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Question 1

What is the CIA?

Answer 1

The Central Intelligence Agency

Question 2

What man orchestrated the CIA action in Iran?

Answer 2

Kermit Roosevelt

Question 3

What was Iran’s original name

Answer 3

Persia

Question 4

When was a revolt against the British in Iran and what was its result?

Answer 4

1951, Mohamad Mossadegn became Prime Minister

Question 5

Who was placed on the throne after Shah Reza was removed by the British and the Soviets?

Answer 5

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

Question 6

Who was the first Shah of Iran and what was his position?

Answer 6

Reza Pahlavi, cavalry officer (khan)

Question 7

What was the Shah’s family name changed to?

Answer 7

Phlavi

Question 8

When and why did the first Shah fall from power?

Answer 8

During WWII. The British wanted control over Iran.

Question 9

What was the CIA’s original role?

Answer 9

Gathering intelligence

Question 10

What new role did the CIA have under the Eisenhower administer?

Answer 10

Cover and Ops.

Question 11

What four positive reforms did the Shah make in Iran?

Answer 11

Socioeconomic reforms, promoted education, improved social welfare services, gave women the right to vote.

Question 12

What CIA action followed its action in Iran?

Answer 12

An overthrow of Guatemala’s government.

Question 13

How did the British treat Iran during WWII and immediately after?

Answer 13

As a colony. They took Iran’s oil and profited off of it.

Question 14

How was the Shah restored to real power?

Answer 14

A CIA lead coup.

Question 15

Who opposed the Shah?

Answer 15

Students, Conservative muslims.

Question 16

Why was Shah Reza forced from the throne in Iran?

Answer 16

Iran had previously been allied to Germany in WWI.

Question 17

What caused the Iranians to seize the American embassy?

Answer 17

The U.S. did not hand the Shah over to Iran for trial.

Question 18

Why was the court case named “Brown vs. the Board of Education?”

Answer 18

Because Brown was the first in Alphabetical order of suits that marshall was using.

Question 19

Why was it hard for blacks to win medals in the military before the Korean War?

Answer 19

They were only allowed non-combat roles.

Question 20

What was “separate but equal?”

Answer 20

The idea that Blacks and whites would have segregated facilities that were equal in quality. In reality that didn’t happen.

Question 21

Who was Thurgood Marshall?

Answer 21

An attorney for the NAACP around Brown vs Education.

Question 22

Who was Earl Warren?

Answer 22

Supreme Court Justice under Ike.

Question 23

Which Supreme Court cheif justice overturned the idea of “separate but equal?”

Answer 23

Earl Warren.

Question 24

Who was Rosa Parks?

Answer 24

A lady who was ordered to the back of a bus because she was black, she refused and MLK took the lead in protest

Question 25

Who was Martin Luther King, Jr?

Answer 25

The pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church.

Question 26

How did Christianity affect Martin Luther King’s approach to racism?

Answer 26

He wanted to use Christian principles in protest of it.

Question 27

What two men influenced Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s idea of nonviolent protest??

Answer 27

Ghandi, Thoreau.

Question 28

What were the two principles of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s strategy?

Answer 28

non-violence, civil disobedience.

Question 29

What decision was made in Brown II?

Answer 29

That the states must move to comply with the order with all deliberate speed.

Question 30

Who were the “Dixiecrats”

Answer 30

southern democrats

Question 31

Who was Orville Faubus?

Answer 31

The Governor of AR who tried to stop black students from attending a white school in AR.

Question 32

Why did Eisenhower send in Federal troops into Little Rock, AR?

Answer 32

Because AR wasn’t cooperating with the supreme court.

Question 33

What was Sputnik?

Answer 33

The first artificial satellite

Question 34

Why did sputnik and sputnik II shock America so much?

Answer 34

If they could send up satellites, they could send missiles

Question 35

Who or what was Laika?

Answer 35

A dog sent into space by the Russians.

Question 36

How did science fiction change in the 50’s to reflect American culture?

Answer 36

It began to focus on space.

Question 37

What was blamed for the superiority of Soviet advance in science and technology?

Answer 37

Te educational system that it had compared to ours.

Question 38

How did America respond to the Space Race?

Answer 38

Nuke drills, education reforms, space developments.

Question 39

How did Eisenhower feel about the military?

Answer 39

He thought that It was becoming too large.

Question 40

Who was Ruth Handler?

Answer 40

Designer of Barbie.

Question 41

What two problems did Barbie have?

Answer 41

Too sexual, unrealistic body measurements

Question 42

What movie star was the first in Playboy magazine?

Answer 42

Marilyn Monroe.

Question 43

What three social events changed sexuality in America in the 50’s?

Answer 43

Barbie, Playboy, Elvis

Question 44

What two major problems were occurring in the late 1940’s and 1950’s?

Answer 44

Communism and the civil rights movement.