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Unit 15: 1960s

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Which event damaged the Kennedy administration's attempt to contain communism during the Cold War?Bay of Pigs
Which event nearly resulted in the Kennedy administration's use of force against the Soviet Union during the Cold War?Cuban Missile Crisis
What symbolized Soviet communist control in Berlin during the Cold War?Berlin Wall
What action was led by Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. to protest segregated busing?Montgomery bus boycott
What ended segregation in public schools?Brown v. Board of Education
Which group's action resulted in the Eisenhower administration's use of troops to integrate the public schools?the Little Rock Nine
What method the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (S.N.C.C.) use to protest segregation in restaurants and lunch-counters?sit-ins
What was the goal of the "Freedom Riders"?end segregation in interstate
The "March on Washington" was an event to support which cause?civil rights for African-Americans
What was the civil rights campaign to increase black voter registration in Mississippi called?Freedom Summer (1964)
Which legislation banned segregation in public accomodations and discrimination in the workplace?Civil Rights Act of 1964
Which legislation resulted in more federal protection for African-American suffrage?Voting Rights Act of 1965
Which African-American leader is an example of radicalism in the civil rights movement?Malcolm X
Which civil rights group promoted militant actions against racism and police brutality?Black Panthers
Which reform movement was Betty Friedan associated with?Women's liberation/Feminism
Which organization played a leading role in the women's liberation movement?National Organization for Women (NOW)
Which Supreme Court decision supported the constitutional right to have an abortion?Roe v. Wade
The women's liberation movement campaigned to ratify which failed constitutional amendment?Equal Rights Amendment
Which federal law requires schools to provide equal access for women to educational and athletic opportunities?Title IX
Stokely Carmichael of SNCC is associated with promoting which radical civil rights movement?Black Power


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Grimsley High School
NC

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