1. How did the Cold War develop 1945-1950 and how did this increase 2.

2. What was HUAC and why was it created?

fears and suspicion of communism?

7. What was ‘McCarthyism’ and what 3. Who were the Hollywood Ten?
methods did McCarthy use?

How did the Red

Scare change
America?

5. What happened in the Rosenberg Case? 4. What happened in the Hiss Case?
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6. How and why did opposition to McCarthy
grow?
1. How did the Jim Crow laws and Plessy v Ferguson enforce 2. Why were black people 3. What happened during the Montgomery Bus
segregation? prevented from voting? Boycott?

6. How significant was Martin Luther King to

the Civil Rights Movement and what methods
did he use?

How did the Civil Rights

movement develop in
the 1950s?

5. What happened at Little Rock? 4. Why was the Brown v Topeka case so
significant?
1. How successful was the ‘Sit-in’ 2. Who were the ‘Freedom Riders’? 3. Why were the Birmingham and Washington Marches of
Movement? 1963 so significant?

8. Why were there race riots in the late 4. What happened during the Selma to
1960s? Montgomery (1965) and James Meredith
March (1966)?

How did the Civil Rights

movement develop in
the 1960s?

7. What was the Black Power movement and 6. Who was Malcom X and how was his 5. What did the Civil Rights Act AND Voting Rights Act
who were the Black Panthers? beliefs different to MLK? achieve?
1. Why did protest movements grow in the 1950s and 2. Why did students protest against the 3. Who were SDS and who were the ‘hippies’?
1960s? Vietnam War?

7. Why was there opposition to the Women’s 4. What happened during the Berkeley, Columbia
Liberation movement? and Kent State university protests?

How and why did

students and
women protest?

6. What was the Women’s Liberation Movement and 5. How did Eleanor Roosevelt and Betty Friedan
how did NOW campaign for women’s rights? campaign for women’s rights?
1. What was CREEP and what happened 2. What role did the Washington Post play? 3. Describe the key events of the Watergate
during the break-in? Break-In and trial.

5. What was the impact of Watergate on

Nixon and US politics?

What was so
significant about
Watergate?

4. What were the most significant events in Nixon’s

downfall?