Quiz on Unit 25

Question 1

Investigated organized crime

Answer 1

Kefauver Committee

Question 2

Leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin

Answer 2

Nikita Khrushchev

Question 3

Upheld “separate but equal” practice

Answer 3

Plessy V. Ferguson

Question 4

Said separate was inherently unequal

Answer 4

Brown v. Board of Ed (1954)

Question 5

Candidate for GOP presidential nomination in 1952 but lost out to Eisenhower

Answer 5

Robert Taft

Question 6

Became Communist leader of Cuba in 1950

Answer 6

Fidel Castro

Question 7

Focus of 1957 and 1960 Federal civil rights laws

Answer 7

Voting rights

Question 8

Hungary, 1956

Question 9

Declared Communist government in North Vietnam in 1945

Answer 9

Ho Chi Minh

Question 10

Scene of 1956 conflict over the Suez Canal

Answer 10

Egypt

Question 11

Russian satellite launched October 4, 1957

Answer 11

Sputnik

Question 12

Inter-continental ballistic missile

Answer 12

ICBM

Question 13

Labor organizations that merged in 1955

Answer 13

AFL and CIO

Question 14

When U.S.S.R. shot down U.S. spy plane

Answer 14

U-2 incident

Question 15

Her actions began Montgomery Bus Boycott

Answer 15

Rosa Parks

Question 16

Got increased Federal funding after Sputnik

Answer 16

Public education

Question 17

Transportation project begun by Eisenhower

Answer 17

Interstate Highway System

Question 18

Dramatic school integration crisis in 1957

Answer 18

Little Rock

Question 19

Democratic presidential nominee in 1952 and 1956

Answer 19

ADlai Stevenson

Question 20

Took over space program from the military

Answer 20

NASA