people

Question 1

LBJ’s opponent.Republican presidential nominee in 1964 argued that more needed to be done in So Vietnam in order to contain communism.

Answer 1

barry goldwater

Question 2

pres in 1950s

Answer 2

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 3

leader of Rev. army in cuba

Answer 3

Fidel Castro

Question 4

became Nixon’s VP in 69, took over as pres in 74

Answer 4

Gerald Ford

Question 5

Worked to gain indep from France in Vietnam. He was Vietnamese leader of procommunist rebels and became No Vietnam pres.

Answer 5

Ho Chi Minh

Question 6

elected in 76, promised to improve econ and educ, assist poor and aging

Answer 6

Jimmy Carter

Question 7

won 1960 election, assass in 63

Answer 7

John F. Kennedy

Question 8

WI senator who held parole hearings accusing people of communism

Answer 8

Joseph McCarthy

Question 9

accused of giving info about atomic bomb to soviet union

Answer 9

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Question 10

assass JFK

Answer 10

Lee Harvey Oswald

Question 11

soviet leader during nixon’s pres, joined in detente

Answer 11

Leonid Brezhnev

Question 12

efforts in civil rights and the War on Poverty.

Answer 12

Lyndon Johnson

Question 13

black muslim leader who promoted black pride and self-reliance

Answer 13

Malcolm X

Question 14

took control of china in 1949, communist

Answer 14

Mao Zedong

Question 15

helped desegregate the bus system. was a preacher who ledthe civil rights movement with non-violent tactics

Answer 15

Martin Luther King, Jr

Question 16

came to power in soviet union in 85, wanted reform

Answer 16

Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 17

early corrupt leader of south vietnam.

Answer 17

Ngo Dinh Diem

Question 18

took over from stalin as soviet leader in 1953, more moderate

Answer 18

Nikita Khrushchev

Question 19

opponent to JFK, then won 1968 election, the “law and order” pres

Answer 19

Richard Nixon

Question 20

elected pres in 1980, was CA governor. his goal was to reduce fed gov and shift balance of polit power bk to states

Answer 20

Ronald Reagan

Question 21

refused to give up her seat on the bus

Answer 21

Rosa Parks

Question 22

became first female supreme court justice

Answer 22

Sandra Day O’Connor

Question 23

nixon’s first VP

Answer 23

Spiro Agnew

Question 24

SNCC leader who encouraged blacks to become indep of white society

Answer 24

Stokely Carmichael