8th Grade History Test 11

Question 1

introduced mass-production of low-cost housing in the 1940s

Answer 1

Levitt and Sons

Question 2

won the Yom Kippur War in 1973

Answer 2

Israel

Question 3

President Johnson called his social welfare program the

Answer 3

Great Society

Question 4

Jonas Salk developed a vaccine for

Answer 4

polio

Question 5

negotiated the surrender of the Panama Canal Zone to the military dictator of Panama

Answer 5

President Carter

Question 6

Communists took over all of South Vietnam in what year

Answer 6

1975

Question 7

Israel won/lost the Six-Day War in 1967 against Egypt, Jordan, and Syria

Answer 7

won

Question 8

Marian Anderson was a great black American ___ who used her talent and influence to peacefully bring about change.

Answer 8

opera singer

Question 9

the first black major-league baseball player

Answer 9

Jackie Robinson

Question 10

amendment that lowered the voting age from 21 to 18

Answer 10

26th

Question 11

amendment that did away with poll taxes

Answer 11

24th

Question 12

act that prohibited racial discrimination in all public places

Answer 12

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Question 13

year the United States put a man on the moon

Answer 13

1969

Question 14

the Communist leader of North Vietnam

Answer 14

Ho Chi Minh

Question 15

the United States fought the Vietnam War between

Answer 15

1965 and 1973

Question 16

country that signed the SALT I treaty with the United States

Answer 16

Soviet Union

Question 17

U.S. President who was the first to resign from office

Answer 17

Nixon

Question 18

the President who was the first man from the Deep South to win the Presidency since Zachary Taylor in 1848

Answer 18

Carter

Question 19

Communist dictator who took over Cuba in 1959

Answer 19

Fidel Castro

Question 20

negotiated the cease-fire in Vietnam

Answer 20

Henry Kissinger

Question 21

held anti-Communist hearings in Congress

Answer 21

Joseph McCarthy

Question 22

passed State Department secrets to a Soviet agent

Answer 22

Alger hiss

Question 23

negotiated the Camp David Peace Accords

Answer 23

James “Jimmy” Carter

Question 24

sold nuclear information to the Russians

Answer 24

Julius Rosenberg

Question 25

assassinated Robert F. Kennedy

Answer 25

Sirhan Biashara Sirhan

Question 26

Soviet leader who met with President Eisenhower at the 1955 Geneva Summit in Switzerland

Answer 26

Nikita Khrushchev

Question 27

case in which the Supreme Court ruled to legalize abortion

Answer 27

Roe vs. Wade

Question 28

the city divided by a barbed wire fence and later a solid wall to keep people from escaping Communism

Answer 28

Berlin

Question 29

President Kennedy called his welfare program the

Answer 29

New Frontier

Question 30

Egyptian President who seized the Suez Canal from Great Britain in 1956

Answer 30

Abdel Nasser

Question 31

Presidet Kennedy was assassinated while visiting the city of

Answer 31

Dallas (TX)

Question 32

the leading figure of the civil rights movement was a young black minister named

Answer 32

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Question 33

first American to orbit the earth

Answer 33

John Glenn

Question 34

first black Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

Answer 34

Thurgood Marshall

Question 35

first American to fly in space

Answer 35

Alan B. Shepard, jr.

Question 36

first man to walk on the moon

Answer 36

Neil Armstrong

Question 37

first black American to achieve the rank of four-star general in the U. S. Army

Answer 37

Daniel “Chappie” James

Question 38

Vice President who succeeded Nixon

Answer 38

Gerald R. Ford

Question 39

prominent black supremacist leader

Answer 39

Malcolm X

Question 40

first black American cabinet officer

Answer 40

Robert Weaver

Question 41

the name of America’s first satellite, launched in 1958

Answer 41

Explorer I

Question 42

led the movement to have prayer and Bible reading banned from the public schools

Answer 42

Madalyn Murray O’Hair

Question 43

the group of liberal lawyers who began in the 1960’s to use the courts to limit public references to Christianity

Answer 43

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

Question 44

act that passed in 1968 that prohibited discrimination in renting or selling houses

Answer 44

Fair Housing Act

Question 45

the civil rights leader who was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee

Answer 45

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Question 46

the incident in 1964 that gave President Johnson reason or “excuse” to increase U.S. military presence in South Vietnam

Answer 46

Gulf of Tonkin

Question 47

the monopoly formed by oil-producing nations of the Middle East to control the supply and price of oil

Answer 47

OPEC

Question 48

the scandal that forced President Nixon to resign from office in 1974

Answer 48

Watergate Affair

Question 49

How did television influence the McCarthy hearings and the election of 1960

Answer 49

The American public was in agreement with McCarthy until the television broadcasts of the Army hearings. Although his views were correct, McCarthy seemed sarcastic and stern.

Kennedy and Nixon debated on television in 1960. Nixon, ahead in the polls at the time, seemed unsure of himself. Those listening by radio said Nixon won the debates. But because television had greater impact, Kennedy won the election.

Question 50

Identify locations on the map of South America.

Answer 50

Brazil
Tierra del Fuego
Colombia
Falkland islands
Cerro Aconcagua
Amazon River