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History
Unit 13- FINAL
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Space Race? | 20th century competition between the USA and USSR to achieve superior spaceflight capabilities |
| What is arms race? | the USA and USSR overproducing weapons and nuclear weapons during the Cold War to ensure that neither side would attack the other outright |
| What was founded in 1958 in response to the Soviet’s success in Sputnik | NASA |
| What act provided federal funds for education for those who had a high aptitude for science and engineering | National Defense Education Act, provided federal funds for education for those who had a high aptitude for science and engineering |
| a plant near the Georgia Border that manufactured radioactive materials to go into nuclear weapons | Savannah River Site |
| What president created NDEA | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| What was the Civil Rights movement? | nonviolent social movement peaking in the 1950s and 1960s, aimed at ending legal racial discrimination, and segregation against Black Americans |
| What decorated South Carolina WWII Vet was blinded following a racially motivated beating | Isaac Woodard |
| a non-violent form of protest in Rock Hill in which African Americans sat in a place that was still segregated until they were removed or the place became desegregated | Friendship Nine |
| Who was Sarah Mae Flemming? | SC's “Rosa Parks” was arrested for sitting down on a bus. She sued the bus company and won because Brown v. Board of Education stated that segregation was also illegal on public transportation |
| What is Brown vs. Board of Education? | black Students wanted equal accomodations- they sued and won which overturned Plessy v Ferguson and outlawed segregation in Public Schools in 1954 |
| What court case against the Clarendon County School Board defended by Thurgood Marshall– the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled against them, but in the appeal the USSC picked up the case and it became a part of Brown v. Board of Education. | Briggs vs Elliott |