Revolution resulted in China coming under____ rule
communist
Escaped convict___ admitted to shooting and killing Martin Luther King, Jr.
James Earl Ray
The ____ Effect theory illustrates President Eisenhower’s view that the communist take over and the government might cause others to FALL.
Domino
In 1963, as many as 200,000 protestors gathered in___to demand new civil rights legislation.
Washington
The____Commission concluded that President Kennedy’s assassin acted alone.
Warren
Appointed in 1967, Thurgood___was the first African American justice to serve on the Supreme Court.
Marshall
Under Chief Justice Earl___the Supreme Court experienced a new era of power and prominence.
warren
___provided leadership for Blacks seeking separation, not integration.
Malcom x
The successful launch of___into space by Russia shocked and disappointed Americans.
Sputnik1
___sought to improve the life of all Americans with his Great Society proposals.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Legislation removed ambiguities in the law concerning rights and empowered the Attorney General and the courts to enforce the measures.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Protestors overcame obstacles to deliver a letter to Governor George Wallace leading to a personal meeting with President Johnson to discuss civil rights.
Selma-to-Montgomery
In 1953, the United States signed a treaty pledging to defend___
South Korea
__is the risky game in which governments push to the edge of nuclear war without actually starting one.
Brinkmanship
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 abolished___and poll taxes.
literacy tests
___drove the economic expansion of the 1950s.
Consumerism
Passage of the___led to the creation of the interstate highway system.
Federal Aid Highway Act
The passing of laws to end the separation of people due to class or race is____
desegregation
After the death of Joseph Stalin, Nikita became the premier of Russia.
Khrushchev
In the ___ruling, the Supreme Court determined that the Fourteenth Amendment applied to classes of people, not just races.
Pete Hernandez v. Texas
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 were signed into law during the ___administration.
Lyndon B. Johnson
American astronaut Neil__was the first man to walk on the moon.
Armstrong
The___caused the Soviet Union to relent from placing nuclear weapons close to the United States.
Cuban Missile Crisis
The___was when the United States and the Soviet Union competed to prove their political, military, and economic superiority.
space race
The Warren Court’s willingness to break with earlier rulings led to___changes in the United States.
major
The___invasion by Cuban exiles failed to overthrow Cuba’s communist government.
Bay of Pigs
The Supreme Court ruled that police should follow procedures in order to protect rights when making an arrest.
Miranda V. Arizona
This Court decision stated that the requiring of prayers by government officials for students was unconstitutional.
Engel v. Vitale
___refused to give up a bus seat to a White man, which became a rallying point for the civil rights movement.
Rosa Parks
The passing of the ___allowed President Johnson to use military force in Vietnam.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Russian cosmonaut Yuri___ was the first man to orbit the earth.
Gagarin
____or MAD, is the theory that neither side would start a nuclear war because neither would survive.
Mutually assured destruction
White Southerners expressed their desire to continue___by issuing the Southern Manifesto.
Segregation
The___program successfully landed Americans on the moon.
Apollo
Revolutionary Fidel____ turned Cuba into a communist state.
Castro
___proposed New Frontier plans including proposals for health insurance for the elderly and federal aid to education.
John F. Kennedy
The construction of the____prevented East Germans from escaping to West Germany.
Berlin Wall
