Test 11, Chapters 21-22 Flashcards
Who introduced mass-production of low-cost housing in the 1940s?
Levitt and Sons
What country won the Yom Kippur War in 1973?
Israel
President Johnson called his social welfare program the ____
great society
Jonas Salk developed a vaccine for ____
polio
President ____ negotiated the surrender of the Panama Canal Zone to the military dictator of Panama.
Carter
Communists took over all of South Vietnam in what year?
1975
Did Israel win or lose the Six-Day War in 1967 against Egypt, Jordan, and Syria?
win
Marian Anderson was a great black American ____ who used her talent and influence to peacefully bring about change.
opera singer
who was the first black major-league baseball player
Jackie Robinson
which amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18?
26th
which amendment did away with poll taxes?
24th
what act prohibited racial discrimination in all public places?
civil right act of 1964
in what year did the US put a man on the moon?
1969
who was the communist leader of North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
The US fought the Vietnam War between what years?
1965 - 1973
What country signed the SALT I treaty with the US
Soviet Union
which US President was the first to resign from office?
Nixon
which president was the first man from the deep south to win the presidency since Zachary Taylor in 1848?
Carter
what communist dictator took over cuba in 1959?
Fidel Castro
negotiated the cease-fire in Vietnam
Henry Kissinger
held anti-Communist hearings in congress
Joseph McCarthy
passed State Department secrets to a Soviet agent
Alger Hiss
negotiated the Camp David Peace Accords
Carter
sold nuclear information to the Russians
Julius Rosenberg
assassinated Robert F. Kennedy
Sirhan Biashara Sirhan
Soviet leader that met with Pres. Eisenhower at the 1955 Geneva Summit in Switzerland.
Nikita Khrushchev
In what case did the Supreme Court rule to legalize abortion.
Roe vs. Wade
What city was divided by a barbed wire fence and later a solid wall to keep people from escaping Communism
Berlin, Germany
What did Pres. Kennedy call his welfare program?
the New Frontier
What Egyptian Pres. seized the Suez Canal from Great Britain in 1956
Abdel Nasser
what city was Pres. Kennedy visiting when he was assassinated?
Dallas, TX
What young black minister was the leading figure of the civil rights movement?
Martin Luther King, JR.
first American to orbit the earth
John Glenn
first black Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
Thurgood Marshall
first American to fly in space
Alan B. Shepard, Jr.
first man to walk on the moon
Neil Armstrong
first black American to achieve the rank of 4 start general in the US Army
Daniel “Chappie” James
Vice President who succeeded Nixon
Gerald Ford
prominent black supremacist leader
Malcolm X
first black American cabinet officer
Robert Weaver
America’s first satellite, launched in 1958.
Explorer I
Who led the movement to have prayer and Bible reading banned from the public schools?
Madalyn Murray O’Hair
the group of liberal lawyers who began in the 1960’s to use the courts to limit public references to Christianity
ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)
What act passed in 1968 prohibited discrimination in renting or selling houses?
Fair Housing Act
Name the civil rights leader who was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis, TN
Martin Luther King, Jr.
What incident in 1964 gave Pres. Johnson reason or “excuse” to increase US military presence in South Vietnam?
Gulf of Tonkin
Name the monopoly formed by oil-producing nations of the Middle East to control the supply and price of oil.
OPEC
What scandal forced Pres. Nixon to resign from office in 1974?
Watergate Affair
How did television influence the McCarthy hearings and the election of 1960?
The Am. public was in agreement with McCarthy until the TV broadcasts of the Army hearings. Although his views were correct, McCarthy seemed sarcastic and stern.
Kennedy and Nixon debated on TV 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 TV had the greater impact, Kennedy won the election.
know the following locations:
Brazil, Tierra del Fuego, Colombia, Falkland Islands, Cerro Aconcagua, Amazon River
