Chapter 11 Test Review

1. Chapter 11Test Review

2. What event cause Truman to send American troops to Korea in 1950?

3. The invasion of South Korea by North Korea

4. What did Churchill mean by the “iron curtain”?

5. The separation of the Communist countries in Eastern Europe from the democratic nations in the West

6. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rosa Parks were part of what movement in the 1950s and 1960s?

7. the civil rights movement

8. In 1950, the United States became involved in the Korean War. Why did the United States become involved in this war?

9. to stop the spread of communism to South Korea

10. The two military alliances that opposed each other in Europe during the Cold War were the Warsaw Pact and the ____________.

11. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

12. Who was a US senator during the 1950s that held hearings to look into possible communist threats and accused several people of being communists?

13. Joseph McCarthy

14. In response to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin in 1948, the United States and Great Britain ___________.

15. Organized an airlift to supply the city

16. The United States space program has benefited other things besides space travel. Some products that benefited from the space program were…

17. Computers and heat-resistant materials

18. What event in the 1960s brought the world close to nuclear war?

19. The Cuban missile Crisis

20. What Supreme Court case in 1954 led to the desegregation of schools?

21. Brown v. board of education

22. Martin Luther King, Jr., encouraged his followers to Use _________________.

23. Nonviolent protest

24. President Johnson called his social programs the ___________________.

25. Great Society

26. What agency was created after the Soviets launched the satellite Sputnik?

27. National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA)

28. The Cold War between the United States and the former Soviet Union was a rivalry between what two forms of government?

29. Communism and democracy

30. What finally gave all citizens equal access to restaurants, hotels, libraries, and theaters?

31. The Civil Rights Act of 1964

32. In a speech in 1946, This man declared that an “iron curtain” had descended across Europe.

33. Winston Churchill

34. Which was a major aim of the U.S. Supreme Court decisions concerning segregation?

35. to end segregation laws that caused inequality

36. After World War II, a new type of conflict developed between the Soviet Union and the United States that involved competition between the two countries in everything they did. What was this conflict known as?

37. The cold war

38. 1962, the United States was involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis. What was the importance of this event?

39. The United States wanted the former Soviet Union to remove missiles from Cuba.

40. How did the Brown vs. Board of Education decision affect the Civil Rights movement?

41. It led to the integration of public schools.

42. The United States space exploration that began in the 1960s caused this Industry to grow rapidly.

43. computer

44. What role did the Civil Rights movement play in the lives of African Americans during the 1950s?

45. It encouraged African Americans to work toward equal rights.

46. Which person’s arrest led African Americans to organize the Montgomery bus boycott?

47. Rosa parks