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STAAR US History Module 5 Cold War and Civil Rights overview quiz quiz

15questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. The Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and NATO were all tools of which US Cold War policy?

  2. Why was the Cold War called 'cold'?

  3. The Marshall Plan supported containment by

  4. The United States fought in the Korean War and Vietnam War mainly to

  5. The Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) was significant because it

  6. McCarthyism is best defined as

  7. How did McCarthyism and the Red Scare threaten civil liberties?

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

  9. The Montgomery Bus Boycott used which method to bring change?

  10. Which leader is most associated with nonviolent protest in the civil rights movement?

  11. The Civil Rights Act of 1964

  12. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was significant because it

  13. The Twenty-fourth Amendment (1964) protected voting rights by

  14. Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers used boycotts and nonviolent protest to

  15. The women's, Latino, and American Indian movements of the 1960s and 1970s