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| What was the Marshall Plan? | The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II. |
| What was the name of the American General in charge of of the UN forces in the Korean War? | Douglas MacArthur |
| What was the Red Scare in the 1950's? | The fear of Communism. |
| what was the Hollywood 10? | Hollywood 10 were motion-picture producers, directors, and screenwriters who appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee in October 1947, refused to answer questions on their possible communist affiliations were mostly blacklisted. |
| Who was the director of the FBI during the Red Scare? | Edgar Hoover |
| Why did Senator McCarthy lose popularity? | because of his bullying tactics when questioning people on their communist past. |
| What was segregation in America? | White and black people were kept separate, but unfairly. |
| What dose SCLC stand for? | The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is a Black civil rights organization. SCLC, which is closely associated with its first president, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement. |
| What was the ruling for the Brown v Board of Education of Topeka (1954)? | Public school became de-segragated. |
| What act of resistance did Rosa Parks make to segregation in 1955? | She refused to move out of her seat on the bus for a white man. |
| Who was murdered during the "Freedom Summer?" | On June 21, 1964, three young civil rights workers—a 21-year-old black Mississippian, James Chaney, and two white New Yorkers, Andrew Goodman, 20, and Michael Schwerner, 24—were murdered near Philadelphia, in Nashoba County, Mississippi. |
| When was Martin Luther King assassinated? | 4th April 1968 |
| How did Malcolm X's approach to civil right differ to MLK? | He thought that violence was the only way to get civil right whereas MLK had a peaceful approach. |
| What were the Zoot Suit Riots for? | The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of riots in 1944 during World War II that broke out in Los Angeles, California, between Anglo American sailors and Marines stationed in the city, and Latino youths, who were recognizable by the zoot suits they favored. |
| Who founded the United Farm Workers committee in 1962? | Cesar Chavez |
| What dose AIM stand for? | American Indian Movemt |
| What act made it illegal to pay women less than men for the same job? | 1963 Equal Pay Act. |
| What was the name the famous book by Betty Friedan? | "The Feminine Mystique" criticised the isolation of women in the household. |
| What was the ruling about abortion in the case Roe v Wade 1973? | Congress passed the Hyde Amendment in 1976 due to pressure groups. |
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