| A | B |
|---|
| Red Scare | A period of intense anti-Communism in the USA |
| HUAC | House Committee on Un-American Activities |
| Hollywood 10 | A group of Hollywood writers who refused to give evidence to the HUAC |
| FBI | Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| Accused of spying in 1948 | Alger Hiss |
| McCarran Act | Prevented Communists from having US passports and limited the work they could do |
| Executed in June 1953 for spying | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg |
| Senator for Wisconsin at the centre of the Red Scare | Joseph McCarthy |
| When was the Communist Party banned in the USA | 1954 |
| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People |
| CORE | Congress of Racial Equality |
| Laws which imposed segregation, especially in the South | 'Jim Crow' laws |
| A key court case regarding segregation in 1896 | Plessy v Ferguson |
| Where there was a bus boycott in December 1955 | Montgomery |
| Woman at the centre of the Montgomery Bus Boycott | Rosa Parks |
| Supreme Court case regarding integration in schools | Brown v the Board of Education of Topeka |
| Where there was an incident about school integration | Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas |
| Civil Rights campaigner who believed in non-violent protest | Martin Luther King |
| Martin Luther King won this in 1964 | Nobel Peace Prize |
| A forms of protest much used in the 1960s | Sit-ins and freedom rides |
| Wneh was the Civil Rights Act passed? | 1964 |
| When was President Kennedy assassinated | November 1963 |
| Which Act was passed in August 1965 | Voting Rights Act |
| Leader of a group that favoured violent protest | Malcolm X |
| A group set up in October 1966 | Black Panthers |
| When was Martin Luther King assassinated? | 4 April 1968 |
| WASPs | White Anglo-Saxon Protestants |
| Cause of student protest in the 1960s | Vietnam War |
| A student activist group | SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) |
| Scene of a violent student protest in May 1970 | Kent State University |
| NOW | National Organisation for Women |
| One of the things women campaigned for | Equal Rights |
| A woman who campaigned against Equal rights | Phyllis Schlafly |
| The US President at the centre of the Watergate scandal | Richard Nixon |
| CREEP | The Committee to Re-elect the President |
| Who became President when Nixon resigned? | Gerald Ford |
