1. How did the Cold War develop 1945-1950 and how did this increase
fears and suspicion of communism?
2. What was HUAC and why was it created?
7. What was ‘McCarthyism’ and what
methods did McCarthy use?
3. Who were the Hollywood Ten?
How did the Red
Scare change
America?
6. How and why did opposition to McCarthy
grow?
5. What happened in the Rosenberg Case?
4. What happened in the Hiss Case?
1. How did the Jim Crow laws and Plessy v Ferguson enforce
segregation?
2. Why were black people
prevented from voting?
3. What happened during the Montgomery Bus
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’
Movement?
2. Who were the ‘Freedom Riders’?
3. Why were the Birmingham and Washington Marches of
1963 so significant?
4. What happened during the Selma to
Montgomery (1965) and James Meredith
March (1966)?
8. Why were there race riots in the late
1960s?
How did the Civil Rights
movement develop in
the 1960s?
7. What was the Black Power movement and
who were the Black Panthers?
6. Who was Malcom X and how was his
beliefs different to MLK?
5. What did the Civil Rights Act AND Voting Rights Act
achieve?
1. Why did protest movements grow in the 1950s and
1960s?
2. Why did students protest against the
Vietnam War?
7. Why was there opposition to the Women’s
Liberation movement?
3. Who were SDS and who were the ‘hippies’?
4. What happened during the Berkeley, Columbia
and Kent State university protests?
How and why did
students and
women protest?
6. What was the Women’s Liberation Movement and
how did NOW campaign for women’s rights?
5. How did Eleanor Roosevelt and Betty Friedan
campaign for women’s rights?
1. What was CREEP and what happened
during the break-in?
2. What role did the Washington Post play?
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?
3. Describe the key events of the Watergate
Break-In and trial.