809 Q2 - Changing Frontiers Flashcards
What organization did the United States organize for space research?
NASA
What group of people did not enjoy the prosperity of the 1950s?
Minorities
The proposal to allow the Soviets in the Americans to inspect each other’s military bases from the air
open skies
Who was the communist leader of Cuba?
Fidel Castro
The movement to force the government to give blacks the same treatment as whites is known as what?
The Civil Rights movement
The last two states added to the Union were what?
Hawaii and Alaska
Who organized the truce that resolved the Suez Canal crisis?
The United Nations
Which two governments did the CIA replace in the 1950s?
Iran and Guatemala
Who began a bus boycott by not giving up her seat?
Rosa Parks
The competition to increase the number of weapons held by each country was known as what?
The arms race
Who was the Soviet premier during Eisenhower’s administration?
Nikita Khrushchev
The Civil rights movement achieved a victory when what happened in Little Rock, AR?
Schools were desegregated
Which president tried to ease tensions between the US and the Soviet Union through the Open Skies Policy?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
When did the Space Race begin?
The Soviet Launch of Sputnik
Who was the U-2 plane pilot that was shot down over the Soviet Union?
Francis Gary Powers
The competition to build larger and more powerful spacecraft was known as what?
The Space Race
What Secretary of State practiced brinkmanship?
John Foster Dulles
The domino theory stated what?
When one country fell to communism, another would follow
Getting as close to war as possible without actually starting open combat is known as what?
Brinkmanship
Who was the Egyptian premier who tried to take control of the Suez Canal?
Gamel Nasser
Who was the civil rights leader who supported non-violent protests?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Cold War policy that stating that neither country was likely to use its nuclear weapons for fear of being destroyed was known as what?
MAD
In the ruling “Brown vs Board of Education” it said that “Seperate vs. Equal” was what?
unconstitutional
