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Tennessee US 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 U.S. Cold War policy of 'containment' aimed to:

  2. The Marshall Plan served containment by:

  3. What was the 'iron curtain'?

  4. NATO, formed in 1949, was:

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

  6. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 is best described as:

  7. The Korean and Vietnam Wars are examples of 'proxy wars,' meaning:

  8. 'McCarthyism' refers to:

  9. The GI Bill after World War II helped returning veterans by:

  10. The sharp rise in births from 1946 into the 1960s is known as the:

  11. In the postwar decades, population and industry shifted toward the Sunbelt, meaning the:

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

  13. The strategy of nonviolent protest used in the civil rights movement involved:

  14. The Nashville sit-ins of 1960 are an important Tennessee example of:

  15. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968 in which Tennessee city, where he had come to support striking sanitation workers?

  16. The two landmark civil rights laws of the mid-1960s were the:

  17. Medicare and Medicaid, created in 1965 as part of the Great Society, provide:

  18. Besides civil rights, which movement emerged in the 1960s?