Exam 4

Question 1

JFK ran against __________, but won the election because he performed better on the televised debate. he also promised to give equality back to the African Americans.

Answer 1

Nixon

Question 2

__________ became an issue in JFK’s administration because they were __________. This messes up his plans.

Answer 2

Cuba, communist

Question 3

the ______________ was when the US started training Cuban nationalists to try to overthrow the government. They invaded Cuba, but overall it was a disaster.

Answer 3

Bay of Pigs Invasions

Question 4

_________________Was a unanimous decision to desegregate schools. Southern states move very slowly with this process

Answer 4

Brown v Board of Education

Question 5

____________ Sat in the front of the bus and was arrested because black people were supposed to sit in the back
She was arrested for this. This led to the ____________. This propels MLK, and he was a leader of the bus boycott

Answer 5

Rosa Parks, Montgomery bus boycott

Question 6

the battle of ______________ was when the French were defeated and gave up control of Vietnam

Answer 6

Dien Bien Phu

Question 7

Communism was already starting to spread in Northern Vietnam
The US decided they needed to get involved to stop the _______________

Answer 7

spread of communism

Question 8

__________ sent money to the people in Vietnam
_________ sent “advisors”
These people were fighting
________ escalated the war beginning in 1965. Vietnam was divided at the 17th parallel

Answer 8

Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ

Question 9

The US was ____________, meaning they were brought together by objecting over the war

Answer 9

Galvinized

Question 10

Before the election of 1968, Democrats went to __________ to tell him that he shouldn’t run for reelection. ___________ was one of the candidates for Democrats, but he was assassinated.

Answer 10

LBJ, RFK

Question 11

also in 1968, the __________ was still going on. MLK was assassinated this year as well
Nixon ended up winning the election because the Republicans were more stable at the time

Answer 11

Civil Rights movement

Question 12

In __________’s first term, NASA was trying to push to get men into orbit on the moon, so they sent Apollo 8. It failed but ___________ eventually landed on the moon

Answer 12

Nixon, Apollo 11

Question 13

Nixon claimed he was going to scale down the war, but instead ended up escalating the war The US invaded ___________ and __________, and protests increased

Answer 13

Cambodia and Laos

Question 14

at ____________ university, National Guard opened fire on the college students who were protesting the war

Answer 14

Kent State

Question 15

After the Kent State University incident, Nixon started the ______________ program, which trained the Vietnamese soldiers to fight for themselves so that the Americans could pull out of the war. This allowed Nixon to win reelection

Answer 15

Vietnamization

Question 16

Americans pulled out of the war in 1973. Due to this, the __________ took over Vietnam in 1975

Answer 16

communists

Question 17

The democratic national headquarters was in the ____________ hotel. Nixon had people break into the headquarters and install listening devices so that he could strategize

Answer 17

Watergate

Question 18

The people had to break in again because the listening devices were malfunctioning, they eventually got arrested
People didn’t connect these men to __________ until a year later. They found out that the people were part of the committee for the reelection of Nixon

Answer 18

Nixon

Question 19

Congress became interested and they found that Nixon had tapes, but Nixon gave them the _____________.They went to the Supreme Court to get the real version of the tapes. Congress begins to talk about impeachment, but Nixon resigned first

Answer 19

edited versions

Question 20

Usually, the VP was the next president, but he resigned before Nixon did. The first thing he did was pardon ___________.The reason Ford did this was because he didn’t want people to come after Nixon, and he didn’t want constant chaos. This made him really unpopular

Answer 20

Nixon

Question 21

In Jimmy Carter’s administration, there was ___________ inflation
Oil-producing countries were slowing production, and there was a _________ shortage
There was a rule that you could only get gas every other day

Answer 21

extremely high, gas

Question 22

After the ________ invaded Afghanistan The US started sending weapons to them. The US boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics in ____________
This led to the lowest rates ever. The Soviets lost a ton of money

Answer 22

soviets, moscow

Question 23

___________ took 19 Americans hostage for 444 days. Carter tried to send a rescue mission, but the helicopters crashed and died.
Carter lost to __________ and then Iran released the hostages

Answer 23

Iran, Ronald Reagan