1950s and 1960s

This bingo card has a free space and 32 words: Barrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin and during the period from 1961 to 1989, U.S. Congressman conducted investigations into alleged communist activities., Argued Brown v. Board and became the first African American Supreme Court Justice, Rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European countries in order to contain communism, Gave more power to President Johnson to use all measures to fight in Vietnam, Political demonstration held in Washington, D.C., in 1963 by civil rights leaders to protest racial discrimination, Soviet Union blockaded West Berlin. American planes dropped food and supplies, Segregation in practice: red lining, Enabled WWII veterans to obtain grants for school and college tuition, low-interest mortgage and small-business loans, job training, hiring privileges, and unemployment benefits, Invasion of Cuba to attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro as leader, Legally ended discrimination based on race, color, religion, or national origin, Political protests against segregation by blacks and whites who rode buses together through the American South in 1961., Post WWII military alliance in the North Atlantic, First group of black students who integrated Little Rock High School, Investigations and hearings during the 1950s in an effort to expose supposed communist infiltration of various areas of the U.S. government, Shocked many Americans, who had assumed that their country was technologically ahead of the Soviet Union, and led to the “space race” between the two countries., Prohibited Southern states from using literacy tests to determine eligibility to vote, 1964 voter registration drive aimed at increasing the number of registered Black voters in Mississippi, Led to a 1956 U.S. Supreme Court decision declaring that Montgomery’s segregation laws on buses were unconstitutional, Funded the construction of more than 40,000 miles of roads in America in 1956, Major confrontation that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to war over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba., Prohibited the federal and state governments from imposing poll taxes before a citizen could participate in a federal election, African American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam who articulated concepts of race pride and Black nationalism in the early 1960s, Created to work for the abolition of segregation and discrimination in housing, education, employment, voting, and transportation; to oppose racism; and to ensure African Americans their constitutional rights., Fear of communism infiltrating America, Competition between the Soviet Union and United States to see who could dominate in space, Lyndon Johnson's plan to end poverty and injustice in America, Organization with the philosophy of nonviolent social change led by Dr. King, While in jail Dr. King wrote a letter to support the use of using jail as a tactic for change, Taught children to prepare for nuclear war, Ended segregation in public schools in America and Supported sit-ins, freedom rides and the march on Washington.

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