1950

Question 1

What was the case in 1955?

Answer 1

Brown versus board

Question 2

How far was the summer school from Linda Brown’s house

Answer 2

Seven blocks

Question 3

Why could Linda Brown not attend the school?

Answer 3

Cause it was a white school and she was black

Question 4

How many plaintiffs were managed in the bronze lawsuit?

Answer 4

200

Question 5

What was the title of the Supreme Court decision on May 17, 1954?

Answer 5

Brown versus board education

Question 6

What did the Supreme Court rule in the Brown versus board case

Answer 6

Segregated public schools were unconstitutional

Question 7

Who brought the Brown versus board case before the Supreme Court?

Answer 7

Thurgood Marshall

Question 8

What job was this person appointed to in 1967

Answer 8

Supreme Court

Question 9

One 1896 Supreme Court decision did the 1954 case overturn

Answer 9

Plus versus Ferguson

Question 10

What did the 1896+ versus Ferguson decision rule unconstitutional

Answer 10

Separate but equal

Question 11

What were three disadvantages of black schools as a result?

Answer 11

Less government money, less qualified teachers, and less graduation opportunities

Question 12

Chief Justice Earl Warren said separate, but equal faculties are

Answer 12

In inherently unequal

Question 13

Who appointed Earl Warren to the Supreme Court in 1937

Answer 13

President, Dwight Eisenhower

Question 14

What job did Earl Warren have before joining the Supreme Court?

Answer 14

Republican governor for California served three terms

Question 15

Why was Thurgood Marshall unable to attend the university of Maryland?

Answer 15

They did not accept black students

Question 16

What did the Baltimore city court rule in 1935?

Answer 16

For Murray, to be admitted to the university of Maryland

Question 17

What did the Supreme Court rule in 19

Answer 17

For schools to be truly equal, same benefits, and except all students

Question 18

What high school was being desegregated in 1957

Answer 18

Central high school of Little Rock 

Question 19

What city and state was Central high school in?

Answer 19

Little Rock, Arkansas

Question 20

How many black students were trying to integrate into Little Rock high school?

Answer 20

Nine

Question 21

What was the role of the Arkansas national guard?

Answer 21

Surround the school and prevent them from entering

Question 22

What Supreme Court case outlawed segregation in public

Answer 22

Brown versus board

Question 23

What year did Brown versus Board occur in?

Answer 23

1954

Question 24

What 18 96 case was overturned

Answer 24

Plus versus Ferguson

Question 25

What did this case allow?

Answer 25

Separate but equal

Question 26

How long was the highway system?

Answer 26

41,000 through 47,000

Question 27

what two reasons did Eisenhower build the system?

Answer 27

National defense in to Boone, the economy

Question 28

Post Ward trials of Nazi leaders charged with crimes against peace in war were called

Answer 28

Nuremberg

Question 29

Massive economic assistance program by the US after Europe after World War II

Answer 29

Marshall plan

Question 30

Period of height in military tension between the US and USSR after World War II

Answer 30

Cold War

Question 31

US policy limiting the spread of communism around the world was called

Answer 31

Containment

Question 32

Idea that stated the US would fight communism wherever it appeared in using us troops

Answer 32

 Truman doctrine

Question 33

Term describing that if one country fell to communism, the neighboring country would fall to communism

Answer 33

Domino theory

Question 34

In 1947 what two countries in southeast Europe, received military and economic age to prevent them from coming communist

Answer 34

Grease in Turkey

Question 35

In 1947 US help break up strikes in which country to prevent it from becoming communist

Answer 35

France

Question 36

In 1948, which country did the US steal elections to prevent from becoming comm

Answer 36

Italy

Question 37

System of dropping food and supplies by air into the West Berlin by US in Britain from 1948 to 1949

Answer 37

Berlin airlift

Question 38

How long did this Berlin airlift of supplies last?

Answer 38

14 months

Question 39

Threatening to use for spice, stopping short of war was called

Answer 39

Brinkmanship

Question 40

What organization’s purpose is it to maintain international peace and security?

Answer 40

United Nations

Question 41

What country exploded in atomic bomb in 1949

Answer 41

Soviet Union

Question 42

A military alliance of western European nations and the US created in 1949 is

Answer 42

NATO

Question 43

A military alliance of eastern Europe, nations in the USSR was called

Answer 43

Warsaw Pact

Question 44

In what year did the communist take control of China?

Answer 44

1949

Question 45

On April 12, 1955 Apex scene which was used against what disease was declared safe and effective

Answer 45

Polio

Question 46

Who was the Doctor Who developed the polio vaccine

Answer 46

Salk

Question 47

In December 19 55, which woman was arrested for refusing to leave the white section of bus

Answer 47

Rosa Parks

Question 48

To protest Bus segregation in Montgomery African-American organized a

Answer 48

Bus boycott

Question 49

How long did the bus boycott last in Montgomery?

Answer 49

Over a yar

Question 50

 the Middle East took on greater importance of the US and the 1950s because

Answer 50

The US needed mid east oil

Question 51

The CIA lead a coupe in what middle eastern country in 1953

Answer 51

Iran

Question 52

Which American helped organize a coupe of this country

Answer 52

Kermit Roosevelt