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Ohio American History EOC Module 5 the Cold War and civil rights overview quiz quiz

18questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. The US Cold War policy of stopping the spread of communism without direct war with the Soviet Union was called:

  2. Winston Churchill used the phrase 'iron curtain' to describe:

  3. The Marshall Plan helped contain communism by:

  4. NATO, formed in 1949, was:

  5. The Korean War (1950 to 1953) ended:

  6. The 'domino theory' held that:

  7. The Vietnam War deeply divided Americans largely because of:

  8. The 1970 Kent State shootings in Ohio became a national symbol because:

  9. McCarthyism in the early 1950s is best described as:

  10. During the second Red Scare, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC):

  11. The GI Bill after World War II most directly helped returning veterans by:

  12. Which best explains the rapid suburbanization of the 1950s?

  13. The postwar prosperity was uneven because:

  14. In Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the Supreme Court ruled that:

  15. Which nonviolent method did the civil rights movement use to desegregate buses in Alabama?

  16. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 respectively:

  17. Medicare and Medicaid, created in 1965, were part of President Lyndon Johnson's:

  18. The Great Society sparked a lasting debate mainly over: